Category: 7. Science

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Astronomers have been given a new and incredibly detailed look at a very familiar astronomical object thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The new JWST image shows the Helix Nebula, the ring-like structure of which has led to the…

Shorebirds are widespread birds whose dependence on coastal and wetland environments makes them effective paleoenvironmental indicators. Wading shorebirds are rare in the fossil record, but Pleistocene deposits from the Naracoorte Caves World…

ITHACA, N.Y. — Every time we speak, we’re improvising.

“Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting words together into never-before-spoken or -written sentences,” said Morten H. Christiansen ,…

Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to changing light levels in an office. According to their new…

Earlier this week, the Sun unleashed a powerful X-class solar flare, a major burst of electromagnetically charged particles that lit up the Earth’s night sky as they entered our planet’s atmosphere.

The effect was stunning: a dazzling…

New sungrazing comet inbound

There’s a new comet headed into the inner solar system, and it will make an extremely close pass…