Visualisation showing the western boundary currents that form part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning CirculationNASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Buoy measurements…
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From space, Earth’s populated areas glow on the otherwise “black marble” of the planet at night. For decades, scientists assumed…
The patient: A 58-year-old woman in GreeceThe symptoms: The patient, who worked outdoors on a Greek island, developed pain around…
Light is both a wave and a particle, and we know it for sure nowAnna Bliokh/Getty Images The following is…
As the four Artemis astronauts approached a high point of their lunar mission—getting slung around the far side of the…
Artemis II has once again made history by carrying humans farther from Earth than ever before, surpassing the record of…
Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics are not a practical guideEntertainment Pictures/Alamy Super-intelligent artificial intelligence rising up and wiping out…
Tropical forests are hot, steamy places. But when large numbers of trees are cut down, they get even hotter. Our…
Quick factsWhat it is: RCW 86, a supernova remnantWhere it is: 8,000 light-years away, in the constellation CircinusWhen it was…
Dying stars can emit a powerful jet of radiation, as seen in an artist’s impressionStocktrek Images, Inc./Alamy Astronomers think they…
For over half a century, people in Central Africa have told tales of the fish seen climbing waterfalls, but these…
The Artemis II mission astronauts have released their first video messages from space, giving the public a glimpse of deep-space…
Howard Bloom has built a career on asking big, unsettling questions about how the world works. In The Case of the Sexual…
Artist’s reconstruction of the ancient ocean ecosystem preserved in the Jiangchuan biotaXiaodong Wang A huge and beautifully preserved suite of…
Take a typical fish out of the water and it won’t live long. It gets the oxygen it needs from…
Scientists have cured type 1 diabetes in mice, without long-term immune suppression.In type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks insulin-producing…
A tobacco plant has been modified to produce five psychedelic drugsAharoni lab, Weizmann Institute if Science Scientists have engineered tobacco…
On Wednesday three men and one woman are set to embark on the first crewed journey to the moon since…
NASA’s Artemis II mission remains on track for its planned April 1 launch, the space agency announced in a prelaunch…
Olive oil is part of a brain-boosting diet, but which kind is the best?Alexander Prokopenko/Shutterstock We’ve all absorbed the message…
The practice of states revising standards for how their schools teach history is developing a storied and often contentious history…
QUICK FACTSName: Tudor HeartWhat it is: A gold necklace with a red-enameled pendantWhere it is from: Warwickshire, central EnglandWhen it…
Luca Parmitano during a spacewalk on 9 July 2013ESA/NASA When the water reached my face, it spread over my nose…
A research team led by Prof. Boseok Kang at Sungkyunkwan University has uncovered the origin of polarity inversion, a long-standing…
Early spring is a perfect time to refresh our wellness toolkit. The days get longer, the weather gets warmer and…
The number of data centres is rapidly increasingJIM LO SCALZO/EPA/Shutterstock Data centres built to power AIs produce so much heat…
Clathrate hydrates are crystalline structures formed at the bottom of seafloors, created by water molecules trapping methane, carbon dioxide or…
Mars is out; the moon is in. And this time, we may be going there to stay.On Tuesday (March 24),…
Female sperm whales hold the newborn calf above water until it can swim on its ownProject CETI A sperm whale…
Medieval Ibiza was far from a quiet Mediterranean backwater. New DNA evidence shows that the island was part of a…