Back in 1907, American biologist Henry Van Peters Wilson discovered that sponges will re-form…
When a child is born, their brain is only a fraction of the size that it will one day grow to be. As many caretakers will recall, an infant’s skull is flexible and made of bone and fibrous material called sutures — colloquially known as soft…
“This is just not the right pathway forward,” Isaacman said.
A senior NASA official, speaking on background to Ars, noted that the space agency has experienced hydrogen and helium leaks during both the Artemis I and Artemis II prelaunch…
A recent study published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa explores new historical evidence of one of pre-colonial Dongola’s earliest rulers. Previously considered semi-legendary, the discovery of a document in which orders were issued…
When artificial intelligence (AI) is allowed to behave more like a human communicator, it becomes a more effective debate partner that reaches more accurate conclusions, scientists have found.
Human communication is full of stops and starts,…
A24 pulled back the curtain to The Backrooms, teasing an unsettling, must-see sci-fi horror movie from director Kane Parsons. Based on Parsons’s web series of the same name, The Backrooms follows a psychiatrist who ventures into an…
Loss of the Y chromosome in aging men is widespread and increasingly linked to serious diseases, challenging assumptions that the Y has little biological importance beyond sex determination. As men age, some of their cells gradually lose the Y…
Hundreds of millions of animals are killed on our roads each year. Now, scientists have revealed how these deaths could play an unexpected role advancing wildlife science and conservation.
For years, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of Earth’s first animals. How did simple organisms evolve into the diverse life we see today? A new study from MIT, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,…
Constant space launches are turning the atmosphere into a “crematorium” for satellites and other space debris.
That was the warning from a trio of astronomers and atmospheric scientists in a new essay for The Conversation, which outlines the…
