Researchers studying Earth’s climate have made a grim discovery about the reality of its climate. The planet has passed its first climate tipping point, with relentlessly rising heat temperatures in the oceans pushing corals around the world past their limit.
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About 60 years ago, the original Star Trek series featured a technology called a “warp drive,” which allowed space travel at speeds much faster than light.
The 2025 Ig Nobel ceremony, held at Boston University, continued the tradition of celebrating unorthodox curiosity. Winners included researchers who discovered that painting cows with zebra-like stripes reduces fly bites, scientists who studied whether drunken bats can still echolocate properly, and a team that perfected the physics of cooking the Italian dish cacio e pepe.
Can an object somewhat behave like both a planet and a star, especially when it is forming? Turns out, the answer is yes!
Recently, there has been significant research and discovery happening in Egypt — from the geographical origins of the Karnak Temple to an ongoing exploration that could reveal the elusive resting place of the country’s last pharaoh, Cleopatra VII.
There are an abundance of terms that can be used to describe Jane Goodall—scientist, activist, conservationist, humanitarian, primatologist, ethologist—but none may be more fitting than pioneer.
Our immune system serves as the body’s first line of defense, waging an invisible war against pathogens, viruses, bacteria, and other agents that threaten to invade us each day.
Science has advanced one step closer towards figuring out how certain cancer cells work. Researchers at ETH Zurich demonstrated that skin cancer cells can transfer their mitochondria, the cell compartments that provide energy, to neighboring healthy connective tissue cells (fibroblasts) for the survival and growth of tumors.
A new study from researchers at the UNC School of Medicine, published in September of this year through Neuron, examines how junk food rewires the brain’s memory hub and could lead to a higher risk of cognitive dysfunction.
Scientists have discovered the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a carbon-rich disk surrounding an exoplanet hundreds of light years away that could reveal how moons and planets are formed in our universe.