The grandfather paradox is just one of the thorny logical problems that arise with the concept of time travel. But one physicist says he has resolved them. | Continue reading
Comet ATLAS (C/2024) G3 is set to dazzle Southern Hemisphere skywatchers in mid-January. Here’s everything you need to know about the 'New Year comet'. | Continue reading
A new study in mice suggests that sleeping pills may impede the brain's ability to "cleanse" itself during sleep. | Continue reading
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Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say. | Continue reading
Trichuris incognita is a newfound intestinal roundworm closely related to the whipworm parasite. However, it is significantly more resistant to treatment. | Continue reading
A woman with a known nut allergy had a severe allergic reaction after sex, even though her partner bathed and brushed his teeth first. Here's why. | Continue reading
Four bags of money hidden around 1640 and worth "much more than a craftsman could earn in a year" have been found inside a statue at a Gothic church in Germany. | Continue reading
Archaeologists working at the site of Saqqara have discovered a 4,100-year-old tomb that held the burial of a doctor. | Continue reading
A canine baculum (penis bone) covered in red ochre may be from a long-lost Romano-British ritual. | Continue reading
Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" galaxy, 6.5 billion light-years from Earth. It is the largest group of individually imaged stars ever seen at such a distance. | Continue reading
Shark sex is a bitey business, with males grasping females with their teeth during the act. The resulting wounds are helping scientists to figure out when and where sharks are doing the deed. | Continue reading
A huge magnitude 7.1 earthquake has hit the holy city of Shigatse, or Xigazê, in the autonomous region of Tibet in China. | Continue reading
The Python Rangemaster boasts Alpha glass quality with anti-reflective coatings on its lenses. Its BAK4 barium-coated roof prisms produce high-quality images for various viewing activities. | Continue reading
This 2014 satellite photo shows Pakistan's Khor Kalmat tidal lagoon brimming with water at the heart of an arid desert. This fluctuating body of water, which looks like "ink bleeding onto parchment," helps support life in this harsh environment. | Continue reading
New Project Digits mini PC offers a petaFLOP of power for local AI processing and data science. | Continue reading
Nvidia's Cosmos platform lets researchers simulate multiple different realities and simulate real-world physics to generate footage that can train future robots. | Continue reading
The patient in Louisiana who contracted a severe case of bird flu has died, officials announced. | Continue reading
Only certain cleaners kill norovirus, a leading cause of vomiting, diarrhea and foodborne illness. Why is that? | Continue reading
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A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed where they did. | Continue reading
The conditions needed to create thunderstorms are very rare, and can be dangerous, meteorologists warn. | Continue reading
Zavaritskii volcano in the Kuril Islands was responsible for the mysterious 1831 volcanic eruption that cooled the climate and turned the sun different colors, a new study finds. | Continue reading
Record-breaking Wolf 907F, the alpha of the Junction Butte pack, died after a confrontation with a rival pack at Yellowstone River on Christmas Day. | Continue reading
More than 100 volcanoes lurk beneath the surface in Antarctica. Ice sheet melt could set them off. | Continue reading
This marble statuette is emblematic of Ptolemaic-era art: a mishmash of styles with a decidedly Egyptian twist. | Continue reading
An astronomer describes how the moon's surface temperature changes. | Continue reading
Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 million years ago, giving birth to twins was the norm. | Continue reading
In "time expansion experiences," time typically appears to expand by many orders of magnitude. | Continue reading
Research shows that A.D. 536 was not the worst year to be alive. | Continue reading
Honda's new facility could drive breakthroughs in solid-state batteries for electric cars, ultimately leading to batteries with more than double the range of existing EVs. | Continue reading
The Panasonic Leica DG Elmarit 200mm f/2.8 POWER O.I.S delivers professional image quality and functionality in a compact and lightweight package. | Continue reading
Is the Polar's flagship outdoor watch worth its premium price? | Continue reading
AI promises to accelerate scientific discovery, but if scientists aren't careful public trust may be left behind. | Continue reading
A coin hoard dating back about 2,100 years, during the time of the Jewish Hasmonean kings, has been discovered at a site in the Jordan Valley. | Continue reading
Behold, the giants! The Hubble Space Telescope has completed a decade of observing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. | Continue reading
How can DNA from a cheek swab determine if someone is closely related to you? | Continue reading
Hypnosis is safe and can work as both a standalone or a complementary treatment with other therapies. | Continue reading
We've just hit a 'critical inflection point' on the road to scalable quantum computers. Here's why. | Continue reading
Will the striking design of the Hawke Endurance be matched by its performance? | Continue reading
A complete indoor cycling setup at a reasonable price. | Continue reading
Dwarf crocodiles in Gabon found living in a cave, with their skin turning orange from swimming in guano. It's unclear how long they've been down there, but genetic research indicates they may be morphing into a new species. | Continue reading
Researchers from Google and Stanford have created accurate AI replicas of more than 1,000 people. | Continue reading
Using AI training, researchers designed a "robot dog" that moves like a cat, and has no trouble navigating low-gravity environments | Continue reading
It's possible to compare some aspects of animal and human intelligence, but not all researchers like to. | Continue reading
Jan. 3, 2025: 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
Single crystal electrodes in lithium-ion electric vehicle batteries enable them to last several times longer than existing technology. | Continue reading
Researchers developed a more precise method of understanding ancestry from ancient DNA and used it to identify previously unknown waves of migration. | Continue reading