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Dramatic gannet dive wins Bird Photographer of the Year competition

Henley Spiers took the top award in the annual contest, with shots of guillemots, penguins and a protective tawny…

The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled

Swimmer made of quantum light breaks Newton’s third law

According to Newton’s third law, all actions are paired with reciprocal reactions.

The collapse of the AMOC would be catastrophic. How will we know when it’s coming?

Europe faces incredibly harsh winters and unrelenting droughts if the vital AMOC ocean current fails – but when disaster…

The Claude Delusion

The article explores how humans are naturally predisposed to detect intention and meaning in things, using the analogy…

One-Electron Universe

The one-electron universe is a hypothesis proposed by physicist John Wheeler in 1940 suggesting that all electrons and…

Mathematical Billiards (2024)

Mathematical billiards studies the idealized trajectories of balls bouncing inside custom-shaped, frictionless tables…

Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong

Birds exhibit regional dialects and accents in their songs, with the same species singing noticeably different…

The Millennium Problems for Biology

The article proposes three major scientific challenges for biology analogous to the Millennium Prize Problems in…

T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant

Isotope ratios provide a hint that the giants were actively managing temperatures.

Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91%

Learning Another Language May Be One of the Best Ways to Keep Your Brain Healthy

Learning another language engages multiple complex mental processes simultaneously—including memory, pattern…

Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy

Research suggests that bilingualism can offer cognitive benefits.

Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade

Chariklo is only about 250 km across, but it has two rings, and they're changing.

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

Grant Sanderson argues that mathematics should place greater value on "motivated explanations"—clear, intuitive accounts…

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

Stanford Medicine researchers discovered that the human brain consists of two distinct organs that evolved…

NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model

NASA and IBM have released an open-source artificial intelligence model trained on nearly two million lunar datasets…

Science Is Open Software

The author argues that modern computational science is fundamentally open source software, as science requires testable,…

Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep

Rare cells with widespread connectivity seem to be able to trigger sleep.

Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug

Researchers used photon-emission microscopy and laser fault injection to bypass security features on the Raspberry Pi…

Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected mysterious "little red dots" throughout the early universe that astronomers…

Our brain evolved from two primitive nervous systems that merged: Study

Researchers at Stanford University discovered that the human brain evolved from two separate primitive nervous systems…

North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes

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Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich

Mathematicians have finally proved a 22-year-old conjecture about "graph sandwiches," which involves positioning a…

I Vibed a Proof of Conway's Conjecture

A programmer used an AI model to formalize a proof of Conway's refinement conjecture about surreal numbers—a 50-year-old…

SpaceX’s Starship will orbit Earth for first time during next flight

Starship's next test flight will be its first orbital mission.

Meet the winner of Nikon's Small World in Motion video contest

Ning Xu of Tsinghua University captured tiny cilia beating in airways of a child with rare respiratory disorder.

If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious

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Physicists are scrambling to make sense of possible dark matter signal

Following the possible recent detection of a dark matter particle, researchers have already come up with a veritable…