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science
Mile-long underwater volcano could erupt off West Coast this year, scientists say
Scientists are predicting that a mile-long volcano off the U.S. West Coast will erupt this year. The Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano located...
yahoo.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
A hearing aid for ... your nose?
Scientists have discovered a feedback loop in the brain's odor center that seems to put smells and sounds into context. The feedback loop may help...
sciencedaily.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Here's how climate change fueled the Los Angeles fires
In early January, the stage was set for a wildfire disaster in Los Angeles. A long, hot summer had dried out the plants and vegetation,...
kpbs.org
- 30+ days ago
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science
Fossilized vomit found in Denmark dates back 66 million years — prehistoric puke hailed as national treasure
Something smells rotten in the state of Denmark. Or, rather, it did 66 million years ago, Danish scientists say, announcing the recent discovery of...
nypost.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / space
The strange geoengineering idea with potential for significant fallout
Nuke the climate We all know that climate change is dangerous, which means it can be tempting to take drastic measures to tackle it. Such...
newscientist.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
The Problem with Problem Sharks
Veterinarian- turned-shark-expert Eric Clua knows how rare it is for a shark to attack a human. While dogs kill some 30,000 people annually, only 100...
nautil.us
- 30+ days ago
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science
An Amateur Astronomer Seemingly Spotted a New Asteroid. It Turned Out to Be a Tesla in Space
At the beginning of the year, scientists at the Minor Planet Center at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian, logged the discovery of...
smithsonianmag.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / space
QUIZ: Geography Extremes
Welcome to the Extreme Geography Quiz! Test your knowledge of Earth’s most extraordinary places—from the hottest and coldest locations to the...
geographical.co.uk
- 30+ days ago
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science
First independently developed jet breaks the sound barrier over the California desert
A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday, tearing through the air tens of thousands of feet...
apnews.com
- 30+ days ago
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learning / science
Human Thought Has a Speed Limit. Scientists Just Found It.
You might be surprised by the number. Although the human brain is capable of sifting through a billion bits of information per second, scientists recently...
popularmechanics.com
- 30+ days ago
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learning / science
Babies Learn Language Even Earlier Than We Realized, Study Reveals
Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing together clues about the world around them. If you've ever noticed your baby staring at you...
sciencealert.com
- 30+ days ago
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how-to / science / space
Rule of nerds? Pfft – try symmetry photography
Symmetry photography can be divisive. And perhaps that's because we teach photographers to be prejudiced against it, from the first time they pick up...
digitalcameraworld.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / space
One Of the Most Active Volcanoes In the World Is About to Blow.
Experts say an eruption between now and the end of 2025 is inevitable. The Axial Seamount—a volcano located 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and...
popularmechanics.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / space
Astronomical Photographer Captures His 'Best Photo' Yet of Tadpole Nebula After Decades of Attempts
Exceptionally talented Finnish astronomical nature photographer and visual artist J-P Metsävainio is very passionate about the cosmos. His latest...
petapixel.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Book Review: The Impossible Man
The mathematician Roger Penrose has many accolades for his work in extending our perception of the universe. While his research dominates most...
universetoday.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
News - Mammoth-Bone Structures Studied - Archaeology Magazine
Features November/December 2021 Scientists are uncovering fossilized footprints in the New Mexico desert that show how humans and Ice Age animals...
archaeology.org
- 30+ days ago
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science
Bowel cancer prediction test for IBD patients 90% accurate
A new method for detecting bowel cancer is more than 90% accurate at predicting which higher-risk people will develop the disease, according to research. About 500,000 people...
bbc.com
- 30+ days ago
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health / science
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly...
theconversation.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
The Future of Robot Swarms Is Here—And It’s Being Controlled by Just One Person. Here’s What DARPA Says
Researchers tested whether one person could command a robot swarm of drones and ground vehicles in complex missions....
zmescience.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Man of Science, Man of God
In The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley parodied the dogmatic belief held by many in Victorian England that faith and reason are incompatible. In 1860,...
jstor.org
- 30+ days ago
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science
How button boards are changing human-canine communication
A viral, online phenomenon claims to have further opened the door to human-canine communication. Buttons allow dogs to seemingly talk with their...
pbs.org
- 30+ days ago
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science
1,600-year-old Roman padlock with spring mechanism discovered in Germany — and it's tiny
A miniature gold lock dated to the third to fourth centuries was found by a metal detectorist in Germany. A metal detectorist in Germany has...
livescience.com
- 30+ days ago
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learning / science / technology
Why building big AIs costs billions – and how Chinese startup DeepSeek dramatically changed the calculus
State- of-the-art artificial intelligence systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude have captured the public imagination...
theconversation.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
People Without a 'Mind's Eye' Have Different Brain Wiring
People with aphantasia lack the ability to summon crisp images in their "mind's eye." But even though they can't visualize in this way, the...
realclearscience.com
- 30+ days ago
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job & work / science
San Diego drops in 2025 best-performing cities ranking
San Diego dropped to 71st among the country's best-performing cities, per an annual report from the Milken Institute. Why it matters: The 2025 ranking...
axios.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Kentucky Museum Stunned to Find WWII Japanese Grenade in Archives
Luckily, authorities confirmed it was safe — and now it’s heading for exhibition....
zmescience.com
- 30+ days ago
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health / science / space
Oceanic plate between Arabian and Eurasian continental plates is breaking away
An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the...
eurekalert.org
- 30+ days ago
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science
Step inside the secret lab where America tests its nukes
FRENCHMAN FLAT, Nev. — In the middle of a dry lakebed northwest of Las Vegas sits a lone section of a bridge, its steel girders bent...
kpbs.org
- 30+ days ago
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science
Romantic breakups linked to lower hippocampal brain volume in adults with childhood trauma
A recent study published in the European Journal of Neuroscience sheds light on how childhood maltreatment may leave lasting impacts on brain...
psypost.org
- 30+ days ago
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learning / science / space
Quantum theory and thermodynamics: No contradiction with new entropy definition, study says
It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more...
phys.org
- 30+ days ago
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science
Dead Sea an 'ecological disaster', but no one can agree how to fix it
An abandoned lifeguard cabin, a rusty pier and mangled umbrellas are all that is left of Ein Gedi, once Israel's flagship beach drawing international...
phys.org
- 30+ days ago
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science
Therapeutic Or Risky? What New Research Reveals About Cannabis & Brain Function
As cannabis use continues to rise globally, scientists are racing to understand its full impact on brain function. A groundbreaking study published in...
mindbodygreen.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Historic January 2025 snowstorm in the Southern U.S.
An Arctic blast plunged into the southeastern United States on Sunday, January 19, arriving just in time for the on-average coldest stretch of the...
climate.gov
- 30+ days ago
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science
The Legendary K-T Extinction Event and Its Effect on Dinosaurs
Approximately 66 million years ago, a catastrophic event occurred that reshaped life on Earth in dramatic ways: the K-T extinction event. Named after...
animalsaroundtheglobe.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Communicating with Gravitational Waves
When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe. Before that,...
universetoday.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
This Nimble New Drone Can Easily Track Humans Moving Through Dense Terrain
An agile new drone has demonstrated the ability to follow a person jogging through the forest and avoid thin obstacles like power lines, all while...
thedebrief.org
- 30+ days ago
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science
Aspirin therapy: Are you up to speed on the latest guidelines?
Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the United States, at a cost of about 700,000 lives per year. For decades, and as...
studyfinds.org
- 30+ days ago
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science
Meet the first actor with Down syndrome to star in an action movie
Actor Race Eberhardt is chasing after the bad guys and saving the day in a new movie called “Strait Undercover” — and he’s also making...
today.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Historian reveals emotional impact of White Ship disaster near Normandy in 1120
Harriet Strahl, a Ph.D. student in the Durham University history department, has shed new light on the emotional and societal repercussions of the...
phys.org
- 30+ days ago
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science
Elon just sent his most bizarre tweet ever… and its about Starliner’s crew
You might have thought our discussion of Starliner‘s crew was over, at least until the crew returned home on SpaceX’s Crew-9 Dragon. However,...
spaceexplored.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Hawaii wildfire victims spared from testifying after last-minute deal over $ 4B settlement
HONOLULU (AP) — Lawyers representing victims of a deadly Hawaii wildfire reached a last-minute deal averting a trial that was scheduled to begin Wednesday over how...
apnews.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / space
How Can Titan Maintain its Atmosphere?
Saturn’s moon Titan is perhaps one of the most fascinating moons in the Solar System. It’s the second largest of all the moons...
universetoday.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Why members of two of EPA's influential science advisory committees were let go
Members of two of the Environmental Protection Agency's most influential advisory committees, tasked with providing independent scientific guidance to the head of the agency, found...
npr.org
- 30+ days ago
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science
Recapping RFK, Jr's First Day of Confirmation Hearings in 5 Takeaways
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., faced a barrage of questions from U.S. senators today during his confirmation hearing for his nomination for secretary of the...
scientificamerican.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
New Purdue bankruptcy deal cuts out Sacklers’ legal immunity
Fifteen US states have reached a $ 7.4 billion (£6 billion) settlement-in-principle with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family who own it. It looks to...
chemistryworld.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
'Scary looking' ancient fish found washed up on Texas beach
The alligator gar measured between 3-and-a-half to 4 feet in length. Alligator gars are typically regarded as river monsters, with the giant fish...
chron.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / space
Experiment with 37 dimensions shows how strange quantum physics can be
Particles of light that effectively exist in 37 dimensions at once have been used to test an extreme version of a quantum paradox. “This experiment...
newscientist.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / space
The hidden power of the smallest microquasars
Researchers found for the first time evidence that even microquasars containing a low-mass star are efficient particle accelerators, which leads to a...
sciencedaily.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Alpha baboons: hormone study reveals surprising costs of being a dominant male
Researchers working with baboons in Kenya wanted to find out where alpha males exert the most energy. A recent study on baboons has found that...
discoverwildlife.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
The Reason Unmanned Aircraft are Called “Drones”
It has a little something to do with bees—a fact you can drop around the watercooler the next time your coworker wants to talk...
mentalfloss.com
- 30+ days ago
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