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.

New observations reveal the possible origins of a mysterious object called Kamoʻoalewa. It could be the wreckage from an ancient impact on the moon.

Climate projections need to be pushed long past the established benchmark of 2100, researchers argue.

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.

Police officers rarely record nonevents, such as drawing a gun without firing. Failing to account for that missing information can obscure racial bias.

Inspired by the infamous snap of the Avengers rival Thanos, scientists set out to investigate the physics behind finger snapping.

Elements sprinkled on white dwarf stars suggest that the mantles of faraway rocky worlds differ greatly from their counterparts in our solar system.

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.

Surf’s up A laser experiment suggests that protons in outer space can accelerate by surfing shock waves within plasma, Emily Conover reported in “Shock waves give protons a boost” (SN: 9/25/21, p. 7). Reader Norma Frank wanted to know why the protons surf shock waves at all. Protons in the presence of such cosmic shock […]

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.

On Wednesday, the Einstein manuscript went for 11.3 million euros ($13 million) in Paris, five times its expected price.

Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy—a technique that measures the frequencies emitted by the nuclei of some atoms exposed to radio waves in a strong magnetic field—can be used ...

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 black hole's gravity. Some are completely ...

Scientists have searched for the tiny fundamental particles for years, and they may hold clues to some of the biggest questions in physics.

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 group describes ...

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 and sensing. ...

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. ...

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

Conventional theory that time can only move forward challenged by study, but the conditions for a ‘backward arrow’ are limited.

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 ...

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

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 earth compounds. This material, which is relatively easy to

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 storage and transfer in the manner of simple on

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 ...

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 experts.

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 paper in which the word ‘amplitude of the current’ has been omitted.The top court bench posted the matter for further hearing on 30 November.

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.

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 ...

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.

NEET 2021 Result Updates | Supreme Court has asked NTA to re-examine the question contested by a panel of three experts. The hearing has been next scheduled for November 30, further delaying the NEET 2021 Counseling Schedule.

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 249 out of 390 candidates in the PwD category.

Quantum mechanics + consciousness: There is nothing better than mixing two great mysteries to produce an even bigger one.

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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A Russian cargo craft carrying a new docking module successfully hooked up with the International Space Station Friday after a two-day space journey.

The rapidity of Arctic change has surprised researchers and the public alike.

Scientists have searched for the tiny fundamental particles for years, and they may hold clues to some of the biggest questions in physics.

There is no cause for alarm, despite reports that suggest solar storm could lead to danger

The Russian docking station is the second major upgrade from that country in recent months.

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 demonstrate our technological readiness in ...

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.

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 the motion of its host stars around each other. Yes, stars, plural, because it orbits two stars that orbit each other.

If you recall, NASA on Monday said a “sudden, unexpected release of a clamp band” used to secure the telescope to a launch vehicle adapter caused a...

NASA has given an update on the health of its next-generation space telescope and the date the agency is targeting for launch.

The temperature of the Arctic Ocean actually started rising at the beginning of the century

NASA said it’s aiming to bump Dimorphos slightly off its orbital path. The space agency...

Water was warming earlier than thought, researchers say

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 can help scientists better understand key physics.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station didn’t let a little thing like distance get in the way of gratitude or a good meal.

Nature - Nature highlights three key infographics from the week in science and research.

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NASA cleared engineers to begin fueling the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope for launch December 22.

Our telescopes have never detected a black hole more massive than twenty times the mass of the Sun. Nevertheless, we now know of their existence... The post Astronomers Have Discovered the Reason Behind the Mysterious Lack of Massive Black Holes in Telescope Data appeared first on SciTechDaily.

A plane has a pilot. A bus has a driver. A train has a conductor. But who controls a Mars rover? During the last seven... The post NASA Mars Perseverance Rover: New Software, New Drill Target, and an Existential Question appeared first on SciTechDaily.

The five-ton Prichal docking module arrived at the International Space Station at 10:19 a.m. EST, propelled by a modified Russian Progress propulsion compartment. They docked... The post New Russian Docking Module Arrives at International Space Station appeared first on SciTechDaily.

Imagine you’re at a picnic and just about to bite into your sandwich. Suddenly you spot a fly headed your way, homing in on your... The post Do Flies Really Throw Up When They Land on Your Food? appeared first on SciTechDaily.

Researchers are working on new ways to cure COVID-19 infections, using molecules that bind to three-dimensional folds in the virus’s genetic material. Credit: Martina Zafferani,... The post Taking New Aim at COVID-19: Treatments Against the Coronavirus’s Tangled Strands of RNA appeared first on SciTechDaily.

New approach solves a persistent problem of intermittency that has hindered use of the tiny light emitters for biological imaging or quantum photonics. Quantum dots,... The post MIT Chemists Get Quantum Dots To Stop Blinking appeared first on SciTechDaily.

The CSIRO’s 64-meter Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned on October 31, 1961. At the time it was the most advanced radio telescope in the world,... The post 60 Years After It First Gazed at the Skies, the Parkes Radio Telescope Is Still Making Breakthroughs appeared first on SciTechDaily.

A new study finds that investments in R&D on materials and chemistry were key, while economies of scale contributed somewhat less. Lithium-ion batteries, those marvels... The post Lithium-Ion Batteries Have Plunged in Cost by 97% – Here’s the Reasons Behind the Rapid Cost Decline appeared first on SciTechDaily.

A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant. The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has turned up... The post Newly Discovered Extreme “Ultrahot Jupiter” Blitzes Around Its Star – One Year Is Just 16 Hours Long appeared first on SciTechDaily.

Findings also include a distinctive planetary system with two gas giants. UCLA astronomers have identified 366 new exoplanets, thanks in large part to an algorithm... The post Astronomers Discover More Than 300 Possible New Exoplanets Using Advanced Planet Detection Algorithm appeared first on SciTechDaily.

It is the hardest known glass with the highest thermal conductivity among all glass materials. Carnegie’s Yingwei Fei and Lin Wang were part of an... The post New Ultrahard Diamond Glass Synthesized Using Carbon Buckyballs appeared first on SciTechDaily.

The hot springs at Pamukkale, Turkey, have produced the world’s largest deposit of travertine. The hot springs and thermal pools at Pamukkale, Turkey, have been... The post Turkey’s Cotton Castle – World’s Largest Deposit of Travertine appeared first on SciTechDaily.

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 neurological resources, which are located in the same brain region. Furthermore, motor training using a tool improves our ability to understand the syntax of complex sentences and -- vice-versa -- syntactic training improves our proficiency in using tools.

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 say the trend is likely to worsen.

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 travel faster than the speed of light. Thus, one of the fundamental principles of modern physics allows for secure data transfer.

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 louder noises. This vocal flexibility makes seals an excellent animal model for studying the evolution of human speech.

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. Their creation of a web-building playbook or algorithm brings new understanding of how creatures with brains a fraction of the size of a human's are able to create structures of such elegance, complexity and geometric precision.

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 distances than ever before.

Astrophysicists have investigated the past of Venus to find out whether Earth's sister planet once had oceans.

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 our DNA, so-called non-coded DNA, that appears to contribute to a difference which, despite all our similarities, may explain why our brains work differently.

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 resolve the 'missing mantle problem' and push back our knowledge of the solar system to just a couple of million years after it began to form.

While researchers have discovered numerous cell types in the brain, this atlas of all cell types in one area -- the primary motor cortex -- is the first comprehensive list and a starting point for tracing cellular networks to understand how they control our body and mind and how they are disrupted in mental and physical disorders.

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.

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 question the accepted mathematical model on the evolution of human speech.

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.

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 has lost more potassium than Earth but retained more potassium than the moon or the asteroid 4-Vesta; the results suggest that rocky planets with larger mass retain more volatile elements during planetary formation and that Mars and Mars-sized exoplanets fall…

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 million years ago.

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 suggests, is displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to destabilize the delicate marine food web and change the oceans as we know them.

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 at the end of the Cretaceous. The authors say that this devastating extinction event was a form of 'creative destruction' that allowed snakes to diversify into new niches, previously filled by their competitors.

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 personality in golden-mantled ground squirrels, which are common across the western U.S. and Canada.

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 gut of premature infants may play a key role. The research team found that the overgrowth of the gastrointestinal tract with the bacterium Klebsiella is associated with an increased presence of certain immune cells and the development of neurological damage…

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 how these potentially catastrophic events are predicted.

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 the galactic center. Cold planets seem to be present throughout our galaxy, even in the galactic bulge, where their existence was uncertain. The findings could improve our understanding of both planetary formation and its history in the Milky Way.

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 real world, finds a new study.

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 how and why it evolved, thus making widespread biological and technological applications possible.

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 would change existing stories of Earth's early atmosphere, which assumed that most changes in the early atmosphere were controlled by geologic or chemical processes.

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 Solar System.

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 rare postcard from Mars. On November 16, 2021, the Curiosity team commanded the rover to take two sets of composite images, capturing the scene at

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 newborn stars. They are formed when gas ejected by young stars collides with clouds of gas and dust nearby at high speeds. “Herbig-Haro objects occur

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 Iliad, and one of only a handful from across Europe. The ancient Roman villa complex was discovered beneath a farmer’s field by Jim Irvine, son

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), elastic modulus and thermal conductivity observed in any known amorphous material. Amorphous solids lack long-range order, exhibit many excellent mechanical properties and are often easy

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 system and one system with two short-period gas giants. “Discovering hundreds of new exoplanets is a significant accomplishment by itself, but what sets this work

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. It is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, which includes such famous nebulae as the Horsehead Nebula and the Orion Nebula. The Flame Nebula

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, for the first time on Mars, the shallow subsurface to around 200 m (656 feet) depth. Their results, published in the journal Nature Communications, suggest the

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 Sun, will become white dwarfs after they begin to run out of fuel, expand and cool into a red giant, and then lose their outer

A white dwarf in the binary system LAMOST J024048.51+195226.9 (J0240+1952 for short) completes a full rotation once every 24.93 seconds, making it the fastest spinning confirmed white dwarf, according to an analysis of data from the HiPERCAM instrument on the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias. The J0240+1952 binary system is located 2,016 light-years away in the

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 bleating tree frog (Litoria balatus) and the screaming tree frog (Litoria quiritatus) — were once thought to be one species, the bleating tree frog (Litoria

A recent paper on arXiv.org proposes to render full-body avatars with realistic appearance and motion of a person

The international Forward Search Experiment team, led by physicists at the University of California, Irvine, has achieved the

A team of researchers from the U.S. National Science Foundation Center for Sustainable Polymers based at the University

The film industry is going hand in hand with technological and innovative progress that boomed in the past

Sensitive teeth are bothering millions of people in the world. And while it seems like a small casual

E-cigarettes are not as safe as some people imagine. They are still addictive and can still be harmful

Electric cars have numerous advantages – from a small environmental footprint to an instant torque when you step

Simulations are an essential tool for advancing new algorithms in robot perception, learning, and evaluation. In the case

Rice University engineers have achieved a new benchmark in the design of atomically thin solar cells made of