Colorful wildflowers bloom across Chile’s Atacama Desert in wake of ‘super’ El Niño
This year’s exceptionally strong El Niño has brought a rare gift to Chile’s Atacama Desert : rain. In one of the driest places on Earth
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NASA’s DAVINCI Probe Can Stand the Heat
An engineering model of NASA’s DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) descent probe passed a key test that ran from
Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How To Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence
In the 1960s and ’70s, colorful comic book advertisements from the Transcience Corporation in New York City promised to mail anyone who sent cash, check
Young Yosemite toads survive winter, then emerge with a deadly fungus
A waterborne pathogen flourishes while toads shelter underground. The finding may help conservationists rethink how to protect the threatened species.
Are hypernovas real?
Uneven supernova explosions may explain the unusual mix of elements in Milky Way stars once thought to be evidence of hypernovas.
Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought, new study suggests
The first animals may have appeared on Earth hundreds of millions years earlier than their fossils suggest, a new modeling study suggests. Previously, the earliest
How prepared are you for a disaster?
This year’s “super” El Nino means the U.S. will likely face a higher risk of stormy weather and flooding , so experts are recommending Americans
Remarkably preserved feathered dinosaur discovered in China reveals new secrets of flying-predator evolution
An artist’s reconstruction of what the newly described bird-like dinosaur (Norellraptor barsboldi) would have looked like. (Image credit: Mr. Zhao Chuang) A predatory bird-like dinosaur
The ancestors of today’s Indigenous people arrived in the Americas during the coldest part of the last ice age, study suggests
Archaeologists have been arguing for more than a century about whether people first entered the American continents before, during or after the coldest peak of
‘A kind of Rosetta Stone’: AI decodes 217-year-old secret letter ordered by Napoleon
An engineer has utilized AI to break a previously unsolved cipher used by Napoleon Bonaparte to send secret messages to his generals — enabling us
‘It’s a portrait of their actual ancestor’: Facial reconstruction of Indigenous man who lived in Ecuador 3,000 years ago shared with his descendants
An international team has reconstructed the face of a man who lived in what’s now Ecuador more than 3,000 years ago and whose skull featured
Adversity shaped our evolution as a species. People raised in it may have underrecognized strengths because of it.
Meriah DeJoseph grew up below the poverty line, so she was intrigued in college when she started reading what researchers had to say about people
‘This is what happened with Claude and me’: AI’s failed attempt to crack the Riemann hypothesis led mathematician to a breakthrough
An artificial intelligence (AI) model’s failed attempt to crack one of math’s most notorious unsolved problems has helped a human mathematician make progress on a
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Launches
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts