Although no direct evidence of life has been discovered on Mars, a recent NASA study suggests that microbes might survive beneath frozen water on the planet’s surface. Using computer modeling, the researchers demonstrated…
A new theoretical model offers a way to estimate the likelihood of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical universes beyond. This approach has similarities to the well-known Drake Equation, devised…
Jennifer Chu | MIT News There’s no doubt that exercise does a body good. Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. Now, MIT engineers have found…
A team of biologists from The University of Texas at Arlington has identified a new species of tiny lizard in the Paria Peninsula of northeastern Venezuela. The discovery, set to be published in…
Fathiya Khamis, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology There’s been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming polystyrene. They join the ranks…
In a show of international collaboration to protect cultural heritage, Italy has returned 56 cultural relics to China after they were illegally transported to Europe and later confiscated. Nineteen of these artifacts were…
Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston Anyone following the rhetoric around artificial intelligence in recent years has heard one version or another of the claim that AI is inevitable. Common themes are that AI is…
In a pristine environment at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully installed a key component onto the Roman Space Telescope. The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block out starlight,…
Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Lancaster University How did everything begin? It’s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: the…
Excavations began this year at the castle ruins in the Kevenli neighborhood, situated on the slopes of Mount Erek, which is regarded as one of the significant Urartian settlements. The focus of the…