Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents side by side. You’d see a resemblance, but each generation would…
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Spaghetti cacio e pepe is made with black pepper and pecorino cheesemyViewPoint/Alamy Physicists have discovered the key to a consistently…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A series of more than 100 small earthquakes in Surrey in 2018 and 2019 might have…
This month, Mars will shine brighter than at any time since December 2022 as it reaches a point astronomers call…
The Palisades Fire advancing on homes in Los AngelesEthan Swope/Associated Press/Alamy Fast-moving wildfires in the Los Angeles area are burning…
The LZ detector is a set of three nested detectors meant to sense the smallest amounts of energy deposited by…
Restorers at a famous Gothic church in Germany have discovered a “huge fortune” that was hidden in the leg of…
Coloured transmission electron micrograph of H5N1 virus particlesScience Photo Library A person in Louisiana has died from a bird flu…
The full range comparison of the error rates for ammonia, butane, toluene and water. Credit: Korea Institute of Civil Engineering…
What it is: A marble statuetteWhere it is from: Alexandria, EgyptWhen it was made: Sometime between 332 and 150 B.C.,…
Artist’s impression of a group of Homo floresiensis with a freshly killed stegodon (Stegodon florensis insularis)MAURICIO ANTON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Severe…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Biologists at Indiana University Bloomington have shown that the surfaces of plant leaves are coated with…
We’ve all seen it, typically on television or on stage: A hypnotist selects a few members from the audience, and…
Air-conditioning units, which often use HFC gases, on a building in Shenyang, ChinaVisual China Group via Getty Images Emissions of…
Despite the arrival of 11 chicks last year and five new adults, the keepers can recognise the Humboldt penguins individually.…
A fault-tolerant quantum computer could be here by 2030, thanks to an invention called the “cat qubit,” named after the…
Refrigerators and freezers typically get their cooling power from environmentally harmful fluidsMint Images Limited/Alamy A new type of crystal could…
In July, heavy rains caused by Typhoon Gaemi flooded villages in central China’s Hunan province. Last year was China’s warmest…
Celestron has produced a decent stereo microscope with its Celestron Labs S10-60 model. Professionals agreed that the three-dimensional images produced…
Blinking may do more than just keep our eyes healthygaiamoments/Getty Images Blinking serves a crucial physiological function, by clearing debris…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX knocked out a midnight launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, but has a midnight Monday…
What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have…
Multiple copies of IBM’s quantum Flamingo chip can be connected togetherIBM IBM is planning to build the largest quantum computer…
A butterfly rests on the nose of assistant butterfly collector Edgar Emojong at the African Butterfly Research Institute (ABRI) in…
An astronomical observatory, gold tongues found in mummies, a sword inscribed with the name of pharaoh Ramesses II and a…
A white-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii) in the snowAUSLOOS Henry/Hemis/Alamy Days with snow covering the ground are set to become less…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain South Florida water managers approved a breeding program for an endangered Everglades sparrow that for decades…
Disagreements about research results aren’t often aired in the open, but this year saw its fair share of public scientific…
Humans use both speech and gestures to convey informationStanford University An artificial intelligence model can make virtual avatars gesture naturally…
Map of the Señora Group Enclosure. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2416321121 Harvard University-led researchers…