Secrets of ‘polar dinosaur’ forest home revealed for first time in 120 million years
At least 100 million years ago, dinosaurs thrived on the piece of land that is modern-day Australia
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Bear attack leaves woman in critical condition in Slovenia
A woman is in critical condition after a bear attacked her in a forested area outside Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana.
SpaceX Starship breaks up over Indian Ocean in latest bumpy test
Ship flew farther than on two previous attempts but sprang leaks and began spinning before re-entering atmosphere out of controlAnother SpaceX Starship prototype broke up over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, capping the latest bumpy test flight for the ro…
Reversing the brain drain: Can Europe successfully woo scientists amid US research cuts?
US President Donald Trump recently announced a spate of funding cuts to universities and research institutions across the US, leaving thousands of scientists and researchers unemployed or in a state of limbo. European agencies and research institution…
Scientists date the oldest known tools made from whale bones to 20,000 years ago
Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone.
What Do People Want?
Abstract of a paper on NBER: We elicited over a million stated preference choices over 126 dimensions or “aspects” of well-being from a sample of 3,358 respondents on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Our surveys also collected self-reported well-being…
‘Like a face’: discovery reinforces idea Neanderthals created art, say experts
Pebble found in central Spain features what is thought to be world’s oldest fingerprint, and represents a noseOne day around 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man in what is now central Spain came across a large granite pebble whose pleasing contours and…
The US has world-class scientific talent. The rest of the world is hoping to lure that away
As the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of scientists in the U.S. lost their jobs or grants.
Bird Feeders Have Caused a Dramatic Evolution of California Hummingbirds
Science magazine reports that hummingbird feeders “have become a major evolutionary force,” according to research published this week in Global Change Biology. (At least for the Anna’s hummingbird, a common species in the western U.S.
Over just a few …
Researchers Build ‘The World’s Fastest Petahertz Quantum Transistor’. They Predict Lightwave Electronics
“What if ultrafast pulses of light could operate computers at speeds a million times faster than today’s best processors?” asks the University of Arizona.
“A team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Arizona, are working to mak…