A 22-metre-long drawing depicting a killer whale holding a knifeMasato Sakai Hundreds of ancient drawings depicting decapitated human heads and…
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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A historic brine bath is the site of a potential breakthrough in the prevention of antibiotic…
What it is: Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxiesWhere it is: 465 million light-years away, in the constellation Leo…
Hurricane Francine formed in the Gulf of Mexico in September 2024NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using VIIRS data…
Credit: Suzy Hazelwood from Pexels Around 1,750 prisoners in England and Wales were recently released early, the first part of…
A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa’s Free State Province has long baffled scientists. Is it…
Covid-19 variant XEC may spread more easily than previous variantsJarun Ontakrai/Shutterstock A new covid-19 variant called XEC has started to…
Credit: Nature Protocols (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41596-024-01046-3 A research team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has developed…
Painting London’s rooftops white could help reduce the outdoor temperature of the city by up to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2…
Gravitational wave detectors use laser beams in tubes that span kilometresThe Virgo Collaboration Gravitational waves that span thousands to billions…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A paper, titled “How local governments avoid floodplain development through consistent implementation of routine municipal ordinances,…
Dr. Dinesh Bhugra became interested in psychiatry while dissecting cadavers in medical school in Pune, India. From the inside, the…
Some lizards can stay underwater for longer by blowing out and then rebreathing bubbles of air. This has been suspected…
Voyager 2 took this picture of Neptune in 1989. Credit: NASA Astronomers have uncovered the “Neptunian Ridge,” a newly identified…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Flade Isblink ice cap, northeast Greenland [81.298483222, -16.071359543]What’s in the photo? A ghostly-looking indentation in the…
Pregnancy may permanently change parts of the brainbernardbodo/iStockphoto/Getty Images The human brain goes through significant changes during pregnancy with few…
Three in four parents have taken steps to help their child make new friends, national poll suggests. Credit: Sara Schultz,…
While meteorologists like to call fall at the beginning of September, astronomical autumn starts later, on the autumnal equinox. This…
An artist’s rendering of the spacewalk on the Polaris Dawn missionSpaceX SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission is a leap forward for…
Landslide-affected slopes around Barry Arm fjord, Alaska. If the slopes suddenly collapse, scientists fear a large tsunami would hit the…
Deep beneath our feet, at a staggering depth of over 5,100km, lies Earth’s inner core — a solid ball of…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned about the dangers of AIChona Kasinger/Bloomberg via Getty Images OpenAI has announced a new…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Sea otters are famed for their luscious pelts, but the fur almost led to their extinction.…
A spectacular image of sunlight streaming through mountains on the moon during a solar eclipse has been crowned this year’s…
There is little good-quality research into smallpox vaccines’ effectiveness against mpoxEmmanuele Contini/NurPhoto via Getty Images Receiving a single dose of…
Dicer-like protein DCL2c regulates host defense in tomato fruit against gray mold. Credit: Horticulture Research (2024). DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhae164 Postharvest decay…
On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a piece of technology that…
Black garden ants take steps to stop diseases spreading through the colonyLeonid Serebrennikov / Alamy When ants have been exposed…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The world has not hit the brakes on methane emissions, a powerful driver of climate change.…
Name: Babylonian Map of the World (“Imago Mundi” in Latin)What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known…