“Lucy,” our 3.2 million-year-old hominin relative, couldn’t run very fast, according to a new study. But modeling her running ability…
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Obesity rates in the US have begun fallingEvgeniya Pavlova/Getty Images For decades, rates of obesity in the US have climbed…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend on…
The patient: A 67-year-old woman in the U.K.The symptoms: The woman was scheduled for routine cataract surgery on her right…
Some quantum fields have an infinite amount of entanglement that can be takenJurik Peter/Shutterstock Entanglement is one of the most…
Pitchers and habit of Nepenthes pongoides. (a) Rosette pitcher of immature plant showing highly developed peristome column. (b) Pendent pitcher…
We finally know how a fault that gave rise to Denali, North America’s highest mountain, first formed.According to new research,…
Particles in ship exhaust inadvertently cause cloud brightening – some geoengineering projects would try to recreate this effectNASA’s Earth Obervatory…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Under pressure from customers and investors, many U.S. companies have pledged to voluntarily reduce their impact…
What it is: NGC 602, a star cluster.Where it is: 200,000 light-years distant in the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy.When it…
OpenAI announced a breakthrough achievement for its new o3 AI modelRokas Tenys / Alamy OpenAI’s new o3 artificial intelligence model…
To explore potential explanations for deep channels, or gullies, seen on Vesta, scientists used JPL’s Dirty Under-vacuum Simulation Testbed for…
Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. And…
The Drone Panic By Howard Bloom In the middle of November, roughly four weeks ago, the first of a deluge…
The stones that make up Stonehenge came from all over BritainHeritage Image Partnership Ltd /Alamy Stonehenge may have been built…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A coalition of environmental groups challenged California’s leading climate regulator on Wednesday, alleging that a recent…
Disease name: Fatal familial insomnia (FFI)Affected populations: The disease affects an estimated 1 to 2 people per million every year,…
The sand-grain-sized robots work cooperatively, similar to antsJeong Jae Wie et al. Swarms of tiny robots guided by magnetic fields…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Artificial light can wake sleeping fish and attract predators, changing nighttime coral reef communities, according to…
Over the past 50,000 years, humans have populated nearly every corner of the globe — and due to geographic barriers,…
Images and videos of airbrushed bodies come thick and fast on social mediamartin-dm/Getty Images On many social media sites, messaging…
A schematic illustration of the dynamic chemical functionalities in oriented nanoporous metal-organic framework thin film. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI:…
Name: Sutton Hoo helmetWhat it is: A decorated Anglo-Saxon metal helmet with a faceplateWhere it is from: Woodbridge, Suffolk, EnglandWhen…
A Red Cross worker spraying chlorine-based disinfectant in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2024MOISE KASEREKA/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A startup aiming to become Japan’s first private firm to put a satellite into orbit postponed…
We have only one example of biology forming in the universe — life on Earth. But what if life can…
Drill rig in Nebraska run by Natural Hydrogen Energy LLC, which established its first hydrogen borehole in 2019Viacheslav Zgonnik For…
Navarino, southern Greece. View through the ruins of a destroyed fortress overlooking the bay of Navarino and the lagoon of…
China’s space agency could be the first to bring samples from Mars to Earth, in a plan that would return…
The US Navy’s Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS HamptonMC2 Chase Stephens/U.S. Navy/Alamy The US Navy has a long wish…