Category: Science

Scientists made a unique discovery in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola: dozens of fossilized bee nests inside rodent bones that were deposited

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a “public calendar” and a roof for astronomical observation.

Warming temperatures appear to be driving genetic mutations in some polar bears to help them survive the shifting climatic conditions.

Controlling immune cells’ internal clocks helped reduce inflammatory damage in conditions like heart attack and sickle cell disease, a mouse study found.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a

A brain-scan study reveals key components of the brain’s navigation system, which may help us better understand early symptoms of dementia.

Machine learning techniques that make use of tensor networks could manipulate data more efficiently and help open the black box of AI models.

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were wild cats.

This year’s Arctic Report Card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the northernmost part of the Earth is warming faster than the

The Bassac River surrounds Cù Lao Dung, a river islet district in southern Vietnam, before emptying into the South China Sea.

The novel design for the new qubit uses the chemical element tantalum in tandem with a special silicon substrate, creating what researchers say are the

The snuggly Bose QuietComfort headphones are now 51% at Amazon, and cheaper than they were during Black Friday.

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are

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