Climate change has increased the likelihood of heavy downpours in Western Europe such as the July rains that led to devastating flash floods, researchers affiliated…
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Justin Gerlach thought there must be some sort of misunderstanding. Tortoises don’t hunt. These gentle, lumbering herbivores spend their days leisurely munching on greenery, not…
If you want to be a successful star by making the minimum possible effort, aim for a surface temperature about a quarter of the sun’s.…
Consider a ruler, a timeline or even weights lined up in a gym. Why are the smaller values, the earlier times and the lighter weights…
Neuroscience mysteries A three-dimensional look at 50,000 brain cells taken from a woman with epilepsy uncovered some pairs with an astonishingly large number of connections,…
Fifteen years ago, Pluto was kicked out of the planet club. On August 24, 2006, members of the International Astronomical Union voted in favor of…
The W particle may have been found — Science News, August 21, 1971 Physicists distinguish four different kinds of force by which objects in the…
Paleontologists can spend years carefully splitting rocks in search of the perfect fossil. But with a 310-million-year-old horseshoe crab brain, nature did the work, breaking…
When the fans are away, the home team loses its sway, new research suggests.During the 2019–2020 season, European soccer teams played in front of vacant…
At least 65 million years of evolution separate humans and greater sac-winged bats, but these two mammals share a key feature of learning how to…