Medieval gold ring with dazzling blue gemstone discovered in Norway is a ‘fantastically beautiful and rare specimen’
The delicate gold ring was made sometime in the Middle Ages and may have belonged to a high-status woman.
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Permafrost thaw and ‘shrubification’ have tipped Alaska’s North Slope into a wildfire regime not seen for 3,000 years
An analysis of peatland soil samples and satellite images has found that wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope are more frequent and severe now than they
China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it’s turned this ‘biological void’ into a carbon sink
Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world’s largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more
Wildfires in northern Alaska are the worst they’ve been in 3,000 years
An analysis of peatland soil samples and satellite images has found that wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope are more frequent and severe now than they
World’s oldest known sewn clothing may be stitched pieces of ice age hide unearthed in Oregon cave
The sewn hide, cordage and needles show how Indigenous Americans used complex technology to survive the freezing temperatures at the end of the last ice
Are you a night owl or an early bird?
Research suggests night owls may face different health risks than early birds do. Which category do you fit into, if either?
Food chains in Caribbean coral reefs are getting shorter
Shorter food chains could mean reefs are less able to weather changes in food availability, threatening an already vulnerable ecosystem.
A precise proton measurement helps put a core theory of physics to the test
After years of confusion, a new study confirms the proton is tinier than once thought. That enables a test of the standard model of particle
Radio signal discovered at the center of our galaxy could put Einstein’s relativity to the test
Scientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, near a supermassive black
Cancer vaccine shows promise against HPV-related throat tumors in early study
If proven effective in humans, the vaccine could complement standard therapies for HPV-driven cancer, as well as inform the design of therapeutic vaccines for other
New study favors ‘fuzzy’ dark matter as the backbone of the universe — contrary to decades of research
New research using a space-time phenomenon predicted by Einstein presents evidence that the invisible backbone of the universe may be much “fuzzier” than we realized.
Crew-12 Members and Insignia
From left, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 crew members – Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut
Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water
If you were asked to picture how electrons move, you could be forgiven for imagining a stream of particles sluicing down a wire like water
Fossilized vomit reveals 290-million-year-old predator’s diet
The regurgitated material from before the time of dinosaurs provides a rare window into the feeding habits of a prehistoric hunter.