In a new call for action paper published in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, discuss the importance of scent in hum… [+3117 chars]
The northern lights have a certain magical quality, so it's no surprise there are many myths and ... [+] legends surrounding them. getty Thanks to scientific research, we now know what causes the n… [+4529 chars]
It’s often said that the wheels of government turn slowly, and perhaps nowhere is this on better display than at NASA. While it seems like every week we hear about another commercial space launch or … [+7065 chars]
image: Dr. Marcus Jeschke, head of junior research group Cognitive Hearing in Primates (Chip).view more Credit: Karin Tilch/Deutsches Primatenzentrum According to estimates by the World Health Org… [+5243 chars]
NASA has been planning for the upcoming SPHEREx mission since early 2019, and it just reached an important milestone: it’s time to start building it. NASA says all the planning work is done, and the … [+2153 chars]
Perseverance's Martian rock samples will have to wait a bit longer to see Earth. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently announced it has plans to delay the Mars Sample ret… [+3177 chars]
News avoidance is a topical phenomenon. Now amidst the distressing news from the war in Ukraine, many people may wish to skip news altogether or at least temporarily. A recent research article exami… [+2983 chars]
Physicists from Trinity College Dublin and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid have made a peculiar discovery in which energy moves from a colder to a hotter region. They describe how a quantum ef… [+4078 chars]
In the future, you may have a squid to thank for your coffee staying hot on a cold day. Drawing inspiration from cephalopod skin, engineers at the University of California, Irvine invented an adaptiv… [+4436 chars]
It's recommended that people get 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a week. But the part of this advice that people often ignore is that we should do muscle strengthening exercises… [+5959 chars]
A new analysis of one of the most famous explosions in the cosmos has revealed a curious asymmetry. Part of the inner nebula of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant is not, astronomers have found, exp… [+3620 chars]
How life originated on Earth? This is one of the most interesting questions whose answer is not yet known. However, continuous research is going on to find out the origin of life on Earth. And now as… [+2849 chars]
