Who can assess and diagnose cardiac function best after reading an echocardiogram: artificial intelligence (AI) or a sonographer? According to…
Browsing: Science
By observing the night sky, medieval monks unwittingly recorded some of history’s largest volcanic eruptions. An international team of researchers,…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A trio of psychologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of York and Duke…
In a twist on the question, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?,” scientists have long faced a similar…
Science in meter and verse Credit: Michael Warren/Getty ImagesAdvertisement Edited by Dava Sobel When two rivers meet,they sometimes hesitate to…
Ice sheets can retreat up to 600 metres a day during periods of climate warming, 20 times faster than the…
A warmer Arctic has been linked to extreme winter weather in the midlatitude regions. But, it is not clear how…
Cornell University researchers have found people have more efficient conversations, use more positive language and perceive each other more positively…
The Isthmus of Panama connected North and South America sometime between 23 million and 3 million years ago. (Image credit:…
Gemini time-series photometry of J0049−2525 obtained over two consecutive nights. Credit: Kilic et al, 2023 Astronomers have conducted photometric observations…
Solar-powered balloons launched into the Earth’s stratosphere have recorded a series of mysterious rumblings, and scientists can’t pinpoint their origins.The…
People on high incomes can still get happier with more moneyColin Anderson/Blend Images LLC/Getty Images For most people in the…
Update: The Terran 1 rocket was not launched on 8 March due to an issue involving the temperature of the…
When we consume alcohol, our liver produces more of the hormone FGF21, which helps to protect the organ from alcohol-induced…
ON A regular basis, I wonder why we have a cat. This thought was most recently prompted by Peggy jumping…
A recent study, published in Neuropsychopharmacology, conducted by researchers from the University of Helsinki and the University of Eastern Finland,…
Migration choices and contributions across rounds at each lab. Credit: Lo Iacono et al A multi-lab replication of a 2006…
Credit: Sonja Vasiljeva, Broad Communications Researchers have used a highly precise genome-editing technology called base editing to make hundreds of…
Typical septoria symptoms on wheat leaf produced by the ascomycete fungus Zymoseptoria tritici. Credit: Dr. Janine Haueisen Worldwide, growers lose…
The images in the bottom row were recreated from the brain scans of someone looking at those in the top…
Noah’s flood is one of the most recognized Bible stories. According to the Old Testament, “In the six hundredth year…
Life for all animals, including humans, would be simpler if diseases had a sign saying “beware!” with flashing lights and…
More than three years after the COVID-causing virus first infected humans, possibly via a wild animal sold at a market…
Unlocking the secrets of magnetic materials requires the right illumination. Magnetic x-ray circular dichroism makes it possible to decode magnetic…
Chemotherapy treatments produce strong side effects. A new agent that accumulates in the tumour tissue and is activated there by…
Open your favorite social media platform and note how many friends or followers you have. Specifically, note the first digit…
Feeling like we have a degree of control makes us tolerate pain better. In the case of fibromyalgia, however, this…
This “electroadhesion” technique can stick all matter of materials together without any adhesives or glues. Credit: American Chemical Society If…
Bumblebees spread behaviour through social learningRichard Becker / Alamy Stock Photo Bumblebees can teach each other how to solve a…
Since the outbreak of warfare in Ukraine, intelligence reporting from publicly available information, open-source intelligence (OSINT), has made a groundbreaking…