On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a piece of technology that…
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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…
Medical clowns can help children through their treatmentsFatCamera/Getty Images Children and teenagers with pneumonia seem to spend less time in…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most school shootings don’t just happen out of nowhere—there are typically warning signs. A year before…
A nearby galaxy is shining with star formation in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.The spiral galaxy Messier…
Bands of fast-moving wind that blow west to east around the globe play a crucial role in weather – a…
Experimental setup of the FSO outdoor experiments. Tunable laser source (TLS), driving amplifier (DA), arbitrary waveform generator (AWG), transmitter digital…
Roughly one in six people are affected by infertility worldwide.And with more than half the world’s population now living in…
Smaller pterosaurs may have flapped their wings while larger ones soaredTerryl Whitlatch Despite living hundreds of millions of years apart,…
These are far-ultraviolet Hubble images of Mars near its farthest point from the sun, called aphelion, on December 31, 2017…
Viking age people who lived in what is now Norway were far more likely to be violently killed than Viking…
The predicted path of asteroid CAQTDL2 over the PhilippinesCatalina Sky Survey/ESA An asteroid hit Earth and burned up in the…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Companies with emotionally intelligent managers are not only nicer places to work, but also make more…
The remains of a possible Roman “mega” fort that would have housed hundreds of soldiers have been unearthed under a…
The pregnant porbeagle shark after being tagged by researchersJon Dodd A pregnant porbeagle shark may have been eaten by a…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A research team led by Prof. Gao Xiaoming from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of…
A search of more than 1,300 galaxies for extraterrestrial signals has helped to constrain expectations as to how many communicating,…
A high-altitude balloon launched by the US Army Pacific in the Philippines in 2022 as part of an exercise to…
Chocolate callets are displayed at the California Cultured office in West Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff…
A mysterious ring of radio light could have been created by a type of massive star with a powerful wind…
Polarised light can make messages encoded in a quantum hologram disappearHong Liang, Wai Chun Wong, Tailin An, Jensen Li 2024…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When it comes to financial reporting, how much information is too much? Public companies in the…
The frigid waters of the Arctic may harbor the secret to a totally new type of antibiotic, new research suggests.Scientists…
The cargo sailing ship Anemos is crossing the Atlantic OceanRonan Gladu/TOWT The world’s largest sailing cargo ship is making its…
Manila residents walk amid debris in the aftermath of Typhoon Gaemi, which led to at least 40 deaths in the…
In 2023, physicists were awed to find nearly imperceptible ripples in the fabric of space and time — united as…
“I have really modest goals. I want to have the largest impact on human suffering of anyone, ever,” says Lou…
Map of the study area, showing major reservoirs, rivers, canals, and water providers of the Tulare Lake Basin region in…