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New Fossils in Qatar Reveal Tiny Sea Cow Hidden for 21 Million Years The findings, published December 10 in the journal PeerJ, come from a partnership between scientists at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and Qatar Museums....
Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads — an ancient lineage of seed plants — heat their reproductive organs to attract beetle pollinators, which in turn evolved specialized infrared sensors. First, male cycads warm their pollen cones to enti...
Illegal Waste Dumping Plagues UK Communities The Environment Agency (EA) has announced it will spend millions of pounds to clear an enormous illegal rubbish dump in Oxfordshire, citing the risk of the waste catching fire. However, this decision h...
NASA's Webb, Curiosity Named in TIME's Best Inventions Hall of Fame Two iconic NASA missions, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Curiosity rover, have been honored by TIME magazine as part of its "Best Inventions Hall of Fame." This prestigio...
New research from Harvard and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has shed light on why some people never fully recover from COVID-19. The study, led by Dan H. Barouch, analyzed blood samples from over 140 participants and found key differences in t...
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The debate over artificial superintelligence (ASI) often portrays it as either a savior or destroyer of humanity. However, Microsoft researcher E. Glen Weyl offers a different perspective: Superintelligence is already all around us, manifesting in co...
'Pageant' in Brooklyn, New York Brian Tolle's Pageant, near the foot of the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, is often characterized as a reinstatement of two sculptures by Daniel Chester French that once were located in the same vicinity. This descr...
La primera reunión del Comité de Immigration Justice (Justicia Migratoria), uno de los 17 comités que el alcalde electo Zohran Mamdani ha reunido para asesorarse durante la transición a la alcaldía, está prevista para finales de esta semana. Este com...
Gemini North captured new images of Comet 3I/ATLAS after it reemerged from behind the sun on its path out of the solar system. The data were collected during a Shadow the Scientists session—a unique outreach initiative that invites students around th...
In February, President Sally Kornbluth announced the appointment of Professor Angela Koehler as faculty director of the MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS), with professors Iain Cheeseman and Katharina Ribbeck as associate director...
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Blue Origin's latest space tourism flight, the NS-37 mission, is set to launch on December 18th. This mission will send six people to the edge of space and back, including the first-ever wheelchair user to fly to space - aerospace engineer Michaela (...
Amid ongoing court hearings and a pending 2024 writ petition, Indigenous Singsa-Bhote community leaders from the Lungbasamba region in northeastern Nepal have filed another writ petition with the country's Supreme Court. The petition demands the canc...
Ghost Particles Spark Hidden Atomic Reaction Neutrinos are among the most puzzling particles known to science and are often called 'ghost particles' because they so rarely interact with matter. Trillions pass through each person every second with...
The exhibition "Toward the Light: Artists for the Ali Forney Center" at David Zwirner gallery in New York raised $950,000 for the Ali Forney Center, a nonprofit that runs a 24-hour drop-in center for queer youth and offers assistance with housing, ed...
TONO Reveals 2026 Festival Lineup Across Mexico City and Puebla TONO, the time-based art festival, has announced the lineup for its 2026 edition, returning March 6–22 with a slate of new and existing video installations, performance commissions, ...
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USPS Mail Carrier Saves 96-Year-Old Woman's Life During Frightening Snowstorm On December 1, the St. Louis area experienced a fast-moving, dangerous snowstorm. The streets quickly became covered in powder, and USPS mail carrier Deanna Chatman had...
Ancient Foot Fossil Reassigned to a Different Early Human Species Newly uncovered fossils have helped researchers determine that an unusual 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot discovered in 2009 does not belong to Lucy's species. Instead, the evide...
As we get older, it's easy to feel like we've lost our cool factor in the eyes of younger generations. But sometimes, the opportunity arises to remind them just how awesome we once were - or still are. That's exactly what happened with a wholesome Ti...
Artist Arrested at Art Basel Miami Beach After Chalk 'Performance' Involving His Daughter A performance artist from Luxembourg, Thomas Iser, was arrested last week at Art Basel Miami Beach after spray-painting the words "Sorry to disturb, art in ...
Growing up in Charleston, West Virginia, Jennifer Garner spent a lot of time in the kitchen with her mom and sisters. Some of her favorite memories involve home-cooked meals and time sitting around the family table. Jennifer and her mom, Pat Garner...
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Good Samaritan Walks 6-Year-Old Girl to School A young father named Joshua Threatt witnessed a 6-year-old girl walking alone to school in Detroit without shoes, despite the cold and snowy weather. Recognizing the danger, Threatt decided to ensure...
The Montpelier Indian statue is a 25-foot-tall fiberglass figure that has found a permanent home in the town of Montpelier, Indiana. While the statue may have appeared briefly in the opening credits of the TV show "Parks and Recreation," its real sto...
Researchers at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich have uncovered how ribosomes, the cell's protein builders, also act as early warning sensors when something goes wrong inside a cell. Ribosomes as Protein Builders and Stress Sensors Rib...
You probably know what it means to hit the hay, tie the knot or buy a lemon. Maybe you've already killed two birds with one stone today, so effortlessly that it was a piece of cake. But to a non-English speaker, using these phrases would probably mak...
Imagine floating towers teeming with lush greenery that look out over clean waterways overflowing with wildlife. As you glance down, you realize pedestrians outnumber cars — which fly on renewable energy — and people mill about in community gardens a...
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Kylie Kelce, known for her honest and humorous podcast "Not Gonna Lie," couldn't help but comment on her brother-in-law Travis Kelce's recent claim that he and his fiancée Taylor Swift have never fought. > "Notice how my husband was oddly quiet duri...
Elderly Woman's 'Not to Do' List is Truly Inspiring Shannon Nelson, known online as "Pinky Nel," is a 70-year-old "Boomer grandma with an edge." She's not afraid to tackle any topic, from ex-relationships to hormone therapy. Now that she's 70, ...
At the Thai Space Expo in Bangkok, the growing excitement within the Southeast Asian space sector is on full display. Amid the flashy space suits and model rockets, one unexpected sight catches the eye - a package of Thai basil chicken, the same kind...
Your Brain Has a Learning Shortcut AI Can't Copy The Prefrontal Cortex Houses Reusable Cognitive Blocks Princeton neuroscientists have found that the brain repeatedly draws on the same cognitive "blocks" when performing different types of ta...
In the Stone Age, Neolithic folks used willow branches and mud to build roundhouses for their families. Jump forward several thousand years and European farmers were fashioning panels of stitched willow, called hurdles, to fence their farms or screen...
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From Compost to Crops: Banana Peels Show Surprising Power as Eco-Friendly Fertilizer In kitchens around the world, banana peels are tossed away without a second thought. But according to new research, these scraps could do more than rot in a land...
Blenheim Palace Conservators Search For Writers of Century-Old Graffiti in Ceiling Conservators currently working to restore paintings in Blenheim Palace have made an intriguing discovery - the names of 11 people written in the ceiling decades ag...
Rocket Lab's Reusable Neutron Launch Vehicle California-based Rocket Lab has successfully completed final qualification testing of the "Hungry Hippo" fairing for its partially reusable Neutron launch vehicle. The Neutron is a medium-lift, two-sta...
Space Startups Aim to Test Receiver for Satellite-Enabled Lunar 'Power Grid' Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander Blue Ghost will feature a LightPort wireless power receiver for future missions. The lander is bound for the far side of the moon, meani...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the blue dwarf galaxy Markarian 178 (Mrk 178) against a backdrop of distant galaxies in all shapes and sizes. Some of these distant galaxies even shine through the diffuse edges of Mrk 178. Mrk 178...
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Can Wheat Fertilize Itself? A Study Inches Closer to That Goal Researchers have developed a type of wheat that's able to capture more nitrogen from the air and transform it into nutrients, bringing self-fertilizing crops a step closer to reality....
A Week in Wildlife: Surprises, Rescues, and Coexistence Unexpected Encounters In Altadena, California, a homeowner discovered an unexpected visitor - a large bear had made itself comfortable in the crawlspace of his home. "We call him 'unbea...
China Activates Massive Distributed AI System China has activated a massive, nationwide optical network that links data centers across the country, forming what may be the world's largest distributed AI supercomputer. The 1,243-mile-wide system ...
Unique Quirks That Reveal Where You're From Whether you live in "Tinseltown," Hollywood, or La Ville Lumière (the city of light), Paris, locals have customs and slang that demonstrate they belong. Finding a sense of community is important to a pe...
It's an improbable scenario - a teenager winning public office in the United States by besting his former high school teacher. But that's exactly what Cameran Drew, a pro-business liberal from Surry, Virginia, accomplished on November 4. The 19-year...