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World's fastest camera captures footage at 156 trillion frames per second

By Edd Gent published 4 hours ago

This camera can generate clips of breathtakingly quick processes — and could help scientists create ultrafast magnetic memory and pioneering ultrasonic medical treatments.

ENGINEERING

What happened when the moon 'turned itself inside out' billions of years ago?

By Robert Lea published 6 hours ago

"For the first time, we have physical evidence showing us what was happening in the moon's interior during this critical stage of its evolution, and that's really exciting."

THE MOON

Cancer patients can now be 'matched' to best treatment with DNA and lab-dish experiments

By Diana Azzam published 23 hours ago

Identifying the most effective cancer treatment for a given patient from the get-go can help improve outcomes.

CANCER

Gravitational waves reveal 1st-of-its-kind merger between neutron star and mystery object

By Sharmila Kuthunur published yesterday

Ripples in space-time point to the merger of a neutron star with another mystery object. The object, which falls right within the mass-gap range, sheds light on a long-sought, murky realm.

COSMOLOGY

Drowned land off Australia was an Aboriginal hotspot in last ice age, 4,000 stone artifacts reveal

By Emma Bryce published yesterday

The landscape features in the dreamtime stories of Australia's Indigenous people.

ARCHAEOLOGY

'Most of Gorongosa's large animals had died': How an African paradise for nature recovered from the ravages of war

By Alexander McNamara published yesterday

"Where once there had been more than two thousand elephants, now there were fewer than two hundred."

ELEPHANTS

3 pervasive myths about supplements, as explained by an expert

By Katie Suleta published yesterday

They act kind of like drugs, but they aren't regulated like them.

SUPPLEMENTS & VITAMINS

Space photo of the week: NASA spots enormous pink 'flames' during total solar eclipse. What are they?

By Brandon Specktor published yesterday

Fiery pink towers could be seen erupting from the sun during the total solar eclipse on April 8. What are they?

THE SUN

Can you hear yourself snore?

By Jennifer Nalewicki published yesterday

Are snorers immune to the sounds of their own snores?

SLEEP

Are we in a 6th mass extinction?

By Patrick Pester published 2 days ago

If we continue on our current trajectory, the sixth mass extinction is inevitable and the times we're living through now will be part of that geological period.

ANIMALS

There's 5 times as many bull sharks off Alabama now — but don't worry about shark bites

By Melissa Hobson published 2 days ago

Juvenile bull shark numbers have significantly increased in Mobile Bay, Alabama, as waters warm — but swimmers don't need to worry, researchers say.

SHARKS

Is the Javan tiger back from extinction? New study ignites controversy.

By Patrick Pester published 2 days ago

Geneticists have critiqued a study suggesting extinct Javan tigers are still alive, but the search is just beginning.

TIGERS

'Jailbreaking' AI services like ChatGPT and Claude 3 Opus is much easier than you think

By Drew Turney published 2 days ago

AI researchers found they could dupe an AI chatbot into giving a potentially dangerous response to a question by feeding it a huge amount of data it learned from queries made mid-conversation.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Annular solar eclipse 2024: Everything you need to know about the next solar eclipse

By Jamie Carter published 2 days ago

After the Great North American Eclipse comes a long "ring of fire" annular solar eclipse that can be seen in some iconic destinations.

THE SUN

Why did Europe's hunter-gatherers disappear?

By Patrick Pester published 2 days ago

There are many mysteries surrounding Europe's hunter-gatherers, but farming played a role in their demise.

ARCHAEOLOGY

Exercise may reverse sign of aging by 'flushing' fat from muscle

By Jennifer Zieba published 3 days ago

Researchers say they've identified a kind of fat that plays a major role in aging and can be controlled with short-term exercise.

EXERCISE

There's a baby star 'sneezing' in the constellation Taurus — and it could solve a longstanding cosmic mystery

By Sharmila Kuthunur published 3 days ago

In a rare observation, scientists found a baby star "sneezing" gas, dust and magnetic energy out of its disk. This behavior could help solve a longstanding mystery about how stars form without tearing themselves apart.

COSMOLOGY

Ancient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years to last ice age, DNA reveals

By Kristina Killgrove published 3 days ago

A new DNA study of living and historical members of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the U.S. and Canada suggests that they share a lineage with people from the last ice age.

ARCHAEOLOGY

'Exceptional' prosthesis of gold, silver and wool helped 18th-century man live with cleft palate

By Soumya Sagar published 3 days ago

Archaeologists in Poland have found the 300-year-old remains of a man who had a prosthetic that helped him live with a condition called cleft palate.

ARCHAEOLOGY

Mass die-off half a billion years ago caused by shifting tectonic plates, ancient rocks reveal

By Stephanie Pappas published 3 days ago

A large extinction in the midst of the expansion of life during the Cambrian period was caused by the tectonics of a supercontinent, new research argues.

ARCHAEOLOGY

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