Research, Space & Discovery
Faint in X-rays but bright in ultraviolet light, new objects found by NASA's Chandra space telescope could help solve two great astrophysical mysteries.
Indonesian authorities are working to repatriate five baby orangutans allegedly trafficked to India, where they were found motherless in a forest, Jakarta's forestry ministry told AFP on Friday.
Research shows that short practices of mindfulness are as good as, if not better than, long ones. Columnist David Robson takes a look at how we can incorporate these microhabits into our daily lives
In “Lethal Autonomy,” Frank Kendall, a former top defense department official, envisions a military future where vehicles and weapons operate largely on their own — including making some decisions to ...
Unconventional quantum theories may imply that time itself has a tiny fundamental uncertainty, placing an ultimate limit on how precisely any clock could measure it. The effect is far beyond current d...
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A cascade of regret and apocalyptic short-term forecasts hit social media this weekThe postAI Engineers Are Having Their Oppenheimer “Destroyer of Worlds” Momentappeared first onNautilus.
A revolution in forecasting natural disasters is underway, say researchers in Switzerland who are training AI models using vast troves of NASA climate data to produce potentially lifesaving data at li...
A remarkably detailed study of Maria Branyas, who lived past 117, reveals that extreme longevity may involve both intense aging and powerful biological protection at the same time. Researchers found s...
Mexico’s second-largest metropolitan area borders on folded rock layers of the Sierra Madre Oriental.
The southern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is known as the Copperbelt because of its rich deposits of copper and other minerals.
Researchers have shown for the first time that human heart muscle cells can regrow after a heart attack. The finding overturns the idea that damaged areas of the heart are completely incapable of rege...
London has one of the lowest violent crime rates of any region in England and Wales, tops a global ranking of the best cities, and pays more in taxes than it receives back in public spending—but the p...
Eating only between noon and 8 p.m. improved blood sugar control in a small study of adults with Type 1 diabetes and obesity, while avoiding an increase in serious complications. The promising finding...
September 10, 2026 English, but make it TikTok: How social media is reshaping language by Samantha Dunn, University of New South Wales edited by Swati Mestri , reviewed by Andr...
Scientists have discovered that the Moon-forming collision may have depended heavily on how hot and physically strong early Earth and Theia were. New simulations found that some impacts create the fam...
Money market funds (MMFs) that grow rapidly when equity markets are soaring pose a systemic risk to global financial systems, new academic research reveals.
UCLA researchers developed ready-made cancer-fighting T cells from cord blood stem cells that can attack solid tumors through two separate detection systems. In mice, a single dose controlled cancer a...
The globe is full of unknown species. But is it really possible to find a completely new animal species in the middle of the largest city in the United States?
For decades, scientists have understood proteins primarily through two defining features: their amino acid sequence and their three-dimensional structure. This framework has driven major advances in b...