As COVID-19 spread globally in 2020, many countries swiftly closed their borders to prevent the disease from entering. However, there was little scientific evidence to support the effectiveness of such measures.
While post-COVID research has…
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Why this year’s climate conditions helped Hurricane Beryl smash records
Hurricane Beryl, the Atlantic Ocean’s first hurricane in 2024, began roaring across the Caribbean in late June, wreaking devastation on Grenada and other Windward Islands as it grew in power. It’s now swirling on like a buzzsaw…
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Are Birds Really Reptiles? » ScienceABC
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Birds are reptiles. Birds, lizards, crocodiles, and other reptiles have all evolved from a single common ancestor. In other words, all reptiles are more closely related to each other on…
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New study upends prevailing theory on transportation of Stonehenge bluestones
A new study, published in the Quaternary Newsletter journal, suggests that the Bristol Channel was a glacial transport route.
This is evidenced by a large glacial erratic discovered in Limeslade Bay, which has its origins in North Pembrokeshire. A…
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Stunning trilobite fossils include soft tissues never seen before
Paleontologists studying rocks from Morocco have unearthed the most exquisitely preserved trilobite fossils yet discovered. The new lifelike fossils update our understanding of the evolution and biology of these extinct ocean-dwelling…
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Ancient Egyptian scribes’ work left its mark on their skeletons
Ancient Egyptian scribes’ life works are written on their bones.
Arthritis and other damage mark the scribes’ skeletons where the men sat cross-legged or kneeled hunched over papyrus scrolls, researchers describe June 27 in…
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The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why the species went extinct
Four thousand years ago, on an island off the coast of what is now Siberia, the world’s last woolly mammoth took its final breath.
Living on that island, isolated from other mammoths, could have led to fatal levels of inbreeding…
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What happens during the first moments of butterfly scale formation | MIT News
A butterfly’s wing is covered in hundreds of thousands of tiny scales like miniature shingles on a paper-thin roof. A single scale is as small as a speck of dust yet surprisingly complex, with a corrugated surface of…
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Can Humans Actually Multitask? » ScienceABC
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It is not possible to multitask. When we think we’re multitasking, we are actually just rapidly switching our focus from one task to another. The brain can only focus on one task at a…
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Can AI learn like us?
It reads. It talks. It collates mountains of data and recommends business decisions. Today’s artificial intelligence might seem more human than ever. However, AI still has several critical shortcomings.
“As impressive as ChatGPT and all these…
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