With the rise of AI models and automated bots, we find out whether there is any weight to the idea that the internet is now mostly dominated by machines or if it’s still a human hangout. | Continue reading
Scientists finally know why ultraviolent superstorms flare up on Uranus and Neptune | Continue reading
New observations with JWST have confirmed that supermassive black holes have the power to quench star formation across their surrounding galaxies. | Continue reading
The "fastest evolving vertebrate" title is hotly contested, but here are a few contenders. | Continue reading
Tulip trees were long renowned for their carbon storage. Their unique wood may be responsible. | Continue reading
On Sunday, Sept. 22, day and night will be nearly equal in length as Earth spins side-on to the sun and autumn officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere. | Continue reading
Human activities now account for two-thirds of all methane venting to the atmosphere, and our efforts to staunch the flow are not yet bearing fruit. | Continue reading
Unlike the other planets in the solar system, Mars is distinctly triaxial, meaning it is an ellipsoid with different sizes along all three axes. | Continue reading
The long-sought evidence of alien life could be lurking in Earth's oceans, says Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. Here is his plan to find it. | Continue reading
The first phase of China's moon base will be completed around 2035 near the lunar south pole, and an extended model will be built by about 2050, if all goes according to plan. | Continue reading
SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronaut Jared Isaacman briefly "touched the void" as he embarked on the first-ever private spacewalk Thursday (Sept. 12). | Continue reading
When the brain "juggles" information, things can fall through the cracks. | Continue reading
Seeing the world with a restricted color palate seems to tone down an emotion-based resistance to new foods. | Continue reading
An angular roughshark pulled from the water near Elba, an Italian island near Tuscany. | Continue reading
China's Chang'e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 million years ago. | Continue reading
"Human evolution has occurred both due to, and in spite of, the placenta. Every pregnancy, unthinkingly, must navigate a careful path through it. Every menstruation is testament to it. It is partly why menopause exists, to give individuals an escape from the energetic costs assoc … | Continue reading
Soap has a pretty simple formula and a long history. | Continue reading
The Earth's core may be much younger than previously thought. | Continue reading
Sept. 14, 2024: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. | Continue reading
A new study suggests that mindfulness meditation influences how the brain perceives pain in ways that are distinct from the placebo effect. | Continue reading
Giving children saline nose drops at the start of a cold may shorten its duration and reduce the likelihood that they will pass the illness to others, a study hints. But it has some caveats. | Continue reading
The world's largest hot desert, the Sahara, is being hit with unusually heavy rain. Scientists are unclear why, but it may be linked to a subdued Atlantic hurricane season. | Continue reading
Satellite data suggest a volcano in Tanzania that expels extremely runny lava could be creeping toward an eruption. | Continue reading
The Celestron Origin will have you taking crystal clear stunning pictures of deep sky objects in minutes. | Continue reading
The growing "gateway to the underworld," officially known as the Batagay megaslump, is the largest megaslump in the world and exposes permafrost layers that are 650,000 years old. | Continue reading
When exposed to terms common in different racial dialects, large language models make inherently racist assumptions about people from particular racial groups, even without explicitly knowing their race. | Continue reading
Scientists accidentally discover new species of wasp that lays eggs inside living, adult fruit flies, which then burst from the hosts' abdomens while they're still alive. | Continue reading
Archaeologists have unearthed a set of uniquely decorated bracelets on the site of a "large and powerful" Viking Age farm. | Continue reading
With Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is safely back on Earth, NASA says Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams could have returned onboard. | Continue reading
Every week, we open a window onto an incredible place and highlight the fantastic history and science behind it. | Continue reading
Many patients with ALS die within three to five years of their symptoms starting, so early diagnosis of the disease is critical for treatment. | Continue reading
Given the right conditions, certain types of cells are able to self-assemble into new lifeforms after the organism they were once part of has died. | Continue reading
The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a "living fossil." A new discovery reveals that it evolved faster when plate tectonics were most active. | Continue reading
A composite image of an annular solar eclipse showing Baily's Beads won top prize at the 2024 Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest. | Continue reading
Volcanoes spewing carbon dioxide 250 million years ago heated the climate so much that extreme El Niño events became the norm, pushing most life on Earth past its limits. | Continue reading
In September, a strange nine-day signal rocked our planet and baffled scientists. Now they have finally found the cause. | Continue reading
Archaeologists think the ancient helmet indicates that Celts settled in the region to protect their supplies of precious amber. | Continue reading
Detailed 3D images of the first tardigrade fossils ever discovered help scientists predict when tardigrades evolved their near-indestructibility — a trait that might have helped them survive multiple mass extinctions. | Continue reading
Physicists have created a one dimensional gas out of light particles for the first time. Studying how the photon gas behaves could help researchers discover some yet-unknown quantum optical effects. | Continue reading
A new tool can reveal whether someone has a "healthy" gut microbiome with a simple score — but how does it work? | Continue reading
Wildlife officials in Georgia stumbled across a pair of snakes that had been "expelled" by a larger serpent, only to discover that one of the regurgitated victims was still alive. | Continue reading
Scientists in the U.S. have created a battery for electric cars that could be safer and offer better performance than the ones we have now thanks to a unique design. | Continue reading
The gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a blue whale, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by 2.6 times the distance between Earth and the moon. | Continue reading
Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope may reveal a secret merger in our supermassive black hole's past, potentially explaining the cosmic monster's unusual spin. | Continue reading
Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the sky, may have a secret sunlike companion that drives the star’s mysterious six-year-long "heartbeat," new research suggests. | Continue reading
Wild gorillas eat the same tree bark used by traditional healers, which can inhibit the growth of E. coli in petri dishes, according to a new study. | Continue reading
Three newfound thylacine relatives recently unearthed in Australia suggest that marsupial predators were more widespread in ancient Australia than previously thought. | Continue reading
New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a collision course with Earth by another asteroid before it flies past our planet in 2029. | Continue reading