Research, Space & Discovery
Scientists are looking to diatoms, sea sponges, and plants for a cleaner way to recover rare earth elements and other valuable minerals hidden inside coal ash, red mud, and mine tailings. The bio-insp...
A mismatch in growth between a snake embryo’s body and gut may explain why its first coils consistently turn to the right. As a snake embryo grows inside its egg, its increasingly long body curls into...
Sexual harassment between peers begins as early as Grade 4 and continues throughout lower secondary school. Most of those who sexually harass others have also experienced harassment themselves. These ...
As China integrates crewed and robotic missions to further its lunar exploration program, it is…The postChina progresses plans for Mars sample return, asteroid flyby and more launch sitesappeared firs...
The lunar surface is more dynamic than you might thinkThe postThe Moon has a New Once-in-a-Century Craterappeared first onNautilus.
COVID-19 and Rhabdomyolysis: Systematic Review Finds Stronger Signal After Infection, 20 Cases Reported After Vaccination
The Republic of Albania will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 12 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 21, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 73rd country signatory. NASA Deputy Adminis...
Specialized microbes convert inedible materials into protein-rich snacks. A cookie made partly from molecules derived from plastic waste sounds more like a warning than a food experiment. But research...
Research scientist Ashish Rajurkar kneels in the dirt, lifting a large clod of soil tangled around a soybean plant. He knocks away pieces of earth from the plant's roots, which slope straight down ins...
Peering 10,000 years into the pastThe postThe “Most Complete” Mastodon Tooth Ever Foundappeared first onNautilus.
A new algorithm solves a blind spot that has challenged computer scientists since 1996, improving distance estimates for nearby points in massive networks. Navigation apps usually solve one route at a...
Between 2006 and 2017, North Korea conducted six underground nuclear tests at its vast testing site at Mount Mantap in North Hamgyong province. Typically, underground explosions trigger an intense bur...
Ancient Chinese authorities used many creative ways to punish people, often with methods designed to mark them for life. One brutal example mentioned repeatedly in historical texts is cutting off a pe...
Despite the rapid development of generative AI and the high level of public interest, the use of AI in the day-to-day work of many employees is not yet the norm. This is the finding of the third wave ...
Douglas Seiler painstakingly sourced papyrus and reed pens from Egypt and traditional lampblack ink from Japan, then paid some high school students to inscribe the papyrus with lines from Star Wars an...
People with power are more quickly singled out as the culprit when something goes wrong but it is unclear who made the mistake. That is shown by a series of studies by researchers at the University of...
The European Union has committed to achieving climate neutrality by 2050, a process that will require rapid and substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions across all economic sectors.
Seeing a bachelor's thesis published in a scientific journal is relatively uncommon. For three theses linked to the same research group to result in scientific publications within just three months is...
Scientists have filmed a crystal of tiny magnetic vortices melting and reshaping in real time, a breakthrough that could bring ultra-efficient computers closer to reality. A crystal does not have to b...
Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Th...