Desert birds lay larger eggs when they have more helpers to feed their chicks, new research shows. Read The Full…
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In 2024, the youngest of Japan’s baby boomers will turn 75. The boomers are called the “bunched” generation in Japan…
Chinese astronauts recently captured the first clear shot of the completed Tiangong space station as they were leaving the orbiting…
Light pollution, or artificial light at night (ALAN), is a rapidly growing threat to nocturnal wildlife around the world, particularly…
Emulating the pulsating action of the human heart could increase the efficiency of everything from oil pipelines to central heating…
Whatever your area of interest, it would seem sensible to learn from the best. Recent research disagrees, finds David Robson…
The U.S. military’s elusive X-37B space plane has postponed its next launch by three days. Based on the rocket its…
Dec. 3, 2023: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles…
Rather than a slow, gradual process as Darwin envisioned, biologists can now see how evolutionary changes unfold on much more…
A quarter of a century after detecting dark energy, scientists are still trying to figure out what it is Read…
A strange type of glass that was discovered in 1933 in the Libyan desert may come from a meteorite, an…
Artificial intelligence models are getting bigger, along with the data sets used to train them. But scaling down could solve…
Days of mass death on Earth are dramatically captured by Michael Benton in his book, Extinctions. It's well-told and gripping,…
The Xuntian Space Telescope is China’s entry in a global race to unlock the secrets of dark energy, and it…
Outer space has a particular stench. But why? Read The Full Article Here
A projected drop in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions—one of the largest of the past decade—is still not enough to meet the country’s…
A Russian spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station, only to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere hours later as part…
Historically, only women’s drinking was considered a risk during pregnancy, but new research points to the role of fathers’ habits…
The World Health Organization caused an uproar last month when it held its first global summit on traditional and complementary…
Dozens of mating bats caught on video at a Dutch church reveal an unusual use for their “huge” penises Read…
Year-end debates about 2024 budgets have already begun across Canada, with cities like Waterloo and Ottawa proposing spikes in police…
Our best observations can’t come up with a single answer for how quickly the universe is expanding. Maybe that’s because…
New experimental evidence suggests that substances known as narrow-spectrum Wnt signaling inhibitors — which could have fewer side effects than…
Evidence shows our impact on the planet started long before 1950, the date chosen by the Anthropocene Working Group for…
The Red Planet has reached solar conjunction as its orbit takes it to the far side of the sun and…
A sophisticated attack on Bangladesh Bank left the world reeling as it became clear that the world's largest bank, the…
On its 50th anniversary, the standard model of particle physics remains an unfinished masterpiece. The quest to finally fill in…
A new study has found that the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT in the workplace entrenches biased language…
From Wi-Fi-connected home security systems to smart toilets, the so-called Internet of Things brings personalization and convenience to devices that…
Researchers have developed deep-learning algorithms that let users pick which sounds filter through their headphones in real time. Either through…