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Saturday's new moon is a seasonal "black moon" - a rare phenomenon that occurs once every 33 months. Here's what that means and why it's a great night for stargazing.

A mysterious blazar that baffled scientists for years has been unraveled. VLBA imaging revealed a toroidal magnetic field powering a jet aimed at Earth, explaining how it can unleash neutrinos and gamma rays despite its ...

Lithium battery recycling offers a powerful solution to rising demand, with discarded batteries still holding most of their valuable materials. Compared to mining, recycling slashes emissions and resource use while unloc...

The FDA is warning consumers not to eat certain frozen shrimp products sold at Walmart after other products from the same company tested positive for a radioactive substance.

Keratin extracted from sheep wool has been found to help protect human teeth. It could be coming to your dentists office soon.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new moon that is small and dim in orbit around Uranus. The discovery brings the planet's total to 29, and scientists say there are probably more to be found

A new study introduces a safe, painless way to improve the sense of smell using radio waves. Unlike traditional treatments that rely on strong scents or medications, this noninvasive method stimulates olfactory nerves di...

A device that has been likened to a pacemaker for the brain has given a man with severe depression great relief

New research shows that the brain organizes hand movements using a kind of action alphabet stored in the supramarginal gyrus. This brain region builds complex actions like turning a key or using scissors by recombining s...

Directing radio waves at the olfactory system deep within our head seems to boost our ability to detect different smells

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have risen an extra 15 parts per million since 1960 due to the declining ability of the land and sea to soak up excess CO2

Imagine a whirlpool spinning in a river, or a tornado swirling through the sky. They don't just spin on the spot: they travel forward while maintaining that spiraling motion inside them. These twisting motions, calle...

Accurate predictions could accelerate the design of new experiments and bring practical fusion power closer. The post This AI Model Predicts Whether Fusion Power Experiments Will Work appeared first on SingularityHub.

Finalists in the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 competition capture beautiful images of animals and people oceans.

"Being able to send something out there would enable us to take a lot more precise data than we currently can."

One of the world's most popular sports, badminton is played by around 220 million people across the globe. As with other racket sports, a well-executed serve can establish a consequential advantage at the start of a ...

The experimental sensor could be groundbreaking.

Solitonic waves-waves that keep their shape and direction of motion for a long time-have intrigued physicists for almost two centuries. In real-world circumstances, these waves eventually die out due to energy loss. A te...

Baryons, composite particles made up of three quarks bound together via the so-called strong force, make up the most visible matter and have thus been the focus of numerous physics studies. Studying the rare processes vi...

MSU researchers discovered that microbes begin shaping the brain while still in the womb, influencing neurons in a region critical for stress and social behavior. Their findings suggest modern birth practices that alter ...

According to theoretical predictions, within a millionth of a second after the Big Bang, nucleons had not yet formed, and matter existed as a hot, dense "soup" composed of freely moving quarks and gluons. This st...

Many answers to online research questions show signs of being generated by AI chatbots, raising doubts about the validity of behavioural data collected this way