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NASAs SpaceX Crew-12 astronauts have returned to Earth after 237 days in space, traveling more than 100 million miles and completing over 3,792 orbits while conducting research to prepare for future missions to the Moon ...

A new species of giant waterlily identified with the help of social media and satellite photos is just one of three discovered in the past few years

Octobers skies are packed with celestial surprises, from Jupiter disappearing behind the Moon to two meteor showers lighting up the darkness. NASA highlights four must-see events, including shooting stars from Halleys Co...

A new study that tracked dogs' aging by reading tiny chemical tags on their DNA found that larger dogs aged more quickly.

A 9 million-year-old capybara tooth was found in the Atacama Desert, a surprising find given that these rodents love water.

Five natural compounds, including curcumin and berberine, were tested for their effects on cancer cells and healthy muscle cells. All disrupted cancer cell energy production and pushed many of the cells into a non-dividi...

The Paper2Agent system could make it easier to understand papers, reproduce results, and generate hypotheses. The post This Tool Turns Scientific Articles Into Agents That Answer Questions and Collaborate appeared first ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the farthest "fast radio burst" ever seen, providing more clues about these mysterious explosions.

In a study led by Tampere University, researchers have developed a new lensless imaging method that produces precise quantitative data on living cells from a single image. The compact system can be placed inside a standa...

A study of 4,500+ adults shows overweight or obese BMI at dementia diagnosis is linked to significantly lower mortality risk, highlighting metabolic reserves.

Precision phenotyping combining audiometric data and genetics predicts sensorineural hearing loss far more accurately than standard billing codes.

Russia says it is winding down precautionary measures taken after a lab worker at a plague research institute died. But what made officials think these were needed at all?

Predicting a system's final outcome from its initial state is the ultimate goal for many physicists. In certain complex systems, however, this goal is thwarted by chaos, where even the subtlest tweaks to the initial ...

A new study reveals psychopathic traits like boldness, meanness, and disinhibition drive distinct, complex language patterns.

Scientists have developed various AI tools to measure people's biological ages. Would you use one?

US President Donald Trump has declared that artificial intelligence should now be called super intelligence. Columnist Jacob Aron explains where that term came from and explores whether its many historical meanings apply...

When OpenAI announced its surprise solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, it produced one proof for humans and one for computers - however, they don't match

Quantum technologies are considered key technologies of the future. However, research in this field requires not only scientific expertise but sometimes also highly specialized laboratory conditions. Bose-Einstein conden...

From spiders spinning their webs to the manufacturing of textiles, the formation of fibers from liquids plays an important role in both nature and industry. Yet accurately predicting the properties of such fibers remains...

The sea surface temperature in a key El Niño region has exceeded 86 degrees F for the first time on record, hinting that the strength and location of some El Niño events are transforming.

In some materials, physical properties don't emerge from their individual particles, but from the collective behavior of their quantum spins. Now, researchers led by Pengcheng Dai at Rice University in the U.S. have ...

What are we to make of Digger, a climate satire by a normally well-respected film-maker thats been largely panned by critics? Stay with it and youll find out, says Bethan Ackerley