🌘
Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week.
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that roamed a superocean,…
Category: 7. Science
-
More than 43,000 years ago, Neanderthals spent centuries collecting animal skulls in a cave; but archaeologists aren’t sure why
Neanderthals purposefully collected and positioned horned and antlered animal skulls in a cave in what is now Spain, suggesting that these extinct human relatives had complex cultural practices over 43,000 years ago, a new study…
Continue Reading
-
Physicists Develop New Tool to Study Star Evolution
We’re a major partner in a new telescope instrument that will help us see massive stars in the Milky Way and view the distant Universe.
Our joint team from the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy and Centre for Advanced Instrumentation helped…
Continue Reading
-
Muscle stem cells become more resistant but less restorative over time
Tissue repair and regeneration after injury slow down with aging. In muscles, this happens because muscle stem cells no longer function properly, making muscle regrowth harder.
A new UCLA study uncovered a cause of this aging-associated…
Continue Reading
-
Measuring up to the length of a bus, these creatures have the longest tentacles in the world
When we think of tentacled animals, we usually think of marine creatures. But many other species have them too. For example, the eyestalks of slugs and snails are actually specialised types of tentacles.
And the star-nosed mole has 22 short…
Continue Reading
-
Webb reveals five-galaxy merger just 800 million years after the Big Bang – Phys.org
- Webb reveals five-galaxy merger just 800 million years after the Big Bang Phys.org
- James Webb Space Telescope finds an early‑universe galaxy collision no one expected Texas A&M Stories
- New JWST imagery dives into the center of the Milky Way
Continue Reading
-
How brick-building bacteria react to toxic chemical in Martian soil – Phys.org
- How brick-building bacteria react to toxic chemical in Martian soil Phys.org
- Spacesuit To Lab Coat, Shubhanshu Shukla’s Mars Experiment Takes Off NDTV
- Shubhanshu Shukla, IISc-IISER team, find how brick-building bacteria react to toxin in Martian…
Continue Reading
-
Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) crumbles apart in stunning new telescope images
A comet was caught falling apart on camera, using a powerful telescope in Hawaii.
Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) crumbled in high-resolution footage captured by the Gemini North telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Glowing pieces of the comet are…
Continue Reading
-
New mission could create artificial solar eclipses in space
ESA’s Proba-3 spacecraft captured this image of our star. The sun’s dazzling body is blocked by 1 of the 2 satellites making up Proba-3, leaving the other satellite free to image the our star’s wispy outer atmosphere. Now, a new mission… Continue Reading
-
9 night sky events to see in February, from a ring-of-fire eclipse to a snow moon
The full snow moon sets behind Rocca Calascio castle in Calascio, Abruzzo, Italy, on February 17, 2022.
Lorenzo Di Cola, NurPhoto/Getty Images
Alpha Centaurid meteor shower peaks—February 8
Meteor shower activity is relatively quiet early in the…
Continue Reading