Horses can still recognize predators despite domestication
Domestic horses that were shown silent videos of wolves recognized the animals as a threat from sight alone,…
Barnard’s Star Planetary System May Be Filled with Water-Poor Rocky Worlds
A new analysis suggests the four sub-Earth exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s star — the Sun’s nearest single-star neighbor —…
Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on a Nearby Earthlike Planet
There are a few key features that make a planet amenable to life, at least life as earthlings…
Tiny US crystal sensor measures extreme magnetic fields for fusion
A team of US researchers has developed a tiny laser-based crystal sensor that can track intense magnetic fields…
A bar-tailed godwit flew 7,250 miles nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand, going more than eight days without landing, eating or drinking
A female bar-tailed godwit fitted with a satellite transmitter left western Alaska and flew 11,680 kilometers, about 7,250…
Global study reveals how shipping and human activity shape bacteria in port waters
image: A global synthesis of port water microbiome biogeography and anthropogenic associations view more Credit: Baoyi Lv, Qitong…
Explorers who lowered themselves into a Vietnamese cave found a passage so vast it holds its own jungle, its own river and its own weather, a hidden world large enough to swallow a skyscraper
In the early 1990s, Hồ Khanh found a dark opening while moving through the forest of central Vietnam.…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Merged With xAI. Here Is How They Plan to Dominate With Orbital Data Centers.
Early this year, Elon Musk pulled off the biggest corporate merger ever, folding his artificial intelligence (AI) start-up,…
Fruit Fly Sperm Is 40 Times Longer Than Human Sperm and Uses Opposite Lanes to Avoid Tangling
Credit: ZME Science. These insects probably have the largest sperm-to-body-size ratio. A male fruit fly’s sperm is nearly…
Climate change reshapes resource adequacy risks and optimal renewable energy siting in wind and solar energy systems
Davis, S. J. et al. Net-zero emissions energy systems. Science 360, eaas9793 (2018). Article Google Scholar Wang, Y.…
NASA Study Finds Near-Earth Asteroid Is Actually Comet
New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of…
Astronomers discover landslides on Pluto large enough to bury entire cities on Earth
The aftermath of landslides have been found in images of Pluto’s surface taken when the New Horizons mission…