A new species of sail-backed dinosaur has been discovered on the Isle of Wight, an island off the coast of England.
Named Istiorachis macarthurae, the dinosaur was roughly the size of an American bison and weighed around one tonne, roaming…
A new species of sail-backed dinosaur has been discovered on the Isle of Wight, an island off the coast of England.
Named Istiorachis macarthurae, the dinosaur was roughly the size of an American bison and weighed around one tonne, roaming…
The question has probably crossed your mind: if you fed a machine enough selfies, old school pictures, and maybe that awkward headshot you took in bad lighting—could it recreate a “twin” of you? Not just a generic avatar, but something…
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A 10-µm-wide microchip can generate light with any desired direction, polarization, and intensity, which will be handy for future quantum technologies.
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An estimated one out of every 10 people in the U.S. has some kind of food allergy, which adds up to more than 33 million Americans. Peanut allergies are among the…
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, a scholar of religion at Wesleyan University, presents a thorough diagnosis of this exact pathology in her 2022 book Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race, which came out in paperback last year. It…
SpaceX is gearing up for its latest launch out of Vandenberg Space Force Base on Friday morning.
The company is planning to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at 8:44 a.m.
The rocket will reportedly deliver 24 Starlink…
A Bearded Dragon sits in a tank at the Ashville Game Farm and Exotic Zoo on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 in Greenwich, N.Y. (Photo by Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union via Getty Images)
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In late 2024, the CDC reported a
A six-planet parade — sometimes called a planetary alignment — will adorn the pre-sunrise morning sky on Friday, Aug. 22, with four of them visible to the naked eye. Venus, Jupiter and Saturn will be easy to see, while tiny Mercury is…
A team of astronomers has found what appears to be a previously undiscovered moon orbiting Uranus. If confirmed, this finding would mean the gigantic blue-green ice planet would have 29 moons. The discovery was made using the James Webb Space…