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A group of tagged minke whales forage off the coast of the West Antarctic Peninsula. Duke Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing. Taken under NMFS permit #23095. Meagre giants hide in the ice-covered bays and fjords of the Antarctic peninsula. Antarctic minke...

The chancellor's broad commitment to net zero has been welcomed, but campaigners say the budget fell short on renewables and home insulation....

The legendary musician, activist and scientist was honored at Buckingham Palace this week...

The early universe may have been so violent that space-time itself fractured, releasing gravitational waves that astronomers say we may have already detected....

Tiny pieces of stone found in a rock formation in Western Australia may be the oldest evidence of a meteorite impact on Earth, dating back nearly 3.5 billion years...

A massive eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME, was detected escaping from the sun at 11:36 p.m. EDT on March 12, 2023....

The long-term effects on forests of more extreme climate events, plus other drivers of forest change, are highly uncertain. A new study of the tropical forests across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), spanning 19 years, found that after Hurr...

Shortly after coming home from the International Space Station, NASA's Nicole Mann spoke about trying to bring others into the field by sharing her journey....

A recent review study led by The University of Texas at Austin provides an overview of the planet's freshwater supplies and strategies for sustainably managing them....

Measuring the fuel supply on Odyssey, a decades-old spacecraft without a fuel gauge, is no easy task....

A new University of Illinois project is using advanced object recognition technology to keep toxin-contaminated wheat kernels out of the food supply and to help researchers make wheat more resistant to fusarium head blight, or scab disease, the crop's...

Think there's nothing to learn through suborbital flight and that space science is only done in orbit? Think again. Recently, a group of school students in Canada asked the question: do Epi-Pens work in space? These are epinephrine-loaded injectors us...

The highly contagious canine distemper virus is dangerous to dogs and wild life animals. It is also closely related to the equally highly contagious measles virus. Researchers at the University of Bern and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences have no...

Massive stars are sprinters. It might seem counterintuitive that stars 100 or 200 times more massive than our Sun could only survive for as few as 10 million years. Especially since smaller stars like our Sun can last 10 billion years. Massive stars have ...

Using solar energy to convert CO2 into synthetic fuels is currently one of the most promising technologies to achieve carbon neutrality with the embedment of sustainable energy into our modern economy. However, the efficiency of photocatalytic CO2 convers...

Having examined the impact of various factors on cryptocurrency returns, HSE economists found that fluctuations in cryptocurrency prices can be better explained by equity market risks than by factors specific to the crypto market, suggesting greater linka...

Without some downtime, artificial neural networks become catastrophically forgetful. The post Even Machine Brains Need Sleep appeared first on Nautilus ....

The rise in social entrepreneurship over the last 20 years denotes a major global economic and political movement. Social entrepreneurs generate substantial positive outcomes, but while they make up 2% or more of GDP in countries like Canada, Australia an...

Axiom Space is targeting November 2023 for the launch of its Ax-3 mission, which will send four private astronauts to the International Space Station for a two-week stay....

A new study published in Nature reports that a technology known as spatial omics can be used to map simultaneously how genes are switched on and off and how they are expressed in different areas of tissues and organs. This improved technology, developed b...

Imagine a universe with extremely strong gravity. Stars would be able to form from very little material. They would be smaller than in our universe and live for a much shorter amount of time. But could life evolve there? It took human life billions of yea...

The suits will provide greater flexibility and more protection from the moon's harsh environment, and will come in a wider range of sizes....

It's easy to envisage other universes, governed by slightly different laws of physics, in which no intelligent life, nor indeed any kind of organized complex systems, could arise. Should we therefore be surprised that a universe exists in which we wer...

A fossilized ankylosaur voice box reveals that these beasts may have sported a far more sophisticated vocal range than scientists originally thought....

An asteroid that was initially given 1-in-600 chance of wiping out an entire city on Valentine's Day 2046 is now expected to almost definitely whizz past us without incident....

Surging STIs are being driven by a "perfect storm" of factors in the U.S....

A group of three mustatil and later Bronze Age funerary pendants on a rocky outcrop, southeast of AlUla County. AAKSA / The Royal Commission for AlUla , Author provided Over the past five years, archaeologists have identified more than 1,600 monumental st...

Leka Sergeeva/Shutterstock Dog ownership is a lot of furry companionship, tail wags and chasing balls, and ample unconditional love. However, some dog owners are also managing canine pals struggling with mental illness. A newly published study in PLOS ONE...

Nearly eight years after its historic Pluto flyby, NASA's New Horizons probe is getting ready for another round of observations made from the icy edge of the solar system—and this time, its field of view will range from Uranus and Neptune to the...

There's something menacing about red dwarfs. Human eyes are accustomed to our benevolent yellow sun and the warm light it shines on our glorious, life-covered planet. But red dwarfs can seem moody, ill-tempered, and even foreboding....

The explosions happened in a dumping ground for chemical warfare, but other contaminants proved most toxic to marine life....

Trichloroethylene (TCE), a common and widely used chemical may be fueling the rise of the world's fastest growing brain condition Parkinson's disease....

Thanks to technological advances in microbial DNA analysis, University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered that mountaineers' boots aren't the only things leaving footprints on the world's tallest mountain....

Sexist stereotyping abounds in conservation science, says Robyn James. Here's how to change it....

Peru's first great empire, the Wari, stretched for more than a thousand miles over the Andes Mountains and along the coast from 600-1000 CE. The pottery they left behind gives archaeologists clues as to how the empire functioned. In a new study in the...

UNSW experts hope this evidence will ensure pregnant people are prioritised as a vulnerable group for mental health in future disease outbreaks....

Developed to detect statistical errors, statcheck reduces mistakes in reported P values by up to 4.5-fold....

Scientists discuss the legacy and future of GCaMP calcium indicators....

Carbon uptake from regrowth does not offset emissions from deforestation....

Using Lorentz transmission electron microscopy, one of the first direct observations of topological spin texture is described, in the pseudogap phase of a high-temperature cuprate superconductor based on YBa2Cu3O6+x....

Collisions between moons and planets may be a regular danger for possible extraterrestrial life...

Protocol to generate XX eggs from XY mouse embryonic stem cells....

The agreement is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for researchers and funders to use every idea and instrument available to preserve the health of the seas....

Venus appears to have volcanic activity, according to a new research paper that offers strong evidence to answer the lingering question about whether Earth's sister planet currently has eruptions and lava flows. Venus, although similar to Earth in siz...

Engineered bacteria offer biocontainment and antiviral properties....

Researchers have developed resilient artificial muscles that can enable insect-scale aerial robots to effectively recover flight performance after suffering severe damage....

In a groundbreaking announcement at the 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in The Woodlands, Texas, scientists revealed the discovery of a relict glacier near the equator of Mars. Located in Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus at coordinates 7 33'...

An explosion on the the sun spewed 'dark plasma' into space that resulted in a moderate G2-class geomagnetic storm on Wednesday (March 15)....

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