Researchers tickle gorillas, other apes and find out they giggle
NEW YORK — Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a…
Discovery of fish-eating raptor in Argentina points to prehistoric links with China
Scientists have uncovered a new species of raptor in Argentina that sports the same telltale curved claw as…
Turkey Pushes Bold Global Plan to Electrify 35% of Energy Use by 2035
Turkey, the host of the UN’s COP31 climate summit, has urged other countries to electrify to support the…
NASA Moon Base Could Become Earth’s First Defense Against Alien Microbes
Scientists say the Moon could serve as Earth’s first biological shield by housing a secure facility for quarantining…
Astronomers used to assume galaxies formed first and slowly grew the black holes at their centres. But JWST is now finding objects in the early universe where the black hole appears to have arrived first — already enormous before a full galaxy had grown around it.
The old classroom version of galaxy formation had an appealing order to it. First came the galaxy: gas…
Making and breaking habits help animals survive
Psychologists have spent more than a century studying habits in people, cataloging when they form, what makes them…
Strange glowing ‘bow-and-arrow’ structure may be a giant cosmic shock wave created by a supersonic galaxy collision
A bizarre radio galaxy discovered by a citizen scientist has left astronomers puzzled, revealing a never-before-seen “bow-and-arrow” structure…
Appeals court rejects Trump EPA bid to abandon rule restricting deadly soot pollution | US Environmental Protection Agency
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to abandon a Biden-era rule that…
For billions of years, the Moon’s almost airless surface has been exposed to the solar wind, letting helium-3 become trapped in its soil — making the Moon the most tempting nearby reservoir of a fusion fuel that is almost nonexistent on Earth.
The Moon has no helium-3 mine, and no power grid on Earth is waiting for lunar fuel to…
Time may be an illusion derived from quantum entanglement
Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker…
Wednesday briefing: How can the UK protect its landscape in an increasingly hot world? | Wildlife
Our green and pleasant land is sizzling. This week, millions of us across the UK are baking in…
SpaceX stock has cooled. Hiring for space economy jobs hasn’t
Clearly, there’s money to be made in space. SpaceX’s historic initial public offering minted a $2 trillion company.…