Science

We might have just seen the first hints of dark matter

Mysterious radiation from the outer part of the Milky Way could be a sign of dark matterTriff/Shutterstock An unexplained glow…

8 months ago

Hoverflies: The long-overlooked insects that could save our crops

  It takes Mandela Fernández-Grandon 15 minutes to train a hoverfly, a harmless wasp look-alike. The entomologist at the University of…

8 months ago

Scientists find a hidden weak spot that may trigger Alzheimer’s

They're tiny particles -- with potentially huge human consequences. Researchers at Aarhus University have uncovered a flaw in how cells…

8 months ago

Why did ancient people build massive, mysterious mounds in Louisiana?

About 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer communities began shaping enormous earthen mounds along the Mississippi River at Poverty Point, a UNESCO…

8 months ago

Global surge in ultra-processed foods sparks urgent health warning

Experts from around the world are raising alarms about the rapid global rise of ultra-processed foods, warning that UPFs are…

8 months ago

A mysterious metal find in Sweden is rewriting Iron Age history

A complete plano-convex ingot has been uncovered in Sweden for the first time. When researchers at the University of Gothenburg…

8 months ago

Scientists may have found the planet that made the Moon

Reconstructing Theia's makeup: A new study in Science identifies the most likely chemical composition of Theia, the ancient planetary body…

8 months ago

Nearby super-Earth emerges as a top target in the search for life

University of California, Irvine astronomers have identified an exoplanet located within a star's habitable zone, a region where temperatures could…

8 months ago

New nasal nanodrops wipe out brain tumors in mice

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, working with scientists at Northwestern University, have created a noninvasive…

8 months ago

Fossils reveal a massive shark that ruled Australia in dinosaur times

Around 115 million years ago, the waters north of Australia supported a massive shark that can be viewed as an…

8 months ago