Under the right conditions, liquid crystals form astonishing structures reminiscent of biological systems, shown here in actual (left) and false color (right), with the filaments in light blue and the…
Electron micrograph of engineered extracellular vesicles at a magnification of 23,000×. Credit: NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses the body’s…
Monument 19 from La Venta (National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City). Credit: Marco M. Vigato in Uncharted Ruins In an article recently published in Latin American Antiquity, Dr. Jill Mollenhauer…
Built in the 6th century BC, Persepolis has withstood destruction, looting, earthquakes, fires and harsh weather. Conservationists at Persepolis, Iran’s most iconic ancient site, are waging a delicate battle against…
The Bureau of Meteorology’s spring and summer climate hazards outlook. 2024-25 Higher Risk Weather Season National Preparedness Briefing. Australia is no stranger to extreme weather. From heat waves and droughts…
Credit: 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. Major, CC BY For the past few years, a series of controversies…
Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in length. For a long time, scientists believed they…
Tropical forest in Martinique near the city of Fond St-Denis. Credit: Wikipedia Millions of years ago, the climate was much warmer and wetter than today. But exactly how much warmer…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research published in Science shows that for some people who believe in conspiracy theories, a fact-based conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can “pull…
The great whodunnit of the human family is exactly what caused Neanderthals to suddenly die off 40,000 years ago. A new study posits a very surprising answer to one of…
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