Physicists model vacuum tunneling in a 2D superfluid
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to…
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…
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…
A human city on Mars? SpaceX, Elon Musk have big plans for Starship
Starship, which SpaceX has launched on nine flight tests from Starbase in South Texas, is the centerpiece of…
Ceres may have had long-standing energy to fuel habitability
Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these enhanced-color renderings that use images from NASA’s Dawn mission. New thermal…
Falling water forms beautiful fluted films
Using hollow tubes of varying diameters and high-speed imaging, KAUST researchers captured the hidden shapes of the thin…
Streams of gas might lead to the rapid formation of high-mass stars
The dust emission of the high-mass star forming region G336.018-00.827 ALMA1 at radio wavelengths. The star symbol indicates…
Spectral bats greet each other with ‘hugs’ and share food, video study reveals
Social roosting of the spectral bats (Vamyprum spectrum). Credit: Marisa Tietge, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) The world’s largest carnivorous…