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The area of gravity’s effect around planets, stars and black holes is spherical in shape because they pull equally in all directions.
This question has taken scientists on an incredible…
The area of gravity’s effect around planets, stars and black holes is spherical in shape because they pull equally in all directions.
This question has taken scientists on an incredible…
Why do asthma, heart attacks and many other health conditions tend to strike in the early hours of the morning? One possible explanation for this mysterious phenomenon has been discovered by researchers from Prof. Gad Asher’s laboratory at the…
Some performance-car buyers can’t imagine a world without internal-combustion engines. Others want to rush headlong into the EV revolution.
Car designers and twin brothers Nikita and Iliya Bridan have a uniquely ambitious approach: Why not have…
Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell it what you want the photo to look like, and your robot photographer will present you with references to mimic. Pick your favorite, and…
Starting around 4,000 years ago, an elaborate fish-trapping system nourished expanding human populations in lowland Central America, a new study finds. The discovery of this massive construction project indicates that aquatic foods at…
A Finnish study found that prolonged standing at work had a negative impact on the research participants’ 24-hour blood pressure. In contrast, spending more time sitting at work was associated with better blood pressure. The study suggests that…
Roughly one-third of Americans could be exposed to a long-sought, newly identified breakdown product of some chlorine-based water treatments.
Although the toxicity of the by-product, an electrically charged molecule, is yet to be…
As transportation sectors like shipping and aviation remain difficult to decarbonize, a French startup claims to have developed a promising solution to reduce carbon emissions in these industries. Aerleum, founded in 2023, says its technology can…
Researchers at the Planetary Science Institute have compiled a 1:200,000-scale geological map of the lunar Orientale basin, focusing on identifying the most widespread and accessible occurrences of impact melt deposits from the basin-forming…
ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and other AI tools whip up impressive sentences and paragraphs from as little as a simple line of text prompt. To generate those words, the underlying large language models were trained on reams of text written…