The Fossil Record May Be Missing 200 Million Years of Animal History
Ediacaran sea floor, Namibia, Southwest Africa – 543 million years ago. Credit: Museum of Natural History, University of…
A Massive 29-Square-Mile Iceberg Hit an Island and Kept Going
An iceberg from Petermann Glacier encounters Joe Island in northwestern Greenland, visible in images captured by the OLI…
Adults Taking More Vitamin D Scored 13% Higher on a Cognitive Test
Adults with mild cognitive impairment and sleep disturbances who took at least 5,000 IU of vitamin D daily…
Vast Hidden Structure Discovered Under Miles of Ice in East Antarctica
Scientists have uncovered a gigantic hidden structure beneath East Antarctica, linking several enormous basins buried under miles of…
Goodbye Plastic? Scientists Create New Supermaterial That Could Transform Modern Manufacturing
A new study in Nature Communications reports the development of an innovative, scalable approach to engineer bacterial cellulose…
Tibetan herder goes from internet darling to tourism ambassador, now romantic film actor
Five years after Tibetan herder Tenzing Tsondu was hailed as “China’s most handsome man” for a seven-second video…
The Universe Is Expanding Too Fast and Scientists Can’t Explain Why
Artist’s interpretation of the cosmic distance ladder — a succession of overlapping methods used to measure distances across…
Scientists Create Strange Shape-Shifting Material
A close look at a free-standing arch made of crown-leg staples. Credit: CU Boulder A simple bundle of…
Bread Might Be Making You Gain Weight Even Without Eating More Calories
In a new study, mice strongly preferred foods like bread, rice, and wheat, abandoning their regular diet and…
Israel delivers Barak MX battery to Slovakia
Slovakia has invested just over half a billion euros in the Barak MX from IAI and the first…
Doctors warn of spinal cord damage as ‘neck-hanging exercise’ trends among China youth
In an attempt to mimic cervical traction therapy used in hospitals, a new trend known as the “neck-hanging…
OpenAI announces new ‘human powered’ ChatGPT-6
OpenAI, the founders of popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, have announced their new, ‘human powered’ GPT‑6 model. The new update…