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On Monday and Tuesday, you may be able to catch a glimpse of Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars all at once....

This is a fake AI-generated image. Daniel Kempe via Twitter/Midjourney AI tools can help us create content, learn about the world and (perhaps) eliminate the more mundane tasks in life but they aren't perfect. They've been shown to hallucinate inf...

According to predictions made nearly a decade ago, we should be riding around in self-driving vehicles today. It's now clear the autonomous vehicle revolution was overhyped. Proponents woefully underestimated the technological challenges. It turns out...

A vulva by any other name ... causes confusion and unnecessary suffering. The post Why Doctors Can't Name Female Anatomy appeared first on Nautilus ....

Life on Earth has been around for a long time—at least 3.8 billion years. During that time, it evolved significantly. Why has biodiversity here changed so much? A new study proposes a startling idea. Some major diversity changes are linked to supern...

Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka explains how her unconventional way of combining public health and conservation is helping to bring mountain gorillas back from the brink after years of population decline...

Some scientists say the analysis provides new evidence supporting the hypothesis that the virus that causes COVID-19 spilled over from an animal — but falls short of definitive proof....

Memory of methyl marks enables epigenetic inheritance down generations....

Managing water and climate in tandem would protect water resources, reduce disaster risks, lower greenhouse-gas emissions and assure equitable access....

In a scientific first, a team led by physicists at the University of California, Irvine has detected neutrinos created by a particle collider. The discovery promises to deepen scientists' understanding of the subatomic particles, which were first spot...

Research in languages other than English is critically important for biodiversity conservation and is shockingly under-utilised internationally, according to an international research team....

Targeting the virus that infects the disease-causing bacterium could be a cheap way to prioritize populations for vaccination campaigns....

For the first time, world-leading researchers from the fields of healthcare, the ocean and the environment have collaborated to quantify plastic's considerable risks to all life on earth. The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health pre...

How many invitees guarantee at least a certain number all know each other? Formula is first major improvement since 1935....

A strange comet-like object discovered over 5 years ago was the first known visitor from another solar system. Its movement though space was so odd that scientists struggled to explain it, until now....

A device that uses supersized rubidium atoms could make it possible to transmit outputs from quantum computers through standard optical fibres. That in turn could make it easier to build networks of quantum computers...

Small can be beautiful, especially when designed well....

Genetic sequencing of Beethoven's hair shows that he didn't have lead poisoning after all, but it doesn't shed light on why he lost his hearing...

Flies and mice fed a high-protein diet were less likely to be awoken by movement during sleep than animals on a regular diet...

An unusually virulent strain of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, primarily found in cat faeces, has been reported in marine animals for the first time...

A new study suggests that 'Oumuamua, the mysterious visitor that whizzed through our solar system in 2017, may have been merely a small comet from another star...

Ocean animals are growing sicker from ingesting too much plastic...

In the climate crisis, wetlands have more economic value than new development...

Fires are often set to clear land near roads in the Amazon. Johannes Myburgh / AFP via Getty Images Conservationists breathed a sigh of relief when Luiz Incio Lula da Silva won Brazil's presidential election in the fall of 2022. His predecessor, Jair ...

A small set of Virgin Orbit employees will return to work after a week-long furlough as the company attempts to raise money to remain solvent. The post Virgin Orbit begins "incremental"; return to work as it seeks new funding appeared first on Spac...

From table-top gardens and purifying plants to those with lovely lacy leaves, here are our favorite houseplant trends for 2023....

Bose-Einstein condensate sheds light on cosmic evolution The post An expanding universe is simulated in a quantum droplet appeared first on Physics World ....

Cait Cullen reviews The Milky Way: an Autobiography of our Galaxy by Moiya McTier The post If the Milky Way could talk, what would it say? appeared first on Physics World ....

Luis Caffarelli has been awarded the most prestigious prize in mathematics for his work on nonlinear partial differential equations, which have many applications in the real world...

Within a month of the Big Bang, a second cosmic explosion may have given the universe its dark matter, new research suggests....

The rapid rise of transformative agreements between publishers and research consortia is providing extra impetus to the Electrochemical Society's long-standing ambition to "Free the Science" The post Electrochemical Society powers ahead with o...

A professor lends worms to students, takes them to sewage processing plants and encourages them to answer their own questions about garbage. Sometimes, they even make a career out of it....

People who "choke" under pressure underperform in high-stakes situations out of stress and worry. But what causes this phenomenon?...

A new experimental platform combines functional MRI with calcium-sensitive photometry to study large-scale brain networks in rats The post Novel imaging platform reveals the neuronal basis of a drifting mind appeared first on Physics World ....

Mora Leeb was 9 months old when surgeons removed half her brain. Now 15, she plays soccer and tells jokes. Scientists say Mora is an extreme example of a process known as brain plasticity....

It's an intriguing finding that suggests life as we know it may have been seeded by asteroids and meteors....

Russia is using a dam it controls to release water from Ukraine's massive Kakhovka Reservoir. It's one of dozens of cases where the war is limiting access to safe water....

The American researcher was recognized for his central role in inventing, standardizing and commercializing the ubiquitous networking technology. The post Bob Metcalfe, Ethernet Pioneer, Wins Turing Award first appeared on Quanta Magazine...

Luz Rovira / Flickr , CC BY-NC-ND In the 19th century, Charles Darwin was one of the first to notice something interesting about domesticated animals: different species often developed similar changes when compared to their ancient wild ancestors. But why...

New research reveals serious privacy flaws in fertility apps used by Australian consumers emphasising the need for urgent reform of the Privacy Act. Fertility apps provide a number of features. For instance, they may help users track their periods, identi...

Relative of _Chunia pledgei_ named _Ektopodon serratus_ (top left), with _Wakaleo oldfieldi_. Reconstruction of the early Miocene Kutjumarpu faunal assemblage by Peter Schouten , CC BY-SA Imagine a vast, lush forest dominated by giant flightless birds and...

The TOLIMAN space telescope will search for exoplanets next door, and has contracted with EnduroSat to make that happen. The post A New Mission Will Search for Habitable Planets at Alpha Centauri appeared first on Universe Today ....

The series of fortunate astrophysical events that gave us Ceres. The post The Dwarf Planet on Our Doorstep appeared first on Nautilus ....

The universe may be flat, but could still be shaped like a doughnut, weird patterns in leftover light from the Big Bang suggest....

MASCOT / DLR / JAXA How did life come about? The answer to this question goes to the very heart of our existence on planet Earth. Did life simply arise from chemical reactions among organic compounds in a primordial soup left after Earth clumped together ...

What had multiple eyes and a hard shell? A trilobite, that's what....

A new study shows that the number of cases and anti-drug resistance of the infectious fungus Candida auris increased between 2019 and 2021....

Asteroid 2023 DZ2 will zip between Earth and the moon's orbit on March 25 and may be visible with the right telescope....

The prehistoric monument Stonehenge was built up to 5,000 years ago on Salisbury Plain in England, but its ultimate purpose remains a tantalizing mystery....

Scientists have found uracil, one of the key building blocks for RNA, on the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu...