Global temperatures may continue to rise even after human CO₂ emissions stop. The temperature change that follows is known as the zero emissions commitment (ZEC), and it is often assumed to be close to zero. A study led by the Met Office Hadley Center, with co-authors from
An international team of paleontologists, including researchers from McGill University, has discovered "remarkably large" rodent fossils in the pit of a mine in southern Thailand. The finding, published in Scientific Reports, provides a new perspective on the early
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Scientists have discovered that vitamin C may help prevent potentially cancer-causing chemicals from forming in the stomach after eating foods containing nitrates and nitrites. A new mathematical model suggests that taking vitamin C after meals could reduce these harmful
Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic connection to spinal degeneration and found that an existing osteoporosis drug can prevent damaging mineral buildup in zebrafish spines. The discovery could pave the way for new treatments that slow or prevent a major cause of
A recent reanalysis of the outsize black hole galaxy UHZ1 using existing X-ray data and new infrared observations challenges a previous groundbreaking claim. Three years ago, this galaxy made news for hosting an unusually massive and heavily dust-obscured black hole formed
NASA scientists warn that the rapidly intensifying 2026 El Niño could surpass the historic 1997-98 event, which triggered devastating weather extremes around the world. Satellite data reveal striking similarities between the two, raising the possibility of major rainfall and
The strange, wildly tilted magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune have puzzled scientists since NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft explored the planets in the 1980s. New simulations suggest that extreme conditions deep inside these icy giants create unusual electrical properties that
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.
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 made a triumphant return to Earth on Saturday, caught in midair by giant mechanical arms where its journey began 22 hours earlier.
Scientists have discovered a strange stellar pair more than 5,000 light-years away, where a dead star spinning every eight minutes produces mysterious radio pulses while orbiting a Sun-like star. The breakthrough also revealed massive magnetic storms on the companion star,
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.
The graves tell a story of growing inequality The post How Wealth Inequality Emerged in This Prehistoric Culture appeared first on Nautilus .
A surprising discovery from Rockefeller University suggests that a common amino acid could play a powerful role in protecting against cancer and viral infections. Scientists found that low arginine levels interfere with the immune system's ability to recognize dangerous cells,
AI’s comfort with complexity could be key to its chess-playing prowess
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
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 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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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 is about to become humanity's first object to reach one light-day from Earth as it pushes ever deeper into interstellar space.
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
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
