China’s population has fallen after decades of sky-high growth. This major shift in the world’s most populous country would be a big deal by itself, but China’s hardly alone in its declining numbers: despite the momentous occasion of the...
The Hubble Space Telescope may have just found a rare "missing link" black hole hiding in Earth's cosmic backyard.Located roughly 6,000 light-years away at the core of the nearby star cluster Messier 4, the intermediate-mass black hole candidate is...
Earth's magnetic field, generated by the flow of molten iron in the planet's inner core, extends out into space and protects us from cosmic radiation emitted by the Sun. It is also, remarkably, used by animals like salmon, sea...
The rapid development of unexpected drought, called flash drought, can severely impact agricultural and ecological systems with ripple effects that extend even further. Researchers at the University of Oklahoma are assessing how our warming climate will affect the frequency...
Jeffrey Cirio as the Creature, in a still from Asif Kapadia’s film adaptation of the ballet Creature.Courtesy BFI Distribution and English National Ballet Creature Asif Kapadia On limited release in the UK and Ireland In an isolated research...
Warming temperatures are increasing the flow of less-dense meltwater and slowing down deep ocean currents in Antarctica. (Image credit: UniversalImagesGroup / Contributor)Deep ocean currents around Antarctica that are vital to marine life have slowed by 30% since the 1990s...
Usually, there are clear answers in mathematics—especially if the tasks are not too complicated. But when it comes to the Sleeping Beauty problem, which became popular in 2000, there is still no universal consensus. Experts in philosophy and mathematics...
Editor’s Note (5/3/23): The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved GSK’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for adults age 60 and older—the first approved vaccine for this disease. The road to its development was long and bumpy but...
In the first known case of its kind, a man in Michigan developed recurrent deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in both legs after reportedly being bitten by a brown recluse spider.Previously, "no case of deep vein thrombosis has been reported...
The spiral galaxy M99, imaged by the Hubble Space TelescopeESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Kasliwal Many large galaxies were long thought to be missing a huge proportion of matter – but it has now been found, and that is an...
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