When was the last time Antarctica was ice-free?
Antarctica is covered by a miles-thick ice sheet, but was that always the case? And when was the coldest continent ice-free?
Category: Science
Hawke Endurance ED 8×25 binocular review
Lightweight, portable and sharp, the Hawke Endurance ED 8×25 proves compact binoculars can deliver big views without weighing you down.
Diagnostic dilemma: A doctor discovered the gene mutation behind his family’s mysterious missing-teeth condition
A doctor who had a genetic condition that prevents teeth from forming searched for the DNA mutation that had affected his family for over 150
A Titan collision may link Saturn’s tilt, its moon Hyperion and its rings
A new study proposes that a crash between Titan and another moon spawned Hyperion and, much later, destabilized Saturn’s inner moons into rings.
Colossal Biosciences breeds controversy while trying to revive mammoths
A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as the ethical questions
‘Truly extraordinary’: Mega-laser shooting at us from halfway across the universe is the brightest ‘cosmic beacon’ we’ve ever seen
Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant “megamaser” to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward Earth from 8 billion light-years away and
‘Seeing how important agriculture was for daily livelihoods, and how uncertain and precarious agriculture had become in these times, it just made me feel very passionate about working on this issue’
How award-winning scientist Meha Jain is using satellite data to help India’s farmers adapt to climate change.
Meet the world’s smallest AI supercomputer — it packs ‘doctorate-level intelligence’, its makers say, and can fit into your pocket
The portable computing powerhouse is capable of running 120-billion-parameter LLMs, roughly three times larger than GPT-3, without needing to access the internet or the cloud.
Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place?
“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John
Blowing Stellar Bubbles
For the first time, a much younger version of the Sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy, by astronomers using NASA’s Chandra
Hundreds of studies have missed how much the oceans are rising
A widely used method to calculate sea level rise may have missed up to a century of change, so the risks could hit home for
A chemical ‘Goldilocks zone’ may limit which planets can host life
Life needs nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. But without the right balance of oxygen, these elements get locked away in planets’ cores.
Chewed-up orca fins on Russian beach point to cannibalism, and scientists say it may explain why some pods are so tight-knit
Detached orca fins scored with distinctive tooth marks suggest that killer whale cannibalism is happening — and it might explain some complex orca societies.
NASA fixes Artemis II rocket for April launch to take astronauts around moon
NASA’s Artemis II is on track to shoot for the moon in April after engineers fixed the helium issue that grounded the mission’s rocket last