Category: 7. Science

Recent studies have found the existence of vast, hitherto unknown reservoirs of primordial water thousands of kilometers below the Earth”s surface, which could offer clues to understanding the process of the planet’s…

New computer models of Uranus and Neptune suggest these distant worlds might be rock giants rather than pure ice giants.

The simulations allow everything from water-rich planets to ones where rock outweighs water by nearly four to one inside…

Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside cells that form compartments with individual functions. For example, mitochondria produce energy, lysosomes…

The brain’s timing during speech comprehension matches the stepwise layers of modern, large language models (LLMs), according to a new study.

The evidence comes from direct brain recordings collected while people listened to a single, 30-minute…

Little Foot, one of the world’s most complete hominin fossils, may be a new species of human ancestor, according to research that raises questions about our evolutionary past.

Publicly unveiled in 2017, Little Foot is the most complete…

When skywatchers think of meteor showers in December, they immediately think of the Geminids, which over the years have evolved into the most prolific and reliable of the dozen or so annual meteor displays that occur. And yet, there is also…