The planet’s green belt is shifting, and scientists are concerned: terrestrial vegetation is moving northeast at an accelerating rate
What if you could weigh every leaf on Earth and watch the balance point wander across the oceans? Using decades of satellite data, researchers…..
There is already a list of 45 planets that could come in handy if Earth were to find itself in a truly dire situation, and that number gives us plenty of room to dream up a Plan B.
A new astronomy study has turned a big question into a practical shortlist. After analyzing data on more than 6,000 known exoplanets, researchers identified…..
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There is already a list of 45 planets that could come in handy if Earth were to find itself in a truly dire situation, and that number gives us plenty of room to dream up a Plan B.
A new astronomy study has turned a big question into a practical shortlist. After analyzing…..
They have created a molecule never before seen in nature with an extremely strange half-Möbius topology, and even the electrons behave in a very unusual way inside it
If you twist a strip of paper and tape the ends together, you get a…..
What if DNA were telling a story of unequal attraction between sapiens and Neanderthals that is far more human, complex, and uncomfortable than we had imagined until now?
If you have ever looked at an ancestry report and spotted a small slice labeled…..
A potentially habitable super-Earth has been discovered just 10 light years away, and the big question of what might be waiting for us out there returns with a vengeance
A planet that might be able to hold liquid water has been confirmed orbiting one…..
After 500 years, they believe they have found the key that could solve one of the greatest mysteries of the Vitruvian Man, Leonardo’s most famous and enigmatic drawing.
For more than 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man has been treated like a…..
A new study suggests that human women and Neanderthal men interbred much more frequently than previously thought, which rewrites part of the history of our origins
If you have ever taken a DNA test and seen a small slice labeled “Neanderthal,”…..
Scientists want to build an instrument on the Moon capable of detecting black hole collisions, and the Moon’s near-total silence could be the key to the project’s success
What if the quietest place in the solar neighborhood became the best place to pick…..
Tardigrades have gone from being tiny, extremely rare creatures to becoming true guardians of the galaxy, in a story that combines extreme biology and planetary protection
Mars may look like a quiet desert planet, but new lab work suggests its dust…..
They froze a brain and then managed to reactivate its electrical activity—a phrase that sounds like science fiction, but is already becoming a central part of real scientific discourse
Scientists in Germany have shown that thin slices of adult mouse brain can be cooled…..
Scientists can’t believe it: an experimental drug helped mice with advanced Alzheimer’s disease regain their memory and ability to learn by restoring a key energy molecule in the brain
An experimental drug has restored memory and learning in mice that were already showing severe…..
Mobility
Malaysia replaced streetlights with roads that glow in the dark, but this futuristic idea—which promised to revolutionize night driving—ended up running into a very down-to-earth problem
Malaysia’s glow-in-the-dark road markings grabbed attention in Selangor, but Parliament now says the experiment is likely ending……
More and more drivers are wrapping their car keys in aluminum foil, and the reason has a lot to do with silent thefts that can occur in a matter of seconds without breaking in
If you have ever dropped your car keys on the little table by the front door and…..
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Economy
A zoo in the United States is building a $46 million African savanna, and the most striking feature isn’t the giraffes or the rhinos, but a hotel with a direct view of the habitat
Plans are taking shape for a major expansion at Wichita’s Sedgwick County Zoo that could…..
The 5,200 holes dug into a mountain in Peru are no longer a mystery, and the explanation changes what we knew about their ancient economy
For nearly a century, a strange band of thousands of holes carved into a Peruvian…..
It’s very rare to see so much gold in one place: gold bars and nearly 1,000 coins are being auctioned off in France, with a total value exceeding 2 million
In Angers, France, more than €2 million (roughly more than $2.3 million) in gold bars…..
It’s not about lithium or batteries: the problem driving up the cost of electric cars and wind power might lie in a tiny magnet, and a new AI has already found a way to do without rare earth elements
What if one of the biggest obstacles to cleaner cars and cheaper wind power is…..
What they have discovered in the Andes Mountains, between Argentina and Chile, is not just any mine, but a colossal deposit containing up to 84 billion pounds of copper, tens of millions of ounces of gold and silver, and a potential that is already revolutionizing the market
A copper, gold, and silver find in the Andes on the Argentina-Chile border is drawing…..
Russia intercepts a 2.8-ton fragment of the Aletai meteorite, valued at $4.2 million, which was being smuggled out of the country disguised as a simple garden ornament
Customs officers in Russia say they stopped a 2.8 ton chunk of the Aletai meteorite…..
Another theme park goes bankrupt and closes its doors “forever”: what has happened in recent weeks is more serious than it seems
Is Brean Theme Park really gone for good? Not exactly. The Somerset attraction entered liquidation…..
The battle for Panama’s ports is entering a new phase, and China has issued a stern warning
Most people will read this as another chapter in the power struggle around the Panama…..
Australia has just discovered the largest iron deposit ever recorded, weighing 5.7 billion tons, and the most impressive thing is not its size, but its age
This is not a story about a brand-new mountain of iron suddenly appearing in Australia……
A popular Alaska cruise line suddenly closes and cancels all future cruises, leaving reservations, refunds, and questions about what happened just before the season began up in the air
A cruise line known for taking travelers into quieter corners of Southeast Alaska has shut…..
Environment
The planet’s green belt is shifting, and scientists are concerned: terrestrial vegetation is moving northeast at an accelerating rate
What if you could weigh every leaf on Earth and watch the balance point wander…..
Meteorologists are beginning to talk about a possible super El Niño in the coming months, and that combination already points to maps filled with heat, extreme rainfall, and very rare phenomena
The tropical Pacific is starting to look restless again, and forecasters are paying close attention……
Sea levels could rise 27 centimeters more than predicted and put an additional 132 million people in the danger zone by 2100, according to a new and alarming estimate
A new study suggests many coastal risk assessments have been starting from the wrong baseline……
It stands over 100 feet tall, is nearly 200 feet wide at the base, and may be older than many famous monuments; now NOAA believes that this Maug coral may hold clues to the future of reefs
NOAA researchers working in the Mariana Islands have measured a colossal stony coral inside the…..
Alaska wants to resume helicopter bear “trapping” across an area of nearly 40,000 square miles to save the caribou, but the courts could block the plan before May
Alaska is once again in the spotlight for a wildlife strategy that sounds harsh on…..
The new paradigm of drought on the Colorado River reveals that vegetation consumes groundwater when it is hotter, which could leave less flow for millions of people
When summer turns hot and dry in the Colorado River’s headwaters, plants do not always…..
A reward of up to $200,000 is being offered to anyone who proposes a solution to stop the spread of these invasive mussels in California before the problem worsens
Boaters pulling into Shasta Lake think the hassle is traffic or the price of gas……
Wild boars have been wreaking havoc on crops for years in what appears to be a random manner, but 9,871 reports of damage now reveal that their incursions follow a surprisingly predictable pattern
If you’ve ever walked a field at sunrise and found fresh furrows where neat rows…..
