Science

Astronomy

Why Venus is so parched

Artist's impression of the process by which HCO+ ions react with electrons, causing hydrogen atoms (orange) to escape. © Aurore Simonnet / Atmospheric...

Ashton Edwards - May 17, 2024

Astronomy

A super-Earth atmosphere in sight

Artist's impression of the exoplanet 55 Cancri e, which is about twice the size of Earth and orbits closely around its host star. ...

Ashton Edwards - May 17, 2024

Earth & Climate

Did a magnetic field collapse shape evolution?

The Earth's magnetic field apparently has a complex significance for life on Earth. Petrovich9/iStock ...

Ashton Edwards - May 17, 2024

Earth & Climate

Lakes viewed as patients

Toxic algae blooms are among the various “health problems” of lakes. © Angelina Tittmann, IGB ...

Ashton Edwards - May 17, 2024

Earth & Climate

Everything that can be made from tree bark

Will shoes with tree bark soles soon be the latest fashion? © Patrick Walter/ Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces Research ...

Ashton Edwards - May 17, 2024

Earth & Climate

How elephants greet each other

Elephants adapt the way they greet their counterparts. © Vesta Eleuteri Just...

Ashton Edwards - May 17, 2024

Biology

The rise in CO2 is now faster than ever

Air bubbles in a thin slice from an Antarctic ice core. © Katherine Stelling/Oregon State University ...

Elijah Burt - May 17, 2024

History & Archaeology

Gravitational waves and black holes

Astronomers have demonstrated for the first time that the universe is filled with a background "hum" of very long-wave gravitational waves... more For the first...

Alan Cannon - May 17, 2024

History & Archaeology

Laser scans are intended to detect illegally traded ivory

Elephant and mammoth tusk samples. © Ben Booth Despite an international ban,...

Alan Cannon - May 17, 2024

History & Archaeology

Lost books from Grimm’s private library

First edition of "Simplicissimus" from the library of the Brothers Grimm with their handwritten annotations. © Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań ...

Alan Cannon - May 17, 2024

History & Archaeology

Mayan ball games on sacred ground

Such stone rings served as a kind of goal in Mayan ball games. Image: Chichen Itza, © LanaCanada/iStock ...

Alan Cannon - May 17, 2024

History & Archaeology

AI gives contemporary witnesses of the Holocaust a voice

Abba Naor was born in Lithuania in 1928 and reports as a Jewish Holocaust survivor ...

Alan Cannon - May 17, 2024

Health & Medicine

How the liver proactively prepares for food

The mitochondria in the liver change shape as soon as food is perceived in the brain. The image shows an electron micrograph of...