One thousand years ago, people along Israel’s Mediterranean coast dug deeply enclosed plots in the sand, filled them with 80,000…
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The induced fit model of enzymes states that both the enzyme and its substrate change shape when they interact. Credit:…
Name: Labord’s chameleon (Furcifer labordi)Where it lives: Western MadagascarWhat it eats: Crickets, flies, locusts, grasshoppers and stick insectsWhy it’s awesome:…
Antarctic ice on 1 Jan 2024NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Earth’s climate isn’t easy to cool down – especially if you…
Nine years after the 2012 High Park Fire burned a stand of lodgepole pine that had been severely affected by…
Reference designs for a new kind of modular computer could be the gateway toward laptops and mini-PCs that are easily…
Farm waste could be turned into hydrogen fuelImageryBT/Shutterstock Hydrogen could be made using agricultural waste under a new production process…
Topological structures in the interference patterns of three water waves. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08384-y A team of physicists at…
In a fiery display, Kilauea volcano, on Hawaii’s Big Island, spewed a gigantic fountain of lava roughly 330 feet (100…
The pandemic may have changed people’s outlook on lifeDisobeyArt / Alamy The covid-19 pandemic gave older people in England a…
Biofluorescence is seen on an emperor bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea guilielmi) in the American Museum of Natural History’s collection. Credit: Rene Martin…
The sun is much more than a bright light in the sky. It’s a giant ball of burning gas that…
Artist’s impression of an asteroid nearing the moonNASA/JPL-Caltech Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on a potential crash course with Earth, but…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The annual watchdog report tasked to gauge NASA safety commended the agency’s handling of last year’s…
The moon may still be geologically active, judging from the way the lunar far side is wrinkling as the moon…
The robotic arm at different stages of activationWei et al An origami-inspired robot arm made with material from cotton plants…
All animals live in or seek a set of climate conditions they find tolerable. This “climate envelope” partially determines where…
Name: Mount Kaputar pink slug (Triboniophorus sp. nov. ‘Kaputar’ or Triboniophorus aff. graeffei)Where it lives: Mount Kaputar, New South Wales,…
Artist’s illustration of the large-scale structure of the universeScience Photo Library/Alamy Astronomers have found the largest known structure in the…
Credit: Pexels/Martin Damboldt Heavy metals naturally occur in the Earth’s crust, but human activities can increase their concentration in the…
A second type of bird flu has been detected among dairy cows in the United States, the U.S. Department of…
Koalas are usually regarded as solitary animals, but new footage is revealing a more gregarious side. Darcy Watchorn at Deakin University,…
Schematic representation of mRNA expression, T-cell immune activation, and neutralizing antibody formation induced by polymers synthesized from various monomers. Credit:…
There are hundreds of thousands of meteorites hidden beneath Antarctica’s icy surface, some of which are slowly sinking out of…
Air pollution can have a cooling effect on the climateCheunghyo/Getty Images James Hansen, the climate scientist best known for alerting…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Boeing executive Mark Nappi had been the face of the company’s Starliner program during its beleaguered…
Greek authorities have closed schools and deployed emergency crews as a swarm of earthquakes intensifies near the volcanic island of…
Rat sightings are on the rise in New York CityFatih Aktas/Anadolu/Getty Images It has long been predicted that many pest…
Left: sandstone fragment engraved with a runic inscription (credit: George Alexis Pantos). Right: drawing of the stone, making the runes…
Modern computers are a triumph of technology. A single computer chip contains billions of nanometre-scaled transistors that operate extremely reliably…