While the strengthening El Niño helped boost temperatures, climate change is the main culprit for making August so hot.
Adrianos Golemis is set to become Greece’s first astronaut, subject to approval by the space station partners. The European Space Agency has signed an agreement on behalf of Greece with the US company Vast. Vast plans the mission to the International S…
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Happiness fades fast when it becomes routine. A psychologist explains seven research-backed habits worth rotating through your week, and why variety matters.
Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter row erupted over whether the company’s models benefited from unpublished work, a second mathematician has come forward accusing the AI giant of unethical and “dishonest” behavior and a lack of transparency about the origins […]
Before reentering our atmosphere, the telescopes onboard NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have been restarted to take their last observations.
New research argues that the planet’s rift valleys may indicate continuing tectonic activity, challenging the picture of a geologically inactive Venus.
Whale sharks have unique spot patterns, like fingerprints. In the Maldives, these help researchers track their movements, growth, injuries and return visits.
“We can – and must – get on the right path.”
A photon from the biggest cosmic explosion since the Big Bang, the gamma-ray burst nicknamed “the BOAT,” should not have reached Earth, according to Einstein. Now scientists may know how it did.