Research, Space & Discovery
An organelle discovered inside a microbe inside a cow’s gut helps explain how livestock burps contribute to warming our planet.The postA New Way That a Cow’s Inner World Shapes Earth’s Atmospherefirst...
For the first time, researchers can witness nanometer-scale thickness changes across a melting snowflake with a compact, lensless chip that captures gigapixel video at 30 frames per second across cent...
Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole straying far from the centre of its galaxy using light from a star being ripped apart
Between biosignatures and technosignatures lie noosignatures, and some scientists think they could help us find alien life someday.
Experts can now get a better look under the surface of vast glaciersThe postWhy an Icy Hummingbird Has Emerged in Antarcticaappeared first onNautilus.
The discovery could improve thermal management in electronics and support advances in quantum and next-generation computing technologies. Heat usually spreads outward through a solid, making it diffic...
NASA will provide coverage as astronauts venture outside the International Space Station during three spacewalks in August to continue upgrading solar arrays, replace a communications antenna, and con...
July 27, 2026 A sweary boss might make you work harder (or want to quit) by Alexandros Psychogios, Dritjon Gruda, The Conversation edited by Gaby Clark , reviewed by Andrew Zin...
As you get older, your body’s response to food changes significantly. But by making the right changes to what you eat from midlife and beyond, it might be possible to add a decade to your life
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Primordial black holes may trigger some white dwarf explosions and leave measurable signatures in the Milky Way’s chemistry. Some Type Ia supernovae may begin with an invisible intruder passing throug...
"Shark Week," which kicks off this week, has captivated audiences for decades with stories of these powerful ocean predators. But the secret behind their extraordinary swimming abilities lies far deep...
Young people are navigating their romantic and sexual lives in an increasingly complex world. Social media content, including content from misogynistic influencers, has contributed to rapidly changing...
The descriptions of the two new additions to the European snail fauna, named Cochlostoma komarnica and Cochlostoma dobrido, have been published in the open-access Biodiversity Data Journal.
Five young Pallas's cats—dubbed the world's grumpiest felines for their sullen facial expressions—went on display at a zoo in Japan on Thursday.
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all?
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a method for systematically developing novel, complex combinations of probiotics and prebiotics to more effectively maintain gut health and tr...
Neural networks have transformed how machines find patterns in data, from recognizing faces in photos to predicting the shapes of proteins. So far, all of this progress has been made on ordinary class...
Pennsylvania's roughly 100,000 oil and gas wells produce wastewater that's many times saltier than seawater and contains radium, a known carcinogen. For decades, that saltwater, called brine, was spre...
Researchers have uncovered a surprising mechanism that allows plants to carefully coordinate the formation and growth of new leaf parts. The study shows that the hormone auxin regulates different phas...