U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, on Friday (June 5) unveiled his legislative directives for Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill.
Those directives make beating…
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, on Friday (June 5) unveiled his legislative directives for Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill.
Those directives make beating…
The Colorado River has been carving its way through northern Arizona for millions of years, but what really stops people in their tracks are the rocks of the Tonto Group in the Grand Canyon walls themselves.
From the rim you can trace ribbons of…
University of Oxford physicists have successfully created the first-ever real-time, three-dimensional simulations of a ‘bizarre’ phenomenon where three high-energy lasers intersecting in an empty vacuum appear to…
In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have observed tiny nematode worms forming “superorganisms” by creating towering structures in the wild, a behavior previously only observed under experimental conditions. This phenomenon, captured by…
Astronomers in Hawaii have discovered a new kind of explosion, and they’re the most energetic stellar explosions ever recorded.
Meet “extreme nuclear transients” (ENTs): when supermassive black…
The universe rarely fails to amaze. One of its latest surprises—nicknamed the “Einstein zig-zag”—reveals a stunning arrangement of galaxies and a distant quasar. Together, they produce a gravitational lens with six distinct images,…
Not getting enough iron during pregnancy could raise the risk of babies being born intersex, a study suggests.
Scientists have found for the first time that pregnant mice deficient in the mineral are more likely to give birth to males who have…
A recent study published in AGU Advances sheds light on the increasing energy imbalance of our planet. For years, Earth’s energy imbalance—the difference between the energy Earth receives from the Sun and the energy it radiates back into…
DNA from nine prehistoric skeletons, dated as far back as about 9,000 years ago, shows that early inhabitants near the southern Cape Province of South Africa experienced minimal population changes over many millennia.
The site, known as Oakhurst…