A super El Niño led to flooding in China in 1998ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images In the past month, weather…
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A new study by Hashem Akbari, a professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, offers a simplified…
For the first time, researchers have detected empty voids moving faster than the speed of light — and they blazed…
Our gut microbiome has a significant impact on our hormonesnopparit/Getty Images Discarded sex hormones can be returned to the bloodstream…
Scientists have developed a new method to measure ocean surface currents over large areas in greater detail than ever before.…
Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6,000kg [13,000 lbs]).…
The astronauts of the Artemis II mission have made it home. Their journey, which began in Cape Canaveral, Florida,…
A pervasive narrative has taken hold in education: generative AI (genAI) is an unstoppable force, and educators must adapt or…
Since its historic April 1 launch from Kennedy Space Center, NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon has delivered a…
One of the radiolarian fossils found inside the rock sampleCourtesy of Jonathan Aitchison A tiny pellet of ancient rock, a…
Living with friends may quietly be altering your gut bacteria, according to a new study from the University of East…
About 1,500 years ago, entire families were sacrificed to honor local royalty in what is now South Korea, a new…
Visualisation showing the western boundary currents that form part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning CirculationNASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Buoy measurements…
From space, Earth’s populated areas glow on the otherwise “black marble” of the planet at night. For decades, scientists assumed…
The patient: A 58-year-old woman in GreeceThe symptoms: The patient, who worked outdoors on a Greek island, developed pain around…
Light is both a wave and a particle, and we know it for sure nowAnna Bliokh/Getty Images The following is…
As the four Artemis astronauts approached a high point of their lunar mission—getting slung around the far side of the…
Artemis II has once again made history by carrying humans farther from Earth than ever before, surpassing the record of…
Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics are not a practical guideEntertainment Pictures/Alamy Super-intelligent artificial intelligence rising up and wiping out…
Tropical forests are hot, steamy places. But when large numbers of trees are cut down, they get even hotter. Our…
Quick factsWhat it is: RCW 86, a supernova remnantWhere it is: 8,000 light-years away, in the constellation CircinusWhen it was…
Dying stars can emit a powerful jet of radiation, as seen in an artist’s impressionStocktrek Images, Inc./Alamy Astronomers think they…
For over half a century, people in Central Africa have told tales of the fish seen climbing waterfalls, but these…
The Artemis II mission astronauts have released their first video messages from space, giving the public a glimpse of deep-space…
Howard Bloom has built a career on asking big, unsettling questions about how the world works. In The Case of the Sexual…
Artist’s reconstruction of the ancient ocean ecosystem preserved in the Jiangchuan biotaXiaodong Wang A huge and beautifully preserved suite of…
Take a typical fish out of the water and it won’t live long. It gets the oxygen it needs from…
Scientists have cured type 1 diabetes in mice, without long-term immune suppression.In type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks insulin-producing…
A tobacco plant has been modified to produce five psychedelic drugsAharoni lab, Weizmann Institute if Science Scientists have engineered tobacco…
On Wednesday three men and one woman are set to embark on the first crewed journey to the moon since…