Taiwan Indigenous farmer revives climate-resilient millet
Indigenous farmer Banu Ismahasan walks through a golden field of tall stalks in southeastern Taiwan, harvesting by hand the grain heads of an ancient crop resistant to extreme weather.
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Nations grapple with loss of 1.5C target at UN climate summit
For a decade, the 1.5C goal has served as the north star of climate action, a line nations pledged to hold to avoid the worst ravages of a warming planet.
SpaceX's Starship returns from orbit and is captured by launch pad arms in a dramatic first
SpaceX's Starship made a triumphant return to Earth on Saturday, caught in midair by giant mechanical arms where its journey began 22 hours earlier.
ALMA reveals three star-forming cores at different stages inside one gas clump
Astronomers have revealed three dense cores at different evolutionary stages within the massive star-forming region G40.282−0.219, shedding light on the physical and chemical differences among cores within the same massive dense clump.
How Wealth Inequality Emerged in This Prehistoric Culture
The graves tell a story of growing inequality The post How Wealth Inequality Emerged in This Prehistoric Culture appeared first on Nautilus .
Scientists might have discovered what makes AI so effective at chess
AI’s comfort with complexity could be key to its chess-playing prowess
Alzheimer’s may start shrinking two brain regions years before memory loss
Johns Hopkins scientists have uncovered hidden warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease that may appear up to a decade before memory loss begins. Brain scans revealed that two regions involved in memory and emotion start shrinking before the hippocampus, the area doctors typically
Scientists discover a bizarre paradox among endangered penguins
A groundbreaking drone survey has revealed a startling split in the fate of New Zealand's endangered Erect-crested penguins. While one population has remained stable for decades, another has declined by more than 40%, apparently due to a combination of predators, worsening
Dinosaurs may have been eating seaweed 100 million years ago
Dinosaurs may have been snacking on seaweed and other ocean foods more than 100 million years ago, according to surprising new evidence hidden in their fossilized teeth. Researchers discovered chemical signatures suggesting that coastal dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals
Physicists use laser light to unlock a crystal's hidden electrical powers
Scientists have discovered how to use flashes of laser light to organize tiny electrical regions inside a crystal, solving a decades-old mystery about how the material behaves. The laser-induced alignment lasts just a trillionth of a second, but the breakthrough could open the
Euclid discovers ancient cosmic beacons from the dawn of time, shining like a trillion suns
ESA’s Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 ancient quasars, including two record-breaking objects that shone with the brightness of a trillion Suns when the Universe was just 670 million years old. Powered by supermassive black holes, these extraordinary cosmic beacons
Is this iconic black hole image accurate? New study delivers an independent result
On April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration revealed the first picture of a black hole. The object is at the center of a galaxy known as M87, about 55 million light-years away.
AI discovers a hidden heart signal that could predict sudden death
Scientists have uncovered a hidden warning sign in routine heart scans that could predict sudden cardiac death before it strikes. The AI-powered discovery outperformed conventional screening methods, potentially revealing thousands of people at risk of a fatal heart malfunction
Urban expansion causes ecological collapse in streams in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area
The advance of urbanization in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area in Brazil is causing the collapse of food webs in local streams. A study published in August in the journal Nature Cities reveals that the impact of the metropolis goes far beyond a simple reduction in species.
A dead star is flashing radio waves every 8 minutes, and its partner looks a lot like the sun
Since 2022, astronomers have been puzzling over a new kind of cosmic object called long-period radio transients. These are objects that emit bright flashes of radio waves into space every few minutes to every few hours. Some have been traced back to binary systems consisting of
Does your culture shape how you look at art? What an eye‑tracking study in Sudan revealed
Today, Old Dongola is an abandoned settlement on the banks of the Nile in northern Sudan. Hundreds of years ago, however, this place looked very different.
NASA's Voyager 1 closes in on a light-day in interstellar space for a new distance record
NASA's Voyager 1 is about to become humanity's first object to reach one light-day from Earth as it pushes ever deeper into interstellar space.
A cosmic magnifying glass could reveal the same supernova two more times in roughly 70 years
Thanks to the gravitational lensing caused by a massive galaxy cluster and high-resolution images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered an exploding star when the universe was 4.9 billion years old. The discovery paper, posted to the arXiv preprint
Some of the oldest rocks ever discovered shed light on Earth's early history
Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old, according to estimates. However, rocks dating back to the planet's earliest days are extremely rare. Hence the excitement over the discovery in northern China of some of the oldest known rocks on Earth, dating back 3.95 billion
Do ice baths help muscles recover after a workout? A new study suggests not
"It isn’t clear that ice baths really are the best way to recover post exercise"
World's largest freshwater lake is recovering after decades of decline
Lake Baikal in Siberia holds around 20% of the world's surface freshwater, making it the most voluminous freshwater lake (Lake Superior on the United States–Canada border is the largest by surface area). This makes the lake one of the most important environments for
Giant, Fruit-Eating Bats Are Shrinking
Leaving Madagascar with smaller pollinators The post Giant, Fruit-Eating Bats Are Shrinking appeared first on Nautilus .
Archaeologists shed new light on wealth and status among Europe's early herders
How unequal were prehistoric societies? And how can archaeologists measure wealth in cultures that left behind no written records, no tax registers and no census data?
See new images from the Euclid space telescope, spanning one billion cosmic objects
The images are part of Euclid’s first major data release