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A 12-month longitudinal study found that infants who are put to bed with a bottle at 2 months of age tended to display more sleep problems at 6 months of age. They needed a longer time to fall asleep, spent more time awake, and woke up...

Nautilus

The same substance that makes for stress-free stir-fries also played a crucial role in the Manhattan Project.  Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The inventor of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE),...

Universe Today

In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been impossible. In fact, there are no known sources anywhere in the universe capable of producing such energy—100,000...

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Why can't you tickle yourself? Learn more about the process in the brain that prevents it from happening. 

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

How does static electricity work? Learn more about these electrical chargers and how they may have been a key to life. 

Scientific American

This famous ape may have understood pretend actions—suggesting he had the capacity to imagine

Scientific American

The South Carolina measles outbreak has triggered rare but serious brain swelling in some children

Scientific American

Jeffrey Epstein aggressively sought access to publishers, mentions of Scientific American and other media in Department of Justice files show

NASA Breaking News

3 Min Read Career Spotlight: Welder (Ages 14-18) What does a welder do? A welder uses tools that join two or more parts through forces such as heat or pressure. Metals are the materials most commonly used in welding, but...

SciTech Daily

Atmospheric methane rose faster than ever in the early 2020s, driven less by fossil fuels and more by changes in nature itself. Methane levels in Earth’s atmosphere climbed at an unprecedented pace in the early 2020s due to a mix of weaker...

The Guardian

Brain activity suggests newborns can detect and predict patterns relating to rhythm, study says Newborn babies can anticipate rhythm in pieces of music, researchers have discovered, offering insights into a fundamental human trait. Babies...

The Guardian

An ape was able to identify the location of imaginary objects in pretend scenarios, researchers find Whether it’s playing at being doctors or hosting a toy’s tea party, children are adept at engaging in make-believe – now researchers say...

Science News

Apes, like humans, are capable of pretend play, challenging long-held views about how animals think, a new study suggests.

Science News

Brain scans and signals show babies can sort images and sense rhythm, offering new insight into how infant brains are wired from the start.

Nautilus

In 2023, a neutrino telescope submerged deep in the Mediterranean Sea struck quantum gold, detecting a neutrino with 100,000 times more energy than even the Large Hadron Collider, Earth’s most powerful particle accelerator, can produce....

Ars Technica

Little kids hosting make-believe tea parties is a fixture of childhood play time and long presumed to be exclusively a human ability. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University presented evidence in a new paper published in the journal...

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Discover how an ape playing tea party teaches us humans are not the only beings with complex mental lives.

PsyPost

Recent findings published in the journal Emotion suggest that the discomfort associated with making eye contact is not exclusive to individuals with a clinical autism diagnosis but scales with autistic traits found in the general...

NPR Science

Italy's Winter Olympics promised sustainability. But in Cortina, environmentalists warn the Games could scar these mountains for decades. (Image credit: Valerio Muscella for NPR)

Wired Science

A recent report found that carbon emissions caused by the Milano Cortina Olympics could lead to the loss of 5.5 square kilometers of snowpack and millions of metric tons of glacial ice.

NASA Breaking News

Pictured from left: Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot. Credit: NASA NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission is preparing to launch for a...

Popular Science

Termites have plagued southern states like Florida for decades, but a new study indicates that the problem is even worse than researchers previously believed. After reviewing over 30 years of monitoring data, entomologists at the...

SciTech Daily

An AI just helped guide a NASA rover across Mars, marking a major leap in autonomous space exploration. The team behind NASA’s six-wheeled robotic explorer tested a vision-enabled artificial intelligence system to plan a safe driving route...

SciTech Daily

A high-precision experiment is hunting for a forbidden particle flip that could expose new physics hiding in plain sight. A major international research effort led by scientists at Sun Yat-sen University and the Institute of Modern Physics...

Scientific American

Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now they’re on the cusp of finding it

Scientific American

When a young Katharine Burr Blodgett joined future Nobel Prize winner Irving Langmuir at the General Electric Company’s industrial research laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y, it was the start of her brilliant career

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Two-year-olds raised in vegan or vegetarian households don't necessarily have restricted growth, according to a study of 1.2 million children

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An experiment with superconducting qubits opens the door to determining whether quantum devices could be less energetically costly if they are powered by quantum batteries

Scientific American

Data centers are eating up computing resources and pushing chipmakers toward AI-grade memory, tightening supply for Nintendo and other hardware makers

Scientific American

Researchers have found what might be a little red dot transitioning into its final state, where x-rays burst through its gas cocoon. Others argue the object is nothing special

Scientific American

More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable, a massive study finds

Scientific American

A new study shows that blood collected on a sanitary pad can be used for cervical cancer screening, opening the door to new diagnostics

PsyPost

Starting the day with a sugary pastry might feel like a treat, but new research suggests it could sabotage your workday before it begins. A study published in the journal Food and Humanity indicates that a high-fat, high-sugar morning meal...

SciTech Daily

The sharpest black hole collision ever detected just gave Einstein another win—and raised hopes that the next one might rewrite gravity. For scientists who follow gravitational waves as they arrive from deep space, GW250114 stands out as...

NASA Breaking News

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 7722, a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away, features concentric rings of dust and gas that appear to swirl around its bright nucleus. ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. J....

The Guardian

‘Giveaway’ competitions on WhatsApp and Telegram for retatrutide and other drugs described as ‘extremely dangerous’ Hidden-market promoters of weight-loss drugs are running social media “giveaway” competitions that offer powerful,...

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Learn more about termite evolution and how shedding key genes from their cockroach ancestors helped them build more complex colonies. 

Popular Science

Humanity’s relationship with fire is unique across all of evolutionary history. Learning to harness the power of flame is arguably our most monumental technological breakthrough as a species—one that allowed Homo sapiens to flourish across...

Smithsonian Magazine

Rove beetles cloak themselves in ant pheromones to sneak into the insects’ nests for protection. But in an odd catch-22, that makes them forever reliant on their hosts

Ars Technica

Back in 2022, astronomers were puzzled by a so-called “tidal disruption event” (TDE), dubbed AT2018hyz, that had faded when it was first noticed three years earlier, only to unexpectedly reanimate and burp out extremely bright radio waves....

SciTech Daily

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor. Every living organism on Earth can be traced back to a single shared ancestor that existed...

The Guardian

As fewer people choose to pair up, let alone marry, it could be that our species’ mating patterns are moving closer to the natural order Monogamy, you may have heard, is in crisis. Fewer people are in relationships, let alone opting to be...

MIT Technology Review

For decades, enterprises reacted to shifting business pressures with stopgap technology solutions. To rein in rising infrastructure costs, they adopted cloud services that could scale on demand. When customers shifted their lives onto...

Nautilus

Invasive species present an interesting paradox for geneticists. Because their founding populations tend to be small, they have less genetic diversity, which means they have a limited evolutionary toolkit to adapt to their new home. And...

Universe Today

Telescopes are getting smaller. It’s strange to think: smartscopes have been with us for over half a decade now. Since 2020, we’ve tested units from Vaonis, Unistellar and more. In a short time, these smartscopes have revolutionized...

PsyPost

Recent findings in neuroscience provide new evidence that musical creativity is not a static trait but a dynamic process involving the rapid reconfiguration of brain networks. By monitoring the brain activity of skilled jazz pianists, an...

Chemistry World

For Frank Leibfarth, focussing on reactivity and selectivity helps him bridge the gap between fundamental and applied research

Chemistry World

Sensor could soon help doctors to prevent overdoses of drugs

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Many ordinary people have skills that the rest of us might call superpowers. ​Learn ​how you may be able to ​teach yourself these abilities, too. 

SciTech Daily

A new four-marker blood test accurately detects pancreatic cancer, including early stages, raising hopes for earlier diagnosis and improved survival pending further studies. Scientists backed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have...