China launches ‘human artificial embryos’ to space for the first time
China has become the first nation to send “human artificial embryos” to space in a bid to better understand how microgravity and cosmic radiation may...
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‘I have no doubt that life is out there’: Why radio astronomers are convinced alien contact is only a matter of time
Over five decades ago, astronomer Frank Drake used one of Earth’s largest radio antennas to beam a coded message into space, hoping that it might...
Increasing screen time for children a public health concern: U.S. advisory – National
Increasingly harmful screen time among children and teenagers has become a public health concern in the U.S., a new surgeon general’s advisory warned Wednesday, with...
Physicists confirm ‘negative time’ is real in mind-bending quantum experiment
When a beam of light passes through a cloud of atoms, photons (particles of light) sometimes appear to spend a negative amount of time there,...
Kennedy Swaps Vaccine Rhetoric for Story Time but Can’t Quite Change the Subject
Here in Washington, we’ve been hearing about tensions between the White House and one of its most controversial — but, at least in some circles, most popular — figures: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Polling of likely voters indicates that the Health...
Flowering plants transformed into ‘hopeful monsters’ in 9 dire bursts across evolutionary time, study finds
When the dinosaur-killing meteor hit Earth 66 million years ago, many flowering plants transformed into “hopeful monsters” to endure the resulting environmental crisis. Now, new...
New AI astrophysics algorithms are 95% better at showing how the universe changes over time
A newly developed technique could teach AI algorithms to see the universe with unprecedented clarity — potentially exposing the cracks in our understanding of the...
New data center will be partially powered by human brain cells for the first time
An Australian startup is building what could become one of the world’s first “biological data centers” — augmenting silicon computing chips with those seeded with...
‘Kraken’ octopus that lived at the time of the dinosaurs was a 62-foot-long apex predator of the ocean
The findings push back the oldest known octopuses by around 5 million years. (Image credit: Yohei Utsuki: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University)...
Physicists entangle two moving helium atoms for the first time, validating ‘spooky’ quantum theory
For the first time, scientists have observed quantum entanglement in the way atoms physically move — bringing a phenomenon once described by Albert Einstein as...