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Nickel Fingerprints Reveal What the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Was Made Of
The culprit may have been an unusually dry relic from the outer solar system.
An Archaeologist Flipped Over a Stone and Saw a Roman Guardian Spirit Staring Back After 1,600 Years
A rare sandstone spirit reveals the private faith of Rome’s northern frontier.
This Weird-Looking Drone Spins So Fast It Nearly Disappears
An experimental aircraft uses motion blur to become a faint haze in flight.
Scientists Built a Working Computer Out of Springs That Doesn’t Use a Single Watt of Electricity
This bizarre mechanical computer has no wires or chips.
Elephants May Hear Messages Through Ground Vibrations From More Than 10 Kilometers Away
Elephants may hear messages traveling through the ground from more than 10 kilometers away, thanks to massive ear bones and a muscle that can shut their ear canals.
Fruit Fly Sperm Is 40 Times Longer Than Human Sperm and Uses Opposite Lanes to Avoid Tangling
How Animals Prepare for War Long Before the Fighting Starts
From ants to apes, social species scout, bond, raid and retreat before conflict.
A Pristine Himalayan Trekking Destination Is Contaminated With Microplastics Nearly 5,000 Meters Above Sea Level
Plastic pollution may ripple downstream, threatening the human and wildlife communities that depend on glacier-fed waters.
Medieval Courts Put Murderous Pigs on Trial and the Records Are Stranger Than Fiction
Pig executions helped medieval communities punish negligence, display power and restore a threatened social order.
The U.S. Cleared a Giant Space Mirror to Shine Sunlight After Dark and Turn Night into Day
A startup’s orbital test could illuminate Earth — and darken astronomy’s future.
Scientists Did the Math on Cannibalism. Apparently Eating Other People Is Not Good for Your Health
New study suggests prion disease, not calories, made cannibalism an evolutionary dead end.
A New Habitat at the Bottom of the Ocean Is Waiting for Its First Aquanauts
Four scientists could soon live and work beneath the Florida Keys for days.
Tiny Underwater Waves in the Ocean Can Affect the Climate Thousands of Kilometres Away
Thousands of metres below the ocean’s surface, there are tiny waves moving through the water. Much like breaking waves at the beach, these small waves within the ocean must eventually break. When they do, they create turbulence and mixing, similar to what you feel from a big wave breaking on the beach. This might seem […]
One ChatGPT User Generated Nearly 28,000 Pregnancy Fanfic Stories and It Gets Even Worse From There
AI is turning fiction into an endless, private, personalized loop.
Archaeologists Found a Lost 1,600-Year-Old Byzantine City in Egypt’s Desert
A newly uncovered Byzantine city reveals everyday life in Egypt long after the pharaohs.
Nuclear Physicist Wants To Catch Hidden Space Nukes by Using Earth’s Radiation Belts
A proposed CubeSat inspector could verify a treaty that space powers mostly take on trust.
Can The Odyssey Be Mapped? How Scholars Have Traced Odysseus’s Travels
Attempts to transpose the locations of The Odyssey accurately to modern maps have proved difficult.
World’s Largest Paper Airplane With a 66-Foot Wingspan Just Flew Into the Record Books
Italian students turned a paper and glue craft into a remarkably serious aircraft.
A New AI System Can Hear Earthquake Signals Other Methods Miss
A new study shows the pros and cons of different model training methods.
Australia’s Cutest Banded Anteater Is Finally on the Mend After 40 Years of Conservation
From 300 animals to thousands the numbat is fighting back.