Science

  In our ever-expanding universe, light from distant galaxies takes longer to reach us and may someday escape our ability to see it entirely. After all, when we’re looking deep into space that’s millions of light years away, we’re seeing far into the past. What we observe today may have …

  All of humanity save for a handful of astronauts have the advantage of living inside the protective bubble of Earth’s magnetic field. As space agencies and private companies look toward a future of people living on the moon and Mars, we have to contend with an unpleasant reality: the …

In a study published in the journal Scientific Reports, an international team of researchers from Sweden and the United Kingdom assessed the ‘heritability of dog ownership’ in the Swedish Twin Registry, the largest twin cohort in the world. The results show that genetic variation ‘explains more than half of the …

When treated with proanthocyanidins, bioactive compounds derived from the fruits of the American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon), human pathogens Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabilis, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa become more sensitive to lower doses of antibiotics, according to a new study published in the journal Advanced Science. What’s more, the pathogenic bacteria don’t …

  NASA is going back to the moon, but it’s not doing it alone. The agency has just revealed its three commercial partners for phase one of the Artemis program. These US companies will help NASA deliver cargo and scientific instruments to the lunar surface in the next few years …

Schrödinger’s cat, a thought experiment envisioned by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935, is a paradox that applies the concept of superposition in quantum physics to objects encountered in everyday life. The idea is that a cat is placed in a sealed box with a radioactive source and a …

Many icy bodies in our Solar System have underground oceans. On the dwarf planet Pluto, an area called Sputnik Planitia suggests the presence of a subsurface ocean and a locally thinned ice shell. To maintain an ocean, the dwarf planet needs to retain heat inside. On the other hand, to …

Two new species of predatory megaraptoran dinosaurs have been identified from fossils found in Thailand. Phuwiangvenator yaemniyomi (left) and Vayuraptor nongbualamphuensis. Image credit: Adun Samathi / Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn. The two new species, named Phuwiangvenator yaemniyomi and Vayuraptor nongbualamphuensis, roamed the Earth approximately 125 million years ago (Cretaceous period). …

According to a new study in the Journal of the American Heart Association, drinking 32 ounces (about 950 ml) of an energy drink in a short timespan may raise blood pressure and increase the risk of heart function abnormalities. Energy drinks prolong the QT interval and raise blood pressure. Image …

An international team of scientists has described a cryptic new species of rat snake in the genus Elaphe. The Urartian rat snake (Elaphe urartica) in Armenia. Image credit: Boris Tuniyev. Elaphe is a snake genus with distribution in temperate, subtropical, and tropical zones of both eastern and western hemisphere. The …