Archaeologists in Peru have made a significant discovery: a throne room approximately 1,300 years old, adorned with murals depicting a female ruler from the Moche culture, a civilization that flourished on the northern…
A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant interstellar cloud of gas and dust. This is exciting for those of us…
A Burmese python, an invasive species in the Everglades, was recently observed consuming a white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) weighing approximately 67% of its own body mass. This significant predatory event involved the python…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken centre stage in basic science. The five winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics shared a common thread: AI. Indeed, many scientists – including the…
At the Üçhöyük excavation, located in the Bolvadin district of Afyonkarahisar province and conducted with the aim of discovering the ancient city of “Puruşhanda,” a grain silo and two distinct seals were uncovered,…
Extremely detailed images of a cannabis plant, spider eyes, and a mouse brain are among the notable winners of the 50th annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. A panel of judges selected 20…
Jennifer Chu | MIT News A quasar is the extremely bright core of a galaxy that hosts an active supermassive black hole at its center. As the black hole draws in surrounding gas and dust,…
Chinese researchers have introduced a new humanoid robot capable of reaching a top speed of nearly 13 kilometers per hour, establishing it as the fastest robot of its kind. These speeds were attained…
A team of international neuroscientists, led by researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School, has identified a crucial mechanism governing the reactivation of neural stem cells, which are vital for brain cell repair and regeneration….
In 1995, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) at the Palomar Observatory made the initial observation of what appeared to be a brown dwarf orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 229,…