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French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

Physicists Recreated the Way a Spinning Black Hole Leaks Energy, on a Tabletop

Researchers at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center have shown that a stationary tabletop circuit can amplify…

Humans Haven't Stopped Evolving

Harvard scientists analyzing the largest collection of ancient human DNA discovered that human evolution has accelerated…

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home

A meteorite crashed through a New Jersey home on July 16, 2024, and scientists have determined it is only the second…

Possible invasive species superspreader event near Strait of Hormuz

Over 1,500 ships are stalled near the Strait of Hormuz due to ongoing Iran conflict, creating a potential ecological…

Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein - how Italian children became so overweight

The Mediterranean diet was a blueprint for healthy living, yet Italian children are among the most overweight in Europe…

Clinical Failure Rates over the Decades: Yikes

Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota

A pioneering facility in Morris, Minnesota has begun producing low-carbon ammonia using wind power to generate hydrogen…

SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight

SpaceX will likely attempt to catch Starship back at the launch pad on its next flight.

Wind turbine is being used to produce zero-carbon "green ammonia" fertilizer

A wind turbine at the University of Minnesota's West Central Research and Outreach Center is now producing "green…

The Silurian Hypothesis (2020)

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Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

Hannah Fry, a mathematician at Cambridge University, has won the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for her outstanding…

SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure

The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue…

Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep

Researchers from the University of St Andrews and Université de Neuchâtel discovered that sperm whales release gas…

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video]

Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain

"Any potential damage will be assessed when it is safe to do so."

One of NASA’s crucial links to deep space is at risk of burning down

The Deep Space Network is our best way to communicate with spacecraft beyond Earth’s orbit, and one of its three…

Greenland's Ice Sheet Was Supposed to Be Rapidly Melting Away. It Hasn't Been

A scientific review synthesizing 66 Arctic lake-based glacier records reveals that most Arctic glaciers and ice caps…

Clothes made from living fungi can clean and repair themselves

Researchers have created a textile made from the parasitic fungus Cordyceps militaris, which is biodegradable and can be…

Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer

Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.

PySINDy – A package for the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems

PySINDy is a Python package for system identification that uses the Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems…

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene

Earth is heating up faster than at any time in its history

To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the…

How the God of Israel Was Born

Archaeological evidence and textual analysis of the Hebrew Bible reveal that monotheistic Judaism developed gradually…

Having a young biological age could help with weight loss

In a small study, restricting calories led to greater weight loss among people with a biological age younger than their…

Robot snakes searched for Venezuela earthquake survivors in collapsed buildings

US robotics researchers flew to Venezuela with snakebots after getting a call.

10 of the best pictures of solar eclipses throughout history

Humans have been observing solar eclipses for millennia – carving, painting, sketching and finally photographing as the…

Most neurons seem to be jacks-of-all-trades, not specialists

We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but a study in mice suggests that most…