The Pacific Grebe is spending three weeks testing the FastRig sailNTS/Smart Green Shipping A tanker normally used to ship nuclear…
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A native bee visiting a Marri tree in WA’s South West. Credit: Kit Prendergast New Curtin University-led research has revealed…
Even though the invention of the wheel around 6,000 years ago revolutionized everything from transportation to pottery making, its exact…
Before now, no one had studied the brain before, during and after taking hormonal birth controlShutterstock / Krakenimages The largest…
E. coli bacteria exposed to production of each of the nine different new toxins (PT1-PT9) for 40 minutes showing different…
The earliest known animal to show evidence of an asymmetrical body lived over half a billion years ago in what…
Illustration of neuron activity in a rat’s brainConnect Images/Alamy Strengthening activity of some brainwaves in rats’ while they sleep improves…
A plastic microfiber found in the exhaled breath of a bottlenose dolphin is nearly 14 times smaller than a strand…
Following Christopher Columbus’ first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492, Spain and other European countries engaged in large-scale colonization that…
An ion trap helped create a quantum defect in two places at onceANDREW BROOKES, NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Exotic…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Think of flood prevention and you might imagine huge concrete dams, levees or the shiny Thames…
Scientists have unspooled the life history of an ice age baby who lived in southern Italy about 17,000 years ago,…
Being bullied when young seems to alter your brain structure for years to come – with different changes seen in…
Screenshots of www.sewagemap.co.uk focusing on rivers around Oxford. The brown lines are rivers and streams downstream of recent sewage spills.…
Scientists have assembled the most complete Tasmanian tiger genome to date from a century-old pickled head, providing a full DNA…
Claims about the sustainability of fish farms have been vastly overstatedVIKEN KANTARCI/AFP via Getty Images It has been claimed that…
Artist’s impression of the LISA space mission (red triangle) capturing gravitational waves (highly exaggerated) from two black holes. LISA will…
Shipwreck hunters have discovered the wreck of a British submarine that sank near Greece in 1943, solving an 81-year-old mystery…
The Tibetan plateauNicolas Marino/mauritius images GmbH/Alamy Climate change is raising winter temperatures faster than those of summer, especially in high-altitude…
A preliminary reconstruction shows the late antique church of Artaxata. Credit: University of Münster Archaeologists from the National Academy of…
William Housty’s grandparents taught him the sacred duty of preparing for the salmon’s arrival each year. Before the first silver…
Spear-throwing tools called atlatls allow humans to launch projectiles over great distances, but Neanderthals apparently never used them – and…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Communities across the world are facing two worsening crises: a climate crisis and a care crisis.…
It’s well known that vegetarians and vegans need to work a little harder to get their protein. Even popular meat…
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital was hit by Hurricane Milton earlier this weekDirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Wire/Alamy A children’s hospital…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Millions of people in the southeastern U.S. still are reeling from the catastrophic damage caused by…
A man developed a “breakdance bulge” on the top of his head after repeatedly practicing headspins, doctors report.The bulbous lump…
There are probably many more earthworm species than those that have been officially recognisedAndia / Alamy Tens of thousands of…
Track of the rover and 26 calibration sites in the hinterland and eastern Qilian Mountains. Credit: Geoderma (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2024.117046…
An enormous mass of charged solar particles will slam into our planet Thursday (Oct. 10), likely triggering a “severe” G4-class…