When you look up at the sky on a sunny day, the sun might seem like a bright spot, unchanging in the sky. But the sun is a ...
At the center of most large galaxies sits a supermassive black hole (SMBH). When these black holes are actively consuming material, they become incredibly luminous quasars. But some quasars appear ...
Honeybees are among the widely studied insects, due to their sophisticated, hierarchical social organization and their ...
Being able to see light and detect radiation is of utmost importance at any frequency. While this challenge has been solved ...
Living bacteria embedded in coatings could clean wastewater, capture carbon and generate biofuels—but only if they survive ...
A study of one of the world's longest-running disaster warning systems—desert locust monitoring—finds surveillance limits ...
Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of meters below the surface by mineral ...
In the early 1990s, crime-loving television audiences could choose mainly between cozy, fictional detective series such as ...
A team of U.S. astronomers has observed a binary pair of white dwarfs where one star is actively devouring material from the ...
Across the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and West African coasts, massive arrivals of Sargassum seaweed have become an annual ...
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Indonesia says its giant sea wall will stop flooding. Is this climate adaptation or a costly folly?
Indonesia plans to build a "giant sea wall," more than 500 kilometers long, to defend Java's north coast from rising sea levels.
In less than a millionth of a second after a nuclear detonation or a severe nuclear reactor accident, an enormous burst of ...
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