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The French scholar Pierre-Simon Laplace crisply articulated his expectation that the universe was fully knowable in 1814, asserting that a sufficiently clever “demon” could predict the entire future given a complete knowledge of the present. His thought experiment marked the…
The world’s biggest and most powerful launch vehicle blasted off from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Thursday once again lost the upper stage of its massive Starship rocket in a fiery explosion, even as…
Two new AI tools check for errors in research papers including in the calculations, methodology and references.Credit: Jose A. Bernat Bacete/Getty Late last year, media outlets worldwide warned that black plastic cooking utensils contained worrying levels of cancer-linked flame retardants.…
Whenever we pick up a prescription medication, we see its name printed on the label—sildenafil, fluoxetine, alprazolam, or sertraline, for example. But have you ever wondered how those names are developed? Choosing what to call a medication is a careful…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For several days, excitement has grown around the two new hatchlings of Jackie and Shadow, Big Bear’s celebrity bald eagles. On Thursday, a pip—or the first sign of hatching—was seen in the third egg in the…
Das Chakraborty, S., Chang, H., Hansson, B. S. & Sachse, S. Higher-order olfactory neurons in the lateral horn support odor valence and odor identity coding in Drosophila. eLife 11, e74637 (2022). Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Frechter, S.…
We tend to think of the moon as a cold, dusty rock, but in fact, its surface can get pretty hot during a lunar day. How hot? It turns out that the answer can vary dramatically over a very short…
SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, March 6, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched…
Jelly-like materials called hydrogels can stay squishy even at extreme temperatures, thanks to a method that locks in their water1. Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription 24,99 € / 30 days cancel any…
It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 billion-year-old, 43-mile-wide Yarrabubba crater. Researchers at Curtin University and the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) say the new recordholder is located…
