Complications that arise after surgery are more likely to be underrecognized and undertreated in women than in men, leading to higher death rates, new research suggests. Why? | Continue reading
Motion capture requires special equipment and infrastructure that can cost upward of $100,000 — but scientists have created a smartphone app and AI algorithm to do the same job. | Continue reading
From Roman "fish scale" armor to Japanese samurai suits, these examples of battle armor were designed to protect and impress. | Continue reading
This powerful Newtonian reflector telescope has hundreds of 5-star Amazon reviews and a previous Black Friday best price-beating discount. | Continue reading
A 2014 photo shows a massive, iceberg-littered pool of vibrant blue meltwater sitting alone on top of a glacier in Alaska. Similar "melt ponds" are becoming increasingly common in the Arctic due to climate change and are further accelerating the rate of ice loss across the region … | Continue reading
The new city, dubbed Valeriana, was a dense urban settlement with temple pyramids and a ball court. | Continue reading
Researchers have found that forensic "DNA mixture analysis" is less accurate for certain groups of people with lower genetic diversity, which could falsely link them to crime scenes. | Continue reading
Around 1,200 years ago, a cat "made biscuits" in a drying clay jug in Jerusalem, leaving behind the oldest evidence of kneading on record. | Continue reading
Language processing happens at speeds significantly faster than it takes to speak one word aloud. | Continue reading
A deep neural network was trained using quantum tunneling to mimic the human ability to view optical illusions. | Continue reading
Tsunamis and tidal waves are the powerful types of wave on Earth, but very different processes are involved in their formation. | Continue reading
Archaeologists think the felt figurine was used as a symbol of life by the Iron Age people of the region. | Continue reading
Wind can whip up to surprising speeds, depending on if it's natural or human made. | Continue reading
In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school. | Continue reading
What may be scariest about a spooky black cat is the way superstition and tradition shape people's perceptions and biases about animals based only on their color. | Continue reading
Rain has so far been ignored in calculations of the ocean's capacity to take up carbon, but a new estimate shows it enhances the ocean sink by 5% to 7%. | Continue reading
"If you constantly use an AI to find the music, career or political candidate you like, you might eventually forget how to do this yourself." Ethicist Muriel Leuenberger considers the personal impact of relying on AI. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered lonely quasars in the early universe, with "empty larders" that defy theories surrounding their growth to monster sizes. | Continue reading
A pulsating red star and its spectacular nebula have been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. | Continue reading
The Himalayas' massive heights result from a unique combination of geologic factors. | Continue reading
The mantle is split up into two domains — the African and the Pacific — that emerged when supercontinent Pangaea broke apart. | Continue reading
On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce. | Continue reading
Babirusas are believed to have diverged from their pig ancestors between 26 million and 12 million years ago after getting isolated on Sulawesi when sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age. | Continue reading
Scientists say they've uncovered where the vast majority of Earth's meteorites came from. | Continue reading
The largest and oldest-known impact site on the moon is the South Pole-Aitken basin. Thanks to new research, scientists have dated the basin to the period between 4.32 and 4.33 billion years ago. | Continue reading
Troubleshooting the leaking ISS is ongoing, with NASA and Russia now identifying 50 "areas of concern" and four cracks, according to a media report. | Continue reading
The first nuclear bomb test, conducted in 1945, set off an international arms race that included nuclear testing. But how many nuclear bombs have been detonated during tests and in active war? | Continue reading
The 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines are available, and the CDC recommends that certain groups get two doses, spaced six months apart. | Continue reading
Researchers calculated the flight ability of more than 80 ancient cicada species to analyze their evolution over time. | Continue reading
Population assessments have revealed that polar bears in Greenland are suffering from crippling wounds on their paws due to wet snow that gets stuck to the pads and freezes into blocks. | Continue reading
Researchers think that microgravity could help grow liver "organoids" that could be used in medical research and even in transplant surgeries, someday. | Continue reading
Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed the throne room of a powerful queen from the Moche culture, and detailed murals of the female ruler decorate its walls. | Continue reading
Activated charcoal can reduce the effectiveness of certain medications. But why is that? | Continue reading
A visualization from space of the Gulf Stream as it unfurls across the North Atlantic Ocean. | Continue reading
Researchers spotted a second distant star orbiting a well-known black hole and its stellar companion in a never-before-seen gravitational triad. The system's unique configuration suggests that the black hole was not created as scientists initially expected. | Continue reading
A hut sits at an altidue of 1,800 meters near the Mackenzie Mountains in Yukon, Canada. | Continue reading
A new analysis indicates the human remains found in a well in Norway are from a 1197 raid described in a royal history. | Continue reading
Icebergs and other glacial fragments regularly wash up on Iceland's southern Diamond Beach, making the sandy strip look like a field of gemstones. | Continue reading
The new study models how light spreads at the nanometer scale to understand how energy moves between rare earth emitters and the quantum defects within a solid material. | Continue reading
On Sept. 30, NASA's Perseverance rover turned its eyes toward the sky and photographed a solar eclipse from Mars, capturing the tiny moon Phobos crossing the sun's face. | Continue reading
Scientists haven't actually confirmed a link between age and hangover severity, but there are some reasons why older people might feel worse after a night of drinking than young folks would. | Continue reading
New research finds that marmots who experience adversity early in life have a lesser chance of survival. | Continue reading
Early experiments suggest a patch that delivers harmless electric currents into the skin can thwart certain bacterial infections. However, it has not yet been tested in humans. | Continue reading
A large new analysis suggests that some people carry genetic variants that make them more likely to have female than male offspring. | Continue reading
A new animated map sheds light on the superhot "zombie star" at the heart of a nebula leftover from a distant supernova witnessed by astronomers in 1181. The remains of the stellar explosion are unusually wonky and are still exploding at a constant speed. | Continue reading
"Zebrahub" is an atlas of cells in developing zebrafish embryos, and scientists say it will help us learn about our own biology, too. | Continue reading
Female Burmese python measuring 14.8’ (4.5m) and weighing 115.2 lbs (52.3 kg) consuming a white-tailed deer weighing 76.9 lbs (34.9 kg) in southwestern Florida. | Continue reading
"Killer electrons" stashed in radiation belts around Earth could be dislodged by lightning to create a game of "cosmic pinball" that influences space weather around our planet. | Continue reading