Science and Technolgy blog
What may be scariest about a spooky black cat is the way superstition and tradition shape people’s perceptions and biases about animals based only on their color.
Rain has so far been ignored in calculations of the ocean’s capacity to take up carbon, but a new estimate shows it enhances the ocean sink by 5% to 7%.
“If you constantly use an AI to find the music, career or political candidate you like, you might eventually forget how to do this yourself.” Ethicist Muriel Leuenberger considers the personal impact of relying on AI.
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered lonely quasars in the early universe, with “empty larders” that defy theories surrounding their growth to monster sizes.
A pulsating red star and its spectacular nebula have been captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
The Himalayas’ massive heights result from a unique combination of geologic factors.
The mantle is split up into two domains — the African and the Pacific — that emerged when supercontinent Pangaea broke apart.
On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce.
Babirusas are believed to have diverged from their pig ancestors between 26 million and 12 million years ago after getting isolated on Sulawesi when sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age.
Scientists say they’ve uncovered where the vast majority of Earth’s meteorites came from.
