What just happened? Physicists have managed to turn light particles into what they describe as an "exotic state of matter" – a one-dimensional gas. They did this by confining the photons in a tiny spa

Farmer Will Tipton holds a radish, one of the cover crops he's using. Some scientists worry that the climate benefits of cover crops and other regenerative agriculture practices are oversold. Julia Si

Billions of years ago, so the theory goes, something around the size of Mars smacked into Earth, spewing a whole bunch of dirt into space that eventually coalesced to form the Moon. This is called the

One of the biggest puzzles we face about the Universe is that we have no explanation for a great many of the properties that the fundamental objects within it possess. There are four fundamental forces, each with their own strength of interaction, and there’s no explanation for why those forces have…

We could be producing concrete that's 30 percent stronger by processing and adding charred coffee grounds to the mix, researchers in Australia discovered. Their clever recipe could solve multiple prob

Ni shell universe. The shell consists of galaxies and clouds of hydrogen or a hydrogen/dark matter mix. The negative derivative of ν(r) in the interior space indicates a repulsive field directed away

The vagus nerve sprawls from the brain through the body, innervating our organs and managing life support and emotion. Sally Caulwell for Quanta Magazine The original version of this story appeared in

Deep beneath our feet, at a staggering depth of over 5,100km, lies Earth's inner core — a solid ball of iron and nickel that plays a crucial role in shaping the conditions we experience on the surface

By Finn Andreen In these politically turbulent times, the “illusion of democracy is fading worldwide” as one pundit wrote recently. There is a growing sense in the West that “democracy” is not working

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: (Herschel) ESA/NASA/Caltech, (Spitzer) NASA/JPL/Caltech, (WISE) NASA/JPL/Caltech; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Webb ERO Production Team; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J

When modern humans emerged from Africa, they explored far more than just new places. They encountered other human species, and in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, they did a heck of a lot more than just

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France.Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the Neanderthal

Alastair Bonnett has an unusual pastime for an expert in mapping: he likes to get lost. A geographer at Newcastle University, UK, Bonnett sees this as a necessary corrective for a society dependent on maps for basic daily activities.

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The ATLAS detector under construction. Credit: CERN One of the most surprising predictions of physics is entanglement, a phenomenon where objects can be some distance apart but still linked together.

Credit: Wikipedia/public domain A Doppler shift is defined as a change of frequency of light or sound when an object is moving toward or away from an observer. Edwin Hubble observed in 1929 that galax

Published Sep 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM EDT By Science and Health Reporter Share ✓ Link copied to clipboard! Artificial intelligence has helped researchers to uncover hundreds of ancient land artworks in Pe

Aerial photograph of the Oued Beht ridge and river, highlighted in color. Credit: Toby Wilkinson Archaeological fieldwork in Morocco has discovered the earliest previously unknown farming society from

The Telchines were thought to be the original inhabitants of the island of Rhodes. They were also present on Ceos and Crete. Hesiod called them malignant wizards, and Ovid celebrated their legendary s

The electrical effects of a thunderstorm are not confined just to high up in the atmosphere. Close to the ground, Earth's atmosphere hums with intense electric fields that accelerate particles, flingi

Archaeology & History The Moche civilization thrived in northern Peru from the 1st to the 8th centuries C.E. Moche figure with human body and spider features carrying a goblet, painted on a pillar wit

There is a saying that goes: In life, familiarity breeds contempt. But in scholarship, familiarity breeds acceptance. This is an adage to which I wholeheartedly subscribe. Unfortunately, such acceptan

Photographs by Roger Anis On a sunny morning this past January, Ingo Strauch, an expert in ancient Indian history, crouches in the courtyard of what was once an Egyptian temple. The floor is littered

Antikythera mechanism. Credit: National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece Techniques developed to analyze the ripples in spacetime detected by one of the 21st century's most sensitive pieces of sc

Scientists have discovered a massive burial with more than 300 tombs in Egypt that they are calling the new 'City of the Dead.' The city of Aswan was an important trade, quarry and military zone when

Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have found a pre-Hispanic structure used by locals for healing rites in Tecacahuaco, a town in the state of Hidalgo, Mexic

Archaeologists have unearthed more than 30 ancient Egyptian tombs that cover an entire hill in Aswan, an ancient city on the Nile. The burials date to the Greco-Roman period and reveal clues about tho

Archaeology & History The uncoded book could be anything from Ancient Hebrew to a lost Roman dialect. Voynich Manuscript (15th Century). Image via Yale University Library. by Verity Babbs June 27, 202

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole at "cosmic dawn" that seems to be impossibly massive. The confusion comes from the fact that it doesn't

Climate models and paleoclimate proxy records indicate that the absence of preserved eastern Mediterranean organic-rich layers preceding mid-Pliocene glaciation is linked to a pan-North African humid

Neanderthals, the closest cousins of modern humans, lived in parts of Europe and Asia until their extinction some 30,000 years ago. Genetic studies are revealing ever more about the links between mode

Recent archaeological discoveries made by accident in Mexico are shedding light on the country’s pre-Hispanic era, Ancient Origins reported. Last month, workers at a site in Janitzio in Lake Pátzcuaro

Despite its name, the mammoth was not the largest Pleistocene land animal. That status goes to its relative, the straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), which, due to weighing up to 13 tonn

Photo: Department of Internal Policy of the Akimat of the Zhambyl Region Cleaning campaigns are good news for the environment. But thanks to one of such missions in Kazakhstan, fans of archeology also

Two sticks found in a cave in southeastern Australia show signs of processing that perfectly match curse-making practices described in the 19th century. The sticks have been dated at an estimated 11,0

NASA scientists have discovered something of an alphabet soup in the ionosphere, the part of Earth's atmosphere that sits about 48–965 kilometers (30–600 miles) above our heads – and the finding could

The study's authors – researchers Juan Carlos Trejos-Espeleta and Dr. James Bradley, at the study site: the forefield of Midtre Lovénbreen glacier, Svalbard. Credit: James A. Bradley Melting Arctic gl

If you have read stories from Norse mythology, then you have probably heard of the battles between the gods and the giants and will be familiar with at least one giant, the trickster Loki. But if you

In the 1800s, a conflict between the founding fathers of evolution divided the community. Charles Darwin believed sexual selection drove the variation in butterfly colors and patterns of males, while