Our eyes are continuously bombarded by an enormous amount of visual information – millions of shapes, colors, and ever-changing motion all around us. For the…
Read moreThe ongoing volcanic eruption in Tonga began in December 2021 , but it wasn't until 5:15 pm local time on January 15, 2022, that the powerful explosion o…
Read moreThe road to life in the Arabian desert might once have been paved with the dead. In what is now Saudi Arabia, archaeologists have revealed an impressive netw…
Read moreScientists have built the tiniest antenna ever made – just five nanometers in length. Unlike its much larger counterparts we're all familiar with, this m…
Read moreA rare script from a language in Liberia has provided some new insights into how written languages evolve. "The Vai script of Liberia was created from sc…
Read moreThe Solar System floats in the middle of a peculiarly empty region of space. This region of low-density, high-temperature plasma, about 1,000 light-years acr…
Read moreChina's mysterious "Moon cube" is a mystery no longer. The big reveal: It's a rock that's not even shaped like a cube. The nation's …
Read moreAn astonishing fossil of an extinct 'sea dragon' discovered by a wetland conservationist one day at work has been hailed as the largest and most comp…
Read moreThe arid heart of Australia may not easily support life now, but once, many aeons ago, it was lush and teeming. What is now arid desert and dry shrub- and gr…
Read moreFor female patients, operation outcomes tend to be significantly better when their surgeon is also female, recent research out of Canada has found. No one r…
Read moreWe can all breathe a bit easier now. In spite of a launch bedeviled by problem after problem , NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is finally in space , mak…
Read moreWithout mind, there might as well be nothing. Colin McGinn at the University of Miami, believes that no matter how much scientists study the brain, the …
Read moreScientists have been able to observe brain activity linked with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in more detail than ever before – and if these neural sig…
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