Woodpecker hammering is a full-body affair
The birds grunt like tennis pros when generating their rat-a-tat, a performance strategy that may help stabilize core muscles.
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Roman road network was twice as large as previously thought, new mapping project finds
The new digital map increases the Roman road network by nearly 100%.
Scientists finally find explanation for lopsided cloud that follows Earth’s moon through space
The moon’s oddly skewed dust cloud may be caused by an extreme day-night temperature difference, a new study suggests.
‘This is easily the most powerful quantum computer on Earth’: Scientists unveil Helios, a record-breaking quantum system
Scientists have built a 98-qubit machine that they say performs better than any other quantum computer in the world. They’ve used it to gain new
Global warming is forcing Earth’s systems toward ‘doom loop’ tipping points. Can we avoid them?
Earth may be on the verge of crossing several climate change tipping points that could have irreversible and devastating consequences. Here’s everything you need to
Nocs Provisions Lite View Spotting Scope review
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Water jets may break up into droplets thanks to jiggling molecules
Streams of liquid form drops thanks to unidentified disturbances. It could be the jiggling of individual molecules.
NASA’s Artemis II Crew Trains in Orion
The Artemis II crew (from left to right) CSA (Canadian Space Agency) Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; Christina Koch, mission specialist; Victor Glover, pilot; and Reid
How Your Brain Creates ‘Aha’ Moments and Why They Stick
Here are three words: pine, crab, sauce. There’s a fourth word that combines with each of the others to create another common word. What is
It’s official: The world will speed past 1.5 C climate threshold in the next decade, UN says
The UNEP’s 2025 Emissions Gap report has found that global average temperatures will exceed 1.5 C (2.7 F) before 2035 — and this just days
‘Not so exotic anymore’: The James Webb telescope is unraveling the truth about the universe’s first black holes
A peculiar object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope just 700 million years after the Big Bang could reveal the origins of the earliest
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Why do only some leaves turn red in the fall? Scientists can’t agree on an answer
The red pigments in some fall leaves have proven to be a puzzle for researchers who debate why leaves bother to go red. (Image credit: