Despite the wide diversity of spider species, most orb-weavers seem to follow the same playbook when building their webs.
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Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?
In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.
It’s knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it’s not magic that powers AI though; it’s just math and data.
Scientists are still figuring out why tirzepatide causes weight loss. One theory is that they “accidentally” created a new hormone.
While executive function matures between 18 and 20 years of age, the brain keeps changing long afterward.
A deep dive into the chaotic journey of star formation.
Listen, set boundaries, and point them where to go.
Storytelling skills are not just for entertainment — practical exercises used by the cream of Hollywood can transform your work-life.
The problem of the electroweak horizon haunts the standard model of cosmology and beckons us to ask how deep a rethink the model may need.
Einstein tried to disprove quantum mechanics. Instead, a weird concept called entanglement showed that Einstein was wrong.
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“Spanish Stonehenge” contains 526 giant stones, three circular burial sites, a quarry, and four necropolises.
Well-preserved ancient plants and other finds at the Clarkia fossil beds hint at what kind of evidence any Martian life may have left behind.
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
Finding life beyond our Solar System requires understanding its host planet.
In the Saudi Arabian desert, the Al Naslaa rock formation looks completely unnatural. Its perfectly vertical split remains a mystery.
The idea of awarding legal personhood to nature has received renewed attention in the contemporary environmental justice movement, but much contention remains.
Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn’t make them the behavioral playbook.
In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.
We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.
Former President and CEO of Celebrity Cruises, Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, unpacks the leadership strategy behind her success.
Photons come in every wavelength you can imagine. But one particular quantum transition makes light at precisely 21 cm, and it’s magical.
As time goes on, dark energy makes distant galaxies recede from us ever faster in our expanding Universe. But nothing truly disappears.
“This will be one of the most important datasets since the mapping of the Human Genome.”
In the beginning, genes weren’t needed.
The major transformation in the where of modern workplaces is about to collide with a transformation in who is doing that work.
The DUNE project will beam tiny neutrinos across vast distances. But the first step involved moving a heavier material: 1 million tons of rock.
Sometimes, going “deeper” doesn’t reveal the answers you seek. By viewing more Universe with better precision, ESA’s Euclid mission shines.