European astronomers have conducted optical and radio observations of an enigmatic radio source designated GRS 0917+75. As a result, they…
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Researchers have extracted DNA from a 50,000-year-old tooth belonging to an African antelope, setting a record for the oldest DNA…
From precision medicine to personalized job training, customizing interventions for individuals is often assumed to produce better outcomes than a…
Archaeologists have found five pairs of iron shackles at a 2,300-year-old Celtic site in France — a discovery that suggests…
Inside the cell nucleus, genes must be turned on and off with precision to regulate biological processes. The first models…
On April 6, the four crewmembers of NASA’s Artemis II mission swooped around the far side of the moon in…
Nature is beautiful, powerful and essential. But nature is not always gentle. The same biological world that gives rise to…
Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for…
A list of global space launches designed to calm cold war tensions and promote transparency has been missing from the…
At Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), conversations about diversity often center on supporting Hispanic/Latine students. New research from scholars at University of…
Researchers in China have announced a radical sodium metal battery (SMB) design that can fully charge in just four minutes…
In some heavy atoms, like those of bismuth (pictured in crystalline form), electrons move at relativistic speedssavva_25/Shutterstock Albert Einstein’s theory…
Continental aquatic ecosystems, such as lakes and reservoirs, occupy a small proportion of Earth’s surface but play a significant role…
Around 100,000 years ago, an early Homo sapiens man was probably stabbed in the face with a sharp stone tool…
Is What Is Life? still as impactful today? A scientist is supposed to write within his field of expertise as…
A new study published in the Journal of Helminthology by researchers from the Estonian University of Life Sciences and the…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Great Bahama Bank, Bahamas [23.547188707, -76.46352937]What’s in the photo? Submerged sandbanks and seagrass beds in shallow…
Bumblebees appear to like the taste of sugarDawn Monrose/Alamy Bees seem to show when they are pleased and like something,…
New research has revealed that water behaves differently when confined to spaces just one molecule thick. For the first time,…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is continuing to have a disruptive impact on ever more parts of humanity. But what does it…
Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of this primordial…
Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have—in collaboration with colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich—analyzed the complex…
A hefty “super Earth” lurking in one of the closest star systems to our planet may be much better suited…
Homo floresiensis was a small hominin that lived on the island of FloresLIONEL BRET/EURELIOS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The diminutive ancient humans…
Researchers from the University of Bergen have uncovered the remains of a 4,000-year-old child in a cave site on Norway’s…
Astronomers have spotted an ancient galaxy shining through the cosmic fog of the early universe, revealing a detailed view that…
A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it’s not really…
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun full operations for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), one…
Network latency in bitcoin mining is driving massive energy waste — the annual equivalent of the total generation capacity of…
A jungle huntsman spider during a speed testChristofer Clemente/University of the Sunshine Coast A huntsman spider found in Queensland, Australia,…