A team of researchers has produced vortices within a supersolid, confirming superfluid behavior within this state of matter. As well as all the states of
In our attempts to identify how human culture differs from that of other animals we have been focusing on the wrong things, a new paper
Mars is a planet divided in two. The southern hemisphere is made of highlands, marked with many large craters, volcanoes, and canyons. The northern hemisphere
The private jets of the rich and famous are becoming a growing burden on the environment. New research has shown that the annual carbon emissions
The surprising identities of some of the doomed inhabitants of ancient Pompeii have been revealed by a new analysis of their DNA, re-writing the life
All cuts hurt, but one type of cut seems to stand out the most as being disproportionately painful to the injury you have received. We
The devil works fast, but citizen scientists are definitely faster when it comes to turning data from the Juno mission into beautiful images. The NASA
Tis the season to get vaccinated! We in the Northern Hemisphere are rapidly approaching the shortest day of the year, and that means it’s time
For the first time since 1970, members of the endangered Southern Resident population of orcas have been spotted in Penn Cove, a region off the
When giant ice sheets that once covered the tropics melted, they produced what paleoclimatologists call a “plumeworld ocean”, for which we now have direct evidence.
Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? The US military’s top secret X-37B space plane has just pulled off a bunch of
When we are vulnerable, words matter, and there are few circumstances where we are more vulnerable than when it comes to our health. The last
At this cave in North Africa some 15,000 years ago, a human was buried alongside an “unusual and special” medicinal plant: Ephedra, a humble shrub
A woman depicted in the section of the Sistine Chapel relating to Noah’s flood has one healthy breast and one showing signs of disease. A
There’s no denying that some species are impressive thanks to certain body parts (behave). From the long neck of a giraffe to the impressive (albeit
Every now and then, one of the robots on Mars sends back a picture of an unusual rock it has found on its journeys. After
We’ve heard it all before: getting more sleep is good for us in all sorts of ways. It’s not always easy to hit the magic
