Concerns about companies distorting their environmental record are nothing new. Environmental ads were flagged as deceptive back in 1971.
In one part of the Falkland Islands, up to 8 percent of the famously faithful birds ditch partners in years when the ocean is warmer than average.
Named for the glacier that feeds India’s longest river, the Gangotri wave spans up to 13,000 light-years and bridges two of our galaxy’s spiral arms.
New observations reveal the possible origins of a mysterious object called Kamoʻoalewa. It could be the wreckage from an ancient impact on the moon.
When all available quantum states are full, atoms can’t scatter light, thanks to the Pauli exclusion principle, new experiments show.
Climate projections need to be pushed long past the established benchmark of 2100, researchers argue.
Scientists have mapped the location of key natural carbon stores. Keeping these areas intact is crucial to fighting climate change.
A massive star with an orbiting partner star ejects on average twice as much carbon, an element crucial for life, into space compared with a solo star.
Using cellulose extracted from wood pulp, researchers have created a greener alternative to traditional glitter.
Police officers rarely record nonevents, such as drawing a gun without firing. Failing to account for that missing information can obscure racial bias.
A 75-kilometer-long corridor of chunks of glass in the Atacama Desert probably formed when a comet exploded 12,000 years ago, a study finds.
Inspired by the infamous snap of the Avengers rival Thanos, scientists set out to investigate the physics behind finger snapping.
A new book shatters illusions that human meddling with nature has only just begun.
Elements sprinkled on white dwarf stars suggest that the mantles of faraway rocky worlds differ greatly from their counterparts in our solar system.
The Last Ice Area may be the final refuge for summer sea ice and the creatures that depend on it. Saving it is an ambitious goal with many hurdles.
Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses how analogies can help break down complex science concepts, such as a new particle accelerator that will search for rare isotopes.
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams will help scientists unlock the inner workings of atomic nuclei and explore how elements formed in the cosmos.
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Scientists had previously found that migratory birds are getting smaller as temperatures rise. Dozens of tropical, nonmigratory species are too.
A mineral theorized to exist in the mantle was found hiding in a diamond. Dubbed davemaoite, it could explain where some of Earth’s heat comes from.
A rare manuscript, handwritten by the legendary physicist Albert Einstein, has been sold for a record amount of $13 million in an auction.
On Wednesday, the Einstein manuscript went for 11.3 million euros ($13 million) in Paris, five times its expected price.
Lin Meng has been named the grand prize winner of this year's Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists for research she conducted on how both global warming and bright…
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Blazing along at space-record speeds that would get it from Earth to the Moon in under an hour, NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its 10th close approach to the sun…
Watch as eight stars skirt a black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun in these supercomputer simulations. As they approach, all are stretched and deformed by the…
Scientists detected human-made 'ghost particles' for the first time at the Large Hadron Collider, bringing us closer to uncovering the role of these particles in the universe.
Scientists have searched for the tiny fundamental particles for years, and they may hold clues to some of the biggest questions in physics.
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How seabirds navigate across thousands of miles of seemingly featureless ocean is one of nature's mysteries.
A team of researchers at Stanford University has developed a way to conduct the famous double-slit experiment at the molecular level. In their paper published in the journal Science, the…
Just as a voltage difference can generate electric current, a temperature difference can generate a current flow in thermoelectric materials governed by its "Peltier conductivity" (P). Now, researchers ...
A team of researchers from TU Delft managed to design one of the world's most precise microchip sensors. The device can function at room temperature—a 'holy grail' for quantum technologies…
A team of researchers with the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, has found evidence that indicates that stands of trees can reduce land surface area temperatures in…
Receivers combining a superconducting hot electron bolometer (HEB) with a reference oscillator are the work horses of supra-terahertz astronomy, observing for example star formation and galaxy evolution. ...
The area between a pair of large black holes on the verge of colliding could provide the conditions to create dangerous bubbles of "true vacuum"
New research suggests that the flow of time at a quantum level doesn’t have to go in just one direction. Quantum systems, in certain conditions, might move
New study shows the boundary between time moving forward and backward may blur in quantum mechanics. A team of physicists at the Universities of Bristol, Vienna, the Balearic Islands and…
Conventional theory that time can only move forward challenged by study, but the conditions for a ‘backward arrow’ are limited.
A team of physicists at the Universities of Bristol, Vienna, the Balearic Islands and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI-Vienna) has shown how quantum systems can simultaneously…
The international Forward Search Experiment team, led by physicists at the University of California, Irvine, has achieved the first-ever detection of neutrino candidates produced by the Large Hadron Collider ...
Trees bud earlier in US cities compared to rural areas, likely due to artificial light from street lamps, advertising boards and more, an expert in Berkeley, California, says.
Education News: The top court was hearing a plea filed by Wajda Tabassum and 21 others NEET candidates alleging discrepancy and patent error in question number 2 of t
Physicists have detected “ghost particles” in the Large Hadron Collider for the first time. An experiment called FASER picked up telltale signals of neutrinos being produced in particle collisions, which…
By combining two-dimensional materials, researchers create a macroscopic quantum entangled state emulating rare earth compounds. Physicists have created a new ultra-thin two-layer material with quantum properties that normally require rare…
Satellite images of dozens of cities have shown that trees awake from their winter dormancy sooner in brightly lit urban areas. By comparing trees in large cit
Researchers from Osaka University have improved the transfer efficiency between quantum information carriers, in a manner that's based on well-established nanoscience and is compatible with upcoming advanced communication technologies. Information…
India News: NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Thursday agreed before the Supreme Court to set up a committee of three experts to decide the correctn.
A team of researchers, including scientists from the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU), have solved ...
Researchers have developed a jelly-like material that can withstand the equivalent of an elephant standing on it, and completely recover to its original shape, even though it's 80% water.
The bench recorded his submission that after the process is done the testing agency would file an affidavit before this court giving details of evaluation done by the panel of…
Solicitor general Tushar Mehta’s assurance to the Supreme Court came on a petition by 22 aspirants who asked the top court to order the NTA to delete the erroneous NEET-UG…
The Supreme Court was hearing a plea filed by Wajda Tabassum and 21 others candidates alleging discrepancy and patent error in question number 2 of the Hindi version of Physics…
When it comes to the selection of subjects at the higher education level, however, he has opted for computer science and is currently pursuing computer science engineering from IIT Delhi
The plea sought direction to NTA to delete the question from the physics section due to discrepancy in Hindi translation and declare fresh NEET UG results.
Luis Foà Torres and Sergio O Valenzuela delve into the ongoing mystery of graphene’s perplexing non-local response and the “valley Hall effect”
From Albert Einstein's notes to a record-breaking Frida Kahlo to a 6.6-million-euro triceratops—auction houses have lately seen a string of record-breaking items going under the hammer and through the ...
NTA on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it will examine the alleged translation error in the NEET question paper.
NEET UG 2021: National Testing Agency has agreed to examine alleged error in the translation of one Physics question. SC has adjourned the hearing till Nov 30.
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The National Testing Agency agreed before the Supreme Court on Thursday to examine the alleged er
The bench noted the girl student has secured an All India Rank of 1721 out of 2684 candidates qualified in the PwD category and concerning Maharashtra she has secured rank…
Scientists have finally demonstrated a quantum effect that can make invisible gas capable of stopping light from scattering.
Quantum mechanics + consciousness: There is nothing better than mixing two great mysteries to produce an even bigger one.
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Musk’s reaction came on a tweet by a NASA handle on the launch of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission.
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Engineering teams have completed additional testing confirming NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is ready for flight, and launch preparations are resuming toward Webb's target launch date of Wednesday, ...
A Russian cargo craft carrying a new docking module successfully hooked up with the International Space Station Friday after a two-day space journey.
Scientists detected human-made 'ghost particles' for the first time at the Large Hadron Collider, bringing us closer to uncovering the role of these particles in the universe.
The rapidity of Arctic change has surprised researchers and the public alike.
Future missions will settle the matter once and for all
Scientists have searched for the tiny fundamental particles for years, and they may hold clues to some of the biggest questions in physics.
A node module billed as the final Russian element of the International Space Station docked with the station Nov. 26.
There is no cause for alarm, despite reports that suggest solar storm could lead to danger
A Russian cargo craft carrying a new docking module has successfully hooked up with the International Space Station after a two-day space journey
The Russian docking station is the second major upgrade from that country in recent months.
A Russian cargo craft carrying a new docking module has successfully hooked up with the International Space Station after a two-day space journey
A NASA spacecraft the size of a golf cart has been directed to smash into an asteroid, with the intention of knocking it slightly off course. The test aims to…
The new module docked in an automatic mode under the control of Flight Control Center specialists on the ground and cosmonauts onboard the ISS
After launching a new docking node module to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday,…
The DART spacecraft will deliberately crash into a 530-foot-wide asteroid called Dimorphos in September 2022 at a speed of almost 15,000 miles per hour.
An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new exoplanets orbiting an evolved sun-like star known as HD 137496. The newly found extrasolar worlds, identified using NASA's Kepler…
Astronomers have found a new exoplanet in a fairly weird way — not because of its orbital motion around its host star, as is usually the case, but because of…
A spacecraft is on its way to nudge a distant asteroid.
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The international Forward Search Experiment team, led by physicists at the University of California, Irvine, has achieved the first-ever detection of neutrino candidates produced by the Large Hadron Collider ...
NASA has given an update on the health of its next-generation space telescope and the date the agency is targeting for launch.
A big space rock would have thrown planets of the Trappist-1 system out of sync.
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Water was warming earlier than thought, researchers say
NASA has released an update on the health of the James Webb Space Telescope after a recent incident that could've caused a serious delay to its launch schedule.
Physicists have detected “ghost particles” in the Large Hadron Collider for the first time. An experiment called FASER picked up telltale signals of neutrinos being produced in particle collisions, which…
Psychologists studied the relationships between thousands of cats and their owners to develop a detailed questionnaire you can use to analyse your pet - and find out if it is…
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station didn’t let a little thing like distance get in the way of gratitude or a good meal.
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Scientists estimate that the Trappist-1 planets are in near perfect balance and could potentially host life as they are similar to Earth and formed in a similar way.
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NASA cleared engineers to begin fueling the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope for launch December 22.
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Electrocatalyst converts CO2 into multicarbon products. A new electrocatalyst called a-CuTi@Cu converts carbon dioxide (CO2 ) into liquid fuels. As reported by a team of... The post New Electrocatalyst Produces…
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Volcanic eruptions may have triggered abrupt climate changes contributing to the repeated collapse of Chinese dynasties over the past 2,000 years, according to new research. The study also illustrates how…
Research has revealed a correlation between being particularly proficient in tool use and having good syntactic ability. A new study has now shown that both skills rely on the same…
Researchers have developed an injectable therapy based on nanofibers that has enabled paralyzed mice with severe spinal cord injuries to regain the ability to walk.
A new study strengthens the case that climate change has been the main cause of the growing amount of land in the western U.S. destroyed by large wildfires. And researchers…
Scientists have built a plant that can produce carbon-neutral liquid fuels from sunlight and air. The next goal will be to take this technology to industrial scale and achieve competitiveness.…
To counter hacking, researchers have developed a new system based on the concept of 'zero-knowledge proofs', the security of which is based on the physical principle of relativity: information cannot…
Astronomers and geologists have made the first estimates of rock types that exist on planets orbiting nearby stars. After studying the chemical composition of 'polluted' white dwarfs, they have concluded…
Can baby seals adapt their voices to sounds? Researchers have now studied seal pups only a few weeks old. The pups lowered the pitch of their voice when they heard…
Researchers show it is possible to improve specific human brain functions related to self-control and mental flexibility by merging artificial intelligence with targeted electrical brain stimulation.
Researchers discovered precisely how spiders build webs by using night vision and artificial intelligence to track and record every movement of all eight legs as spiders worked in the dark.…
Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to become more frequent and more intense over the past 40 years according to new research, raising sea levels and…
Signs of a planet transiting a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy may have been detected. The finding opens up a new window to search for exoplanets at greater…
The ability to detect and react to the smell of a potential threat is a precondition of our and other mammals' survival. Using a novel technique, researchers have been able…
Astrophysicists have investigated the past of Venus to find out whether Earth's sister planet once had oceans.
Astronomers have detected a very unusual variable radio signal from towards the heart of the Milky Way, which is now tantalizing scientists.
Our DNA is very similar to that of the chimpanzee, which in evolutionary terms is our closest living relative. Stem cell researchers have now found a previously overlooked part of…
A lunar probe launched by the Chinese space agency recently brought back the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years. Now an…
The dwarf planet Vesta is helping scientists better understand the earliest era in the formation of our solar system. Two recent articles use data from meteorites derived from Vesta to…
Researchers have found that variability between brain cells might speed up learning and improve the performance of the brain and future AI.
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Can dragonflies migrate thousands of miles across the Indian Ocean, from India via the Maldives to Africa, and back again? An international research team has used models and simulations to…
The discovery of genes that directly cause obesity could pave the way for treatments for a condition that affects more than 40 percent of American adults.
On Earth, river erosion is usually a slow-going process. But on Mars, massive floods from overflowing crater lakes had an outsized role in shaping the Martian surface, carving deep chasms…
Scientists have shown that orangutan call signals believed to be closest to the precursors to human language, travel through forest over long distances without losing their meaning. This throws into…
While research has shown that poor cardiovascular health can damage blood flow to the brain increasing the risk for dementia, a new study indicates that poor mental health may also…
A new study found that the Kuroshio Current Extension is sensitive to global climate change and has the potential to warm greatly with increased carbon dioxide levels.
New research finds that children who eat more fruit and veg have better mental health. The study is the first to investigate the association between fruit and vegetable intakes, breakfast…
Researchers measured the potassium isotope compositions of Martian meteorites in order to estimate the presence, distribution, and abundance of volatile elements and compounds, including water, on Mars, finding that Mars…
In a surprising new finding in mice, researchers have discovered that many genes linked to human cancer block the body's natural defense against malignancies.
A new method for quantifying plant evolution reveals that after the onset of early seed plants, complexity halted for 250 million years until the diversification of flowering plants about 100…
Scientists don't really know what kills many cancer patients, but fruit fly research could provide answers. By following flies with tumors up to the point of death, researchers have discovered…
The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic algae. But human-induced climate change, a new study…
Dark energy, the mysterious force that causes the universe to accelerate, may have been responsible for unexpected results from the XENON1T experiment, deep below Italy's Apennine Mountains.
A new study suggests that all living snakes evolved from a handful of species that survived the giant asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs and most other living things…
Engineers developed a way to grow tiny replicas of the pancreas, using either healthy or cancerous pancreatic cells. Their models could help researchers develop and test potential drugs for pancreatic…
Humans acknowledge that personality goes a long way, at least for our species. But scientists have been more hesitant to ascribe personality to other animals. A study has now documented…
Climate change is not only a human problem; animals have to adapt to it as well. Some 'warm-blooded' animals are shapeshifting and getting larger beaks, legs, and ears to better…
Extremely premature infants are at a high risk for brain damage. Researchers have now found possible targets for the early treatment of such damage outside the brain: Bacteria in the…
A simple mechanism could underlie the growth and self-replication of protocells -- putative ancestors of modern living cells -- suggests a new study. Protocells are vesicles bounded by a membrane…
Scientists have studied an ancient supervolcano in Indonesia and found such volcanoes remain active and hazardous for thousands of years after a super-eruption, prompting the need for a rethink of…
As we live and breathe, ancient-looking fish known as bowfin are guarding genetic secrets that that can help unravel humanity's evolutionary history and better understand its health.
Researchers combined observations and modeling to infer the distribution of cold planets in the Milky Way. The results suggest that this distribution is not strongly dependent on the distance from…
In an effort to understand how the internal state of the body influences the brain's decision-making processes, scientists analyzed the data from a previous study pre-clinical study. They found that…
What transpires in comedies and cartoons when a character has a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is not far off from people's perceptions of the…
Animals as small and soft as tardigrades seldom have legs and almost never bother walking. But a new study finds that water bears propel themselves through sediment and soil on…
Researchers have discovered a universal mathematical formula that can describe any bird's egg existing in nature -- a significant step in understanding not only the egg shape itself, but also…
Cutting 20 percent of sugar from packaged foods and 40 percent from beverages could prevent 2.48 million cardiovascular disease events (such as strokes, heart attacks, cardiac arrests), 490,000 cardiovascular deaths,…
A new analysis of 2.5-billion-year-old rocks from Australia finds that volcanic eruptions may have stimulated population surges of marine microorganisms, creating the first puffs of oxygen into the atmosphere. This…
A human space mission would be viable if it doesn't exceed four years, an international research team concludes in new research.
A new class of exoplanet very different to our own, but which could support life, has been identified by astronomers, which could greatly accelerate the search for life outside our…
Physicists from the Forward Search Experiment (FASER) Collaboration have observed six neutrino interactions during a pilot run of FASERν, a compact emulsion detector installed at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC)…
Members of NASA’s Curiosity rover mission team have combined two versions of the black-and-white images of Martian mountains from different times of the day and added colors to create a…
The 41,500-year-old oval-shaped pendant from Stajnia Cave in Poland is the oldest decorated jewelry found in Eurasia. The ancient pendant made from mammoth bone was found in 2010 along with…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed HH 45, a Herbig-Haro object embedded in the nebula NGC 1977. Herbig-Haro objects are small bright patches of nebulosity associated with…
A team of scientists from Jiangnan University, Queen Mary University of London and the University of Oulu has identified a causal link between an increased levels of the symbiotic gut…
The 1,700-year-old mosaic — part of the ruins of the ancient Roman villa complex in Rutland, England — is the first example in the UK displaying scenes from Homer’s The…
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission launched November 24, 2021 at 1:21 a.m. EST on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space…
The new form of carbon glass synthesized by scientists from Jilin University and elsewhere consists of many randomly oriented clusters with diamond-like order and possesses the highest hardness (101.9 GPa),…
The bright stellar jet is being emitted by Parengo 2042, a protostar that resides within the reflection nebula NGC 1977. NGC 1977 lies approximately 1,500 light-years away in the direction…
Using photometric data from NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission, astronomers have identified 747 unique planet candidates and 57 multiplanet systems; of these candidates, 366 have not been previously identified, including one multiplanet…
Paleoanthropologists have discovered and examined the fossil lumbar vertebrae of Australopithecus sediba, a small hominin that lived about 2 million years ago. Their results suggest that Australopithecus sediba would have…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have spotted several ‘proplyds’ and ‘globulettes’ in the Flame Nebula. The Flame Nebula resides about 1,400 light-years away in the constellation of Orion.…
A new long-term study led by Edith Cowan University scientists further supports the hypothesis that coffee intake may be a protective factor against Alzheimer’s disease, with increased coffee consumption potentially…
Using seismic data collected by the SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure) instrument aboard NASA’s InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander, planetary researchers have resolved,…
Paleontologists working in Brazil have uncovered the fossil of an ornithuromorph bird that lived during the Early Cretaceous epoch. Kaririavis mater lived in what is now Brazil some 115 million…
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers have investigated unusual X-ray activity in three white dwarfs: KPD 0005+5106, PG 1159-035 and WD 0121-756. Most stars, including the…
Hydrogen is the most abundant element. When a neutral hydrogen atom gets blasted with energy, its electron can be boosted to a larger orbit with a higher energy level. Then…
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The two new frog species have been scientifically described with the help of citizen scientists and their recordings through the FrogID app. The two new species — named the slender…
Neural text-to-speech (TTS) models are successfully used to generate high-quality human-like speech. However, most TTS models can be
A recent paper on arXiv.org proposes to render full-body avatars with realistic appearance and motion of a person
You probably have heard about a special kind of alloy called amalgam. This type of material is formed
The international Forward Search Experiment team, led by physicists at the University of California, Irvine, has achieved the
Seven Earth-sized planets orbit the star TRAPPIST-1 in near-perfect harmony, and U.S. and European researchers have used that
A team of researchers from the U.S. National Science Foundation Center for Sustainable Polymers based at the University
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have developed a noninvasive way to remove faulty brain circuits that could
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Rice University engineers have achieved a new benchmark in the design of atomically thin solar cells made of