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Scientists have uncovered 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils that hint at a mysterious, extinct marine animal equipped with an internal compass. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin studied these…

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great…

Astronomers have discovered a once-dormant supermassive black hole springing back to life in a very dramatic and spectacular fashion, acting as a “cosmic volcano” blasting out an eruption that stretched out for 1 million light-years. The…

Gold has long been regarded as one of the most chemically inert elements, a stable constant in both scientific instrumentation and commercial applications. In high-pressure laboratories, it serves a specific role: a passive material that…

If cows could use tools, imagine the scenes that might unfold: cutting wires to…

Scientists have been forced to rethink the intelligence of cattle after an Austrian cow named Veronika displayed an impressive – and until now undocumented – knack for tool use.

Witgar Wiegele, an organic farmer and baker from a small town in…

A tool-using cow is challenging what we know about farm animal intelligence

China is getting close to launching a large space telescope to orbit along with its Tiangong space station, and scientists have just completed a full observation simulation in preparation.

The bus-sized Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) —…

For the first time ever, a cow has been documented not only using a tool but selecting which part to use when scratching at different parts of her body.

Witgar Wiegele, an organic farmer and baker in Austria amid the slopes of the Eastern Alps,…

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines—and people can be trained to do it themselves using the power of brain scans and positive thinking, according to a new study published on Monday in…