Many people think that mathematics is a human invention. To this way of thinking, mathematics is like a language: it may describe real things in…
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4 billion years ago, the Earth was composed of a series of magma oceans hundreds of kilometers deep. Earth hasn’t always been a blue and…
Credit: Jayanne English/EMU/Dark Energy Survey Scanning through data fresh off the telescope, we saw two ghosts dancing deep in the cosmos. We had never seen…
Headphone designers have to balance scientific limitations with human preferences. What you like to listen to is also important for choosing the right pair. Between…
Headed for export? Intensive livestock farming is a huge global industry that serves up millions of tons of beef, pork, and poultry every year. When…
There are three reasons we see so many red American barns. It’s traditional, it’s practical and the color looks good. Although a main reason to…
With four tiny legs and an extraordinarily long body, a fossil of the snake-like lizard Tetrapodophis amplectus has created controversy. Credit: Julius Csotonyi More than…
A fly regurgitating digestive juices. Credit: Carlos Ruiz, CC BY-ND Imagine you’re at a picnic and just about to bite into your sandwich. Suddenly you…
60 Years After It First Gazed at the Skies, the Parkes Radio Telescope Is Still Making Breakthroughs
Credit: CSIRO The CSIRO’s 64-meter Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned on October 31, 1961. At the time it was the most advanced radio telescope in…
New research from the US has shown that white-tailed deer are being infected with SARS-CoV-2Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the official name…
A telescope in the outer solar system would be able to do unique science that is impossible closer to the Sun. (Representative image showing the…
Aristarchus Crater on the moon. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Alongside advances in space exploration, we’ve recently seen much time and money invested into technologies that…
The origin of the SARS-CoV-2Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the official name of the virus strain that causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Previous…
Daylight saving time ends in the U.S. and Canada on November 7, 2021, and most of us will be setting our clocks back an hour.…
Falling into a black hole is easily the worst way to die. Halloween is a time to be haunted by ghosts, goblins, and ghouls, but…
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria and play a potential role in the evolution of life. Viruses have a bad reputation. They are responsible for…
Artist’s impression of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: ESA, NASA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems / STScI…
In a tragic accident, Alec Baldwin has fatally fired a prop gun on a film set in New Mexico. Credit: Gage Skidmore In a horrendous…
In December last year, the media reported an intriguing signal we at the Breakthrough Listen project found in our radio telescope data. Dubbed BLC1, the…
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) sparked worldwide excitement in March as particle physicists reported tantalizing evidence for new physics — potentially a new force of…