An artist’s rendering of the spacewalk on the Polaris Dawn missionSpaceX SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission is a leap forward for private space flight – even though it demonstrates the same capabilities that government space agencies have had for decades. The mission...
A common eastern bumblebee gathering nectarNature Picture Library/Alamy In the first study of its kind, scientists have discovered that feeding bees absorbent bits of hydrogel boosts their chances of surviving exposure to toxic pesticides. As key pollinators, bees provide essential...
September 13, 20244 min readAn ‘Unidentified Seismic Object’ Shook Earth for Nine Days—Now We Know What It WasScientists have traced a baffling monotonous planetary hum that lasted for nine days back to a glacier in GreenlandBy Stephen Hicks, Kristian Svennevig...
Can effect come before cause in the quantum realm? Maybe notVink Fan/Shutterstock First comes cause, then comes effect – or does it? This order of events has previously been upended in the quantum realm, with the possibility of both A-causes-B...
The Cassini mission’s samples from Saturn’s moon Enceladus have signs of various organic molecules that could be among the ingredients needed for life to get started Source link...
Custom-made wool caps have enabled scientists to record electroencephalograms in awake cats for the first time, which could help assess their pain levels Source link...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned about the dangers of AIChona Kasinger/Bloomberg via Getty Images OpenAI has announced a new AI model, esoterically dubbed o1, that it describes as even more capable than anything that has come before – and...
Sabrina (Nadine Mills) in SupacellNetflix I have been watching Supacell on Netflix, a superhero drama that follows five Black south Londoners who suddenly develop superpowers. I won’t spoil the exact reason why, but it is to do with their genes....
Cave diver exploring Chan Aktun HaMartin Broen The Yucatán peninsula in south-east Mexico is riddled with holes. When a giant asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago near what is now the town of Chicxulub, the impact created a massive...
Unlike humans, dogs may know what they know through living rather than through thinkingShutterstock/Tom Wang The Happiness of DogsMark Rowlands (Granta Books) Do you spend a large chunk of your day looking at your dog, asking questions like “what do...
