Ant societies behave like tightly integrated “superorganisms,” where thousands of individuals work together in a way that resembles the coordinated activity of cells in a body. Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)…
SpaceX on Tuesday carried out its 60th orbital launch of 2025 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex, carrying 27 Starlink internet satellites to low Earth orbit.
The new spacecraft…
Two researchers from an astrophysics institute in Pune have discovered one of the most distant spiral galaxies ever observed – a massive, well-formed system that existed when the universe was just 1.5 billion years old.
The finding adds to growing…
In a study published in Nature Communications , researchers from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and the University of Surrey tested two ultra-thin, sheet-like materials with a honeycomb structure – graphene and
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Four 1.75-metres high robots trundle around a chemistry laboratory at Liverpool university, conveying materials between…
Machine learning has enabled researchers to extract meaningful patterns from datasets of unprecedented scale and complexity, revolutionizing fields from protein-folding prediction to astronomical object classification. Just as…
Malaspina Glacier in southeastern Alaska is the planet’s largest piedmont glacier, with ice that spills from the Saint Elias Mountains’ higher elevations and spreads out like pancake batter onto the coastal plain. Though it might appear…
For anyone in Cape Town looking to cap 2025 with one more magical night under the stars (who can forget the Blood Moon earlier this year!?), there’s a final Supermoon on the way and it’s a good one.
Grab your binoculars, find a clear horizon spot…
A recent cover article in Aging-US, titled “Sex-specific longitudinal reversal of aging in old frail mice,” highlights a promising new direction in longevity research.
The work, led by first author Cameron Kato along with corresponding author and…