Category Science & Discovery

Psychologist Laura Steenbergen speaking at a TEDx event.Credit: TEDx Laura Steenbergen met her scientific mentor as an undergraduate. In 2009, she began a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Leiden University in the Netherlands and did her undergraduate thesis under the…

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth. The model, which upends the decades-old “hard steps” theory that intelligent…

If your wallet has a habit of disappearing at the worst times, the KeySmart SmartCard is here to help. Designed to work seamlessly with Apple Find My, this ultra-slim tracking card helps you locate lost items in seconds—whether they’re buried…

In 1992, Joseph Gerver of Rutgers University proposed a particularly clever curved shape with an area of approximately 2.2195. Mathematicians suspected that it answered Moser’s question. But they couldn’t prove it. Now a young postdoctoral researcher has. In a 119-page…

Nine years after the 2012 High Park Fire burned a stand of lodgepole pine that had been severely affected by the mountain pine beetle, lodgepole and aspen saplings were rebounding on this slope in the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests.…

The US Environmental Protection Agency, with headquarters in Washington DC, regulates pollution to protect the environment and human health.Credit: Aaron Schwartz/ZUMA Press/Alamy Before Donald Trump became US president for the second time last month, one of his Republican allies revealed…

Ripples, like ones produced by raindrops falling in a puddle, are also called capillary waves. Studied since antiquity, they have garnered considerable interest in modern science due to their ability to reveal information about the medium on which they travel.…

The murky ink from cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) could help deter sharks from hunting near where people are swimming. After a team at University College Dublin created models of the olfactory systems of several species of sharks, they found that the…

We scored likelihoods from the model using experimental tests of protein function. We found that if a base pair has high likelihood under Evo, then that base pair is likely to preserve or improve the protein’s function. But if that…

The single-pulse sequence (upper panel) and the associated integrated pulse profile (lower panel) are shown for PSRJ1945+1211 (left), PSR J2323+1214 (middle) and PSR J1900−0134 (right), respectively. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550 Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers…