Category: Science

New research says Earth has reached a point of no return in terms of climate control. By Chris Snelgrove | Updated 5 min ago What if it’s the end of the world and us no I know it? That’s a possibility put forth by a team of physicists at the University of Porto in Portugal...

Summary: Researchers have uncovered key organizational principles in the brain thanks to sophisticated mapping of neurotransmitter receptors. The team studying the macaque brain provided a deeper understanding of how our brain differentiates between internally and externally stimulated thoughts and emotions. Their comprehensive dataset, now publicly available, offers a unique perspective on the micro and macro...

A computer simulation of a part of the universe with and without axions, showing how the structure of the cosmic web of dark matter is less cumbersome if it contains axions. For scale, the Milky Way galaxy will sit inside one of the small green dots, which are called haloes. Credit: Alexander Spencer London/Alex Lagué....

This photo shows Jupiter’s moon Europa. – AFP/file A new study reveals that, if it formed at all, the core of Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa may have developed billions of years after the rest of it. The icy shell that surrounds Europa, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, is there, but scientists believe that beneath Europa’s ice-covered surface...

It’s not often that a scientific discovery manages to change the way we think about the entire history of mankind. An ancient footprint was recently discovered and it turns out that humans were walking about 30,000 years earlier than we previously thought. Bipedal Homo sapiens lived in South Africa, it has been proven after the...

This representative photo shows a view of planet Earth from space. — Unsplash/File Researchers have visited many places around the world in their never-ending search for medical breakthroughs, but this particular attempt to make an inventive discovery literally took them to another planet. Varda Space Industries, a California startup, successfully launched a 200-pound (90-kilogram) capsule...

from NASA June 17, 2023 The polar ice is indeed melting, a process that relates not only to the melting itself, but also to the balance between snowfall and melting of the ice. NASA satellite lasers monitor ice thickness in Antarctica and Greenland, identifying where the ice sheets are thinning and losing mass the fastest...

The East African Rift is a network of valleys that stretches from the Red Sea to Mozambique. Here we see cultivated fields in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia. (Image credit: LuCaAr via Getty Images) A giant rift is slowly tearing Africa, the second largest continent, apart. This depression, known as the East African Rift, is...

Physicists have discovered a new phase of matter, a “chiral Bose-liquid state.” This state, discovered by studying kinetic frustration in quantum systems, exhibits stable properties such as invariant electron spin and long-range entanglement. The discovery, which requires strong magnetic fields to observe, expands our understanding of the physical world and may have applications in error-tolerant...

CGI rendering of the dinosaur Fossilized remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur have been discovered on the Isle of Wight. It is the first new species of armored dinosaur discovered on the island since 1865 and belongs to the same family – the ankylosaurs. Although fearsome in appearance with its blade-like armor, the...