The famous cognition test was reworked for cuttlefish. They did better than expected.
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Darwin was right again—sort of.
James Gillray’s ‘plumb-pudding’ caricature is “probably the most famous political cartoon of all time.”
On the largest scales, galaxies don’t simply clump together, but form superclusters. Too bad they don’t remain bound together.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
An overfished planet needs a better solution. Fortunately, it’s coming.
Scientists at Washington University are patenting a new electrolyzer designed for frigid Martian water.
Even though no human has stepped foot on the Moon’s surface in 50 years, the evidence of our presence there remains unambiguous.
Find out the truth for yourself. If this past year has shown us anything, it’s how thoroughly we rely on high-quality expertise. As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, it […]
Whether they’re gas giants or rocky planets makes all the difference for life. Over the past 30 years, we went from not knowing if there were planets like ours around other […]
The sacrifices of early astronauts paved the way for Apollo’s successes, and so much more. In all of history, only 24 humans have ever escaped Earth’s gravity. The very first launch […]
The Hollywood blockbuster may have been right, if only 3.2 billion years off the mark.
The surface and atmosphere is colored by ferric oxides. Beneath a very thin layer, mere millimeters deep in places, it’s not red anymore.
Study shows ripples across a newly fertilized egg are similar to ocean and atmospheric circulations.
A new study finds that starlet sea anemones have the unique ability to grow more tentacles when they’ve got more to eat.
As we embrace green solutions, nuclear should absolutely be part of the equation. For thousands upon thousands of years, humans have been harnessing the power of nature to provide energy […]
Preferring “bases not places,” the U.S. does not really resemble the empires of old.
A new study bases its calculations on more than the great white shark.
Instead of just Afghanistan, the U.S. military ought to withdraw from the entire Middle East and much of the rest of the world.
The ultimate lesson from Dr. Birx is one we should never, ever repeat. About a year ago, as the world experienced the deadly “first wave” associated with the coronavirus pandemic, many […]
Scientists are befuddled by where the shark gets most of its food.
It looks like a busy hurricane season ahead. Probably.
As droughts threaten water supplies across the planet, some municipalities aim to utilize an untapped resource: sewage water.
Solar geoengineering ideas could weaken storms in both hemispheres, scientists find.
With launch costs dropping and enormous numbers of new satellites filling the sky, can’t we just do it all from space?
With launch, deployment, calibration, and science operations about to commence, here are 10 facts that are absolutely true.
A leading British space scientist thinks there is life under the ice sheets of Europa.
We frequently say it’s 2.725 K: from the light left over all the way from the Big Bang. But that’s not all that’s in the Universe.