Humans could finally have found a way to defy Earth’s gravity
Gravity is a key component to human life on Earth – but can this powerful force be defied?…
Genetic tools identify lost human relatives from fossil records
Predicted phenotypic differences between AMHs, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI:…
JWST reveals 3I/ATLAS’s coma is largely carbon dioxide
Hubble image of 3I/ATLAS. Credit: NASA/ESA All (or at least most) astronomical eyes are on 3I/ATLAS, our most…
Dark energy may have caused the universe to expand rather than contract
For more than two decades, the standard model of cosmology has stood as a reliable guide to the…
Ultrafast dynamics of ferroelectric polarization of NbOI2 captured with femtosecond electron diffraction
Characterization of NbOI2 nanocrystals Figure 1 a shows the crystal lattice of NbOI2. The lattice constants of NbOI2 are…
Why the spiral pass had physicists’ heads spinning for decades : Short Wave : NPR
Monday night football is back! What better way to celebrate than a close look at some of the…
Hidden swirling motion observed for first time
At first glance, a landslide, an avalanche, or even a heap of sand pushed by a bulldozer looks…
Observable universe is 93 billion light years wide but what’s beyond it? Here’s what we can’t see…
One of the most important pieces of evidence for this limit is the cosmic microwave background radiation, faint…
Did a single genetic mutation make horses rideable?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Domestication of the horse was one of the crowning achievements of early humans. It…
Finding ‘Earth 2.0’ may be easier using a new telescope shape
Concept design for a rectangular space telescope, modeled after the Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER), a notional…
Bison herds ‘reawaken’ Yellowstone’s prairies
An American Bison, also called Buffalo, grazes in the Yellowstone National Park July 09, 2020. There are few…
Human impacts on reef systems; testing AI systems; a woman with perfect memory
Credit: Fabien Vivier, HawaiÊ»i Institute of Marine Biology Marine Mammal Research Program The week in science: UK fishermen…