The year of cosmic shock
President Trump jokingly posts a doctored photo of himself leading an alien in chains out of Area 51,…
The oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere is essential to almost every animal alive today — but when it first started accumulating in the air roughly 2.4 billion years ago, it triggered the most lethal pollution event in the planet’s history, wiping out the vast majority of species alive at the time, in what biologists now call the Great Oxidation Event
Roughly 2.4 billion years ago, the atmosphere of the Earth underwent the most consequential chemical change in the…
Most collected waste in many low- and middle-income countries is stored in open dumps or is burned
Lung cancer kills more than two million people every year, making it the most fatal cancer globally. While…
NASA Readies The X-59 For Its First Supersonic Flight, SpaceX’s Starship Grounded And More Science Stories
This week, NASA shared more information about its planned moon base missions, Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded…
Scientists Have Discovered These Deadly Parasites Are Secretly Swapping DNA
Leishmania are microscopic parasites spread by infected sand flies that cause leishmaniasis, a group of diseases ranging from…
Morocco Is Emerging as a Renewable Energy Superpower
Morocco is rapidly becoming a renewable energy powerhouse thanks to its favourable weather conditions and proximity to Europe.…
Streetlights Are Trapping Thousands of Isopods in Mysterious “Death Spirals”
Habitus of isopods collected during aggregative behavior in Eliad. Credit: Idan Sheizaf, Ariel Chipman, and Eviatar Itzkovich Artificial…
These birds clap at night to flirt
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Scientists Challenge a 70-Year-Old Theory of Language With a Surprising Discovery
Researchers have identified a previously overlooked structure underlying human language, revealing patterns that extend beyond traditional measures of…
Scientists Intrigued by Chunk of Flesh That Refuses to Die After Several Years
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New study targets liver as magnetic sensor behind pigeon’s long-range navigation
For decades, researchers have known that homing pigeons can return to their loft from hundreds of miles away…
NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s.
The popular version of the story sounds almost too perfect: NASA is still flying the Voyager spacecraft with…