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Runoff from Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet could severely disrupt currents in the Atlantic Ocean that regulate the global climate, researchers say. But the fresh water…
One of the central assumptions of modern neuroscience research is that the brain’s shape and structure affect behavior. Scientists have linked a thicker cortex (the brain’s…
Researchers have unveiled a new “super-efficient” artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate images by using a network of physical oscillators rather than traditional calculation-based computing…
Science word of the day: CryptologyPronunciation: Krip-TAH’-leh-jeeWhat it means: Cryptology is the study of secret codes — both making them (cryptography) and breaking them (cryptanalysis). Once…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Lake Skadar, Montenegro and Albania [42.201087364, 19.303135741]What’s in the photo? A giant, milky-green swirl on the lake’s surfaceWho took the photo? An…
A common culprit behind severe gum disease may also stiffen and narrow the heart’s aortic valve, preliminary research suggests. This may help explain links between gum…
After using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer back toward the beginning of time, astronomers have proposed a radical new explanation for one of…
It’s long been debated what started the 1789 smallpox outbreak that devastated the Indigenous population in Australia. Now, a new modeling study has the likely answer:…
The skeleton of a wolf or bat you admire at the natural history museum may look pristine, but it wasn’t always that way — there’s a…
QUICK FACTSName: Mummy mask with wigWhat it is: A carved wooden maskWhere it is from: PeruWhen it was made: Circa 1000 to 1450This wooden mask, which…
