In some heavy atoms, like those of bismuth (pictured in crystalline form), electrons move at relativistic speedssavva_25/Shutterstock Albert Einstein’s theory…
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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,…
Indonesian astronomers have conducted a comprehensive study of an open cluster in the constellation Norma, known as NGC 6134. Results…
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius buried a vast collection of scrolls in ash and scorched them into solid black…
A cyborg cockroach with a suit for breathing underwaterNTU Singapore Swarms of cyborg insects controlled remotely via electrical implants can…
Roughly 27,500 years ago, a 15-year-old boy was brutally mauled by a bear in Arene Candide in what is now…
As I sip coffee in my Berlin apartment and fire a question at Google’s AI chatbot Gemini, it’s easy not…
Tracy Hutchinson has a rare mutation of the TP53 geneTracy Hutchinson I started to wonder if something funky was going…
Howdy, pards, here’s a quick roundup of the week’s science news: Moose, previously thought to be a transplanted species, are…
It takes a dozen or so hours for the mushroom to kick in. Then, the hallucinations are unlike any others…
Slow Gods by Claire North is the New Scientist Book Club’s read for July This is the story of the…
The two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela’s northern coast, killing more than 180 people, were an event known as a…
Thousands of previously undetected tiny earthquakes have revealed the edge of a miniature tectonic plate slamming into Alaska near the…