Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this...
A nationwide analysis of community-level floodplain development found that over two-million acres of floodplain were developed over the past two...
The interactions between quantum spins underlie some of the universe’s most interesting phenomena, such as superconductors and magnets. However, physicists...
Sea otters are famed for their luscious pelts, but the fur almost led to their extinction. By 1938, only a...
Avian influenza A(H5N1) virus, which spread to cattle and infected 14 people this year, was detected using virome sequencing in...
Thanks to advances in microchips, today’s smartphones are so powerful they would have been considered supercomputers in the early 1990s....
New research shows Ice Age teens from 25,000 years ago went through similar puberty stages as modern-day adolescents. In a...
The movement of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the surface of the ocean, where it is in active contact with the...
Batteries lose capacity over time, which is why older cellphones run out of power more quickly. This common phenomenon, however,...
Have you ever tried to convince a conspiracy theorist that the moon landing wasn’t staged? You likely didn’t succeed, but...
by Matthew R. Edwards The universe might not be as you think. Until recently, the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model...
Two researchers at the University of Warsaw developed a quantum-inspired super-resolving spectrometer for short pulses of light. The device designed...
