A planet orbiting extremely close to a white dwarf may have formed inside its star – this could be the origin of some of the most promising worlds beyond our solar system to search for life Source link...
The Xingu Indigenous Territory in the Amazon may contain over 900 square kilometres of dark earthLeo F Freitas/Getty Images Rich soil in the Amazon cultivated over centuries by Indigenous communities may store billions of tonnes of carbon, suggesting that the...
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.There are more than 500 species of sharks in the world’s oceans, from the 7-inch dwarf lantern shark to whale sharks that can grow...
AI Reaches Silver-Medal Level at This Year’s Math OlympiadDuring the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad, Google DeepMind debuted an AI program that can generate complex mathematical proofsBy Manon Bischoff While Paris was preparing to host the 33rd Olympic Games, more than...
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in half to causing a gravitational wave apocalypse – and subjects them to the laws of physics to...
dpa picture alliance archive/Alamy The International Space Station (ISS), as well as being the most expensive object ever made, can also lay claim to being one of the most cooperative endeavours in scientific history. Since the beginning of the century,...
A humerus fragment excavated at Mata Menge in Flores, IndonesiaYousuke Kaifu Hominins living on an Indonesian island 700,000 years ago were even smaller than Homo floresiensis, the so-called hobbits that lived on the same island much more recently. Newly analysed...
It’s not all eating bits of food floating in mid-air and introducing suction toilets to fascinated Earthlings – crews on the International Space Station (ISS), which will be coming to an end soon, have serious work to do. Since the...
The scale and tragedy of the U.S. opioid epidemic have few comparisons. More than 100,000 people have died of overdoses every year since 2021. Most drug overdose deaths have a single culprit: the extremely potent synthetic opioid fentanyl.But the most...
Baby Boomers Should Stand Up for New York City’s Congestion Pricing PlanBy canceling congestion pricing for drivers in New York City, the governor of New York State will hurt many retirees, who need the mass transport investments the move promisedBy...
