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The idea of artificial intelligence overthrowing humankind has been talked about for decades, and in 2021, scientists delivered their verdict on whether we’d be able to control a high-level computer…
In a recent study submitted to High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, a team of researchers from Japan discuss strategies to observe, and possibly predict precursor signatures for an explosion from Local…
It begins with plants sucking synthetic contaminants up from the soil. Then insects munching on those greens get their fill of nanoplastics, followed by anything that eats them. Just as…
Doctors in Ireland removed 50 batteries from a woman’s gut and stomach after she swallowed them in an apparent act of deliberate self-harm. The woman, 66, was treated at St.…
Records of solar eclipses from a millennium and a half ago have allowed scientists to refine measurements of Earth’s changing rotation. A painstaking review of historical documents from the Byzantine…
Researchers have found an effective method of getting people to cut down on their drinking: Highlight the increased risk of cancer that comes with it, and pair that with counting…
The opportunity to conceive, carry and give birth to a biologically related child is a deep desire for many women and their partners. Since the introduction of IVF in 1978,…
Most albatrosses mate for life but shy males who avoid confrontation are more likely to get dumped, researchers said Wednesday, adding it was the first time personality had been shown…
Amazon, Borneo, Congo, Daintree. We know the names of many of the world’s largest or most famous rainforests. And many of us know about the world’s largest span of forests,…
Wars begin, continue and end for a whole host of different reasons, but the personalities of the people in charge have a role to play. According to a new study…
Putting cute dogs in an MRI machine and watching their brains while they watch home movies might sound like a rollicking good time just for its own sake. As a…
Archeologists recently uncovered an example of a “vampire” burial in Poland with a sickle around the body’s neck to keep it from rising from the grave. But there are other…
Some scientists are becoming clam ‘whisperers’ to better predict when our planet’s climate will tip over into dangerous territory. A tight-lipped bivalve might sound like an odd creature for researchers…
Clues within ancient animal poop challenge the current prevailing theory that humans tamed plants before beasts. Researchers found the preserved dung in question alongside buried remains of ancient hunter-gatherer dwellings…
The Moon‘s gravitational pull on our planet’s tides is just one of Earth’s many steady thrums of life. Now researchers have found that lunar cycles not only synchronize the timing…
Hundreds of millions of years ago, a carnivorous critter gorged on a feast of prehistoric amphibians – and puked up its meal afterward. Now, paleontologists have unearthed the regurgitation and…
A core principle of Einstein’s general theory of relativity has just passed its most stringent test yet. Using a specially designed satellite, an international team of scientists measured the accelerations…
The devastating destruction that’s happening across the Amazon might be what comes to your mind first when thinking about deforestation – but it’s by no means the only place where…
Grinding away at a job while everybody else sleeps can put your mental health at risk. According to new research, confining your dining to daytime hours might help reduce the…
Motivation to act on climate change often comes in one of two forms; the metaphorical threat of a stick or the lure of a carrot. For years now, scientists have…
Built in the 1980s, the Balbina Dam is one of dozens of large dams across rivers in the Amazon Basin. Such dams might leave behind seemingly green patches of forest,…
A Los Angeles County resident with a severely weakened immune system has died of monkeypox, the Los Angeles Department of Public Health reported Monday (September 12). The US Centers for…
As any frustrated parent knows, there’s no magic way to get a crying baby to calm, let alone fall asleep. But a small new study has now highlighted a simple…
Past research in humans shows that damage to our squishy brain tissue is already done with even just one knock to the head. But repeated concussions can also thicken the…
Dramatic footage showed killer whales using a rare hunting technique to trap and kill a seal in the icy waters surrounding Antarctica. The video, part of the BBC’s new Frozen…
We have exactly one world, in all the Universe, that we know for a fact to be hospitable to life: ours. So when we’re looking for habitable planets in other…
Few things in the Universe keep the beat as reliably as an atom’s pulse. Yet even the most advanced ‘atomic’ clocks based on variations of these quantum timekeepers lose count…