Scientists have created the first artificial tongue that can sense and identify flavors entirely in liquid environments — mimicking how human taste buds work.
The achievement, described July 15 in the journal PNAS, could lead to automated…
Rogue Worlds May Not Be So Lonely After All, Europa Clipper Completes Key Test, and RFK, Jr., Pulls $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Funding
From planets roaming space to major shifts in health funding, catch up with this week’s news roundup.
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Name: Sabu Disk
What it is: A stone vessel
Where it is from: Saqqara necropolis, in Egypt
When it was made: Circa 3100 to 2900 B.C.
This delicate stone vessel was discovered in 1936 in the tomb of Sabu, an ancient Egyptian official buried…
Our universe is filled with floating nebulae, spinning planets and black holes. But if we closed our eyes and listened, what would these celestial objects sound like? Would we hear a faint whoosh? Or a low hum?
In actuality, if you went to outer…
A team of Chinese scientists may have cracked the secret behind the strange Canyon Diablo diamonds. Hexagonal in form rather than cubic, the process behind how these diamonds formed has, until now, remained elusive.
Diamonds are usually made of…
Tiny metallic beads hiding in deep Arctic mud have reignited a long-running argument about why Earth shivered 12,800 years ago. The new evidence comes from four sediment cores lifted out of Baffin Bay, between Greenland and Canada, that capture a…
Looking for a budget-friendly smart ring? Then you can’t miss this deal — the excellent Oura Ring Gen 3 is now 28% off at Amazon and at its lowest-ever price. This model has now been discontinued to make space for the newer Oura Ring Gen 4,…
Astronomers have discovered a giant planet named TOI-6894b orbiting a very small red dwarf star that has only one-fifth the mass of the Sun. Despite the star’s small size and low brightness, TOI-6894b is larger than Saturn but has only half…
Myloplus sauron, a newly described Amazonian fish, looks like trouble at first glance. Its round silver body wears a stark black stripe that tapers toward the belly, a pattern that recalls the fiery “Eye of Sauron” from The Lord of the…
The moon is still looking big and bright in the sky after last night’s full moon, so what can we see? Keep reading to find out what’s going on with the lunar phase now.
The lunar phase is a series…