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It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon

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Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all.A thorough...
Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all.A thorough investigation published in May 2023 found that the inner core of the Moon is, in fact, a solid ball with a density similar to that of iron. This, researchers hope, will help settle a long debate about whether the Moon's inner heart is...
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Vision can predict dementia 12 years before diagnosis, study finds

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The eyes can reveal a lot about the health of our brain. Indeed, problems with the...
The eyes can reveal a lot about the health of our brain. Indeed, problems with the eyes can be one of the earliest signs of cognitive decline. Our latest study shows that a loss of visual sensitivity can predict dementia 12 years before it is diagnosed. Our research was based on 8,623 healthy people in Norfolk, Engl...
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Blinking Boosts Your Vision, and We Never Even Noticed

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Blinking: it happens every few seconds without you even thinking – unless of course, you're engaging...
Blinking: it happens every few seconds without you even thinking – unless of course, you're engaging in a staring competition of eye-watering proportions.Tears well up as you resist the urge to blink, and when you finally do… Oh, sweet relief. Your eyeballs are bathed in fluid as your lids momentarily close. But bli...
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'Hottest Ever' March Is 10th Month in a Row to Shatter Heat Records

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Europe's climate monitor said Tuesday that March was the hottest on record and the tenth straight...
Europe's climate monitor said Tuesday that March was the hottest on record and the tenth straight month of historic heat, with sea surface temperatures also hitting a "shocking" new high. It is the latest red flag in a year already marked by climate extremes and rising greenhouse gas emissions, spurring fresh calls ...
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Korean Fusion Reactor Sets New Record for Sustaining 100M Degree Plasma

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Upgrades to Korea's 'artificial Sun' fusion reactor have produced another record-breaking result, with new components able...
Upgrades to Korea's 'artificial Sun' fusion reactor have produced another record-breaking result, with new components able to better withstand blistering temperatures and sustain a swirling ball of 100 million-degree plasma for almost 50 seconds. It's a leap of close to 20 seconds from the Korea Superconducting Toka...
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Plants Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard It Until Now

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It seems like Roald Dahl may have been onto something after all: if you hurt a...
It seems like Roald Dahl may have been onto something after all: if you hurt a plant, it screams.Well, sort of. Not in the same way you or I might scream. Rather, they emit popping or clicking noises in ultrasonic frequencies outside the range of human hearing that increase when the plant becomes stressed. This, acc...
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Younger Generations Have Larger Brains. Is That Healthier?

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The size of the human brain may be gradually increasing over time, and that could reduce...
The size of the human brain may be gradually increasing over time, and that could reduce the risk of dementia in younger generations, according to new research.The study imaged the brains of more than 3,000 Americans, between the ages of 55 and 65, and found that those born in the 1970s have a 6.6 percent greater ov...
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Hypothesis That Universe Has No Dark Matter and Is 27B Years Old

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Sound waves fossilized in the maps of galaxies across the Universe could be interpreted as signs...
Sound waves fossilized in the maps of galaxies across the Universe could be interpreted as signs of a Big Bang that took place 13 billion years earlier than current models suggest.Last year, theoretical physicist Rajendra Gupta from the University of Ottawa in Canada published a rather extraordinary proposal that th...
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Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away in NASA Test

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Eventually, we're going to want to expand the World Wide Web across the galaxy, and NASA...
Eventually, we're going to want to expand the World Wide Web across the galaxy, and NASA recently demonstrated a key piece of tech that could help, beaming messages via laser across a distance of almost 16 million kilometers (10 million miles).That's about 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth, and the accomp...
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Scientists Discovered a 'Fear Switch' in the Brain, and How to Turn It Off

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The hair rising on the back of your neck, the gelid pool in the pit of...
The hair rising on the back of your neck, the gelid pool in the pit of your stomach, the flutter in your heart when a shadow shifts.Fear can be devastating, sickening, and, strangely, a lot of fun. But it's also an extremely useful emotion – an instinctive response to danger that can ultimately increase our odds of ...
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Giant DNA Study Reveals Where India's People Originally Came From

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The most populous country in the world, India, has long been left out of genetic studies,...
The most populous country in the world, India, has long been left out of genetic studies, leaving a massive gap in our understanding of human origins and appreciation of the genetic diversity of our species.A new study diving 50,000 years into the past by analyzing thousands of genomes has sought to change that, rev...
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Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques from Clogged Arteries

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Plastics are now everywhere, with tiny fragments found in several major organs of the human body,...
Plastics are now everywhere, with tiny fragments found in several major organs of the human body, including the placenta.Given how easily the microscopic particles infiltrate our tissues, it's vital that we learn exactly what kinds of risks they could pose to our health.Researchers have been busy studying the effect...
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New 'Water Batteries' Are Cheaper, Recyclable, and Won't Explode

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Water and electronics don't usually mix, but as it turns out, batteries could benefit from some...
Water and electronics don't usually mix, but as it turns out, batteries could benefit from some H2O.By replacing the hazardous chemical electrolytes used in commercial batteries with water, scientists have developed a recyclable 'water battery' – and solved key issues with the emerging technology, which could be a s...
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Alzheimer's Might Not Be a Brain Disease, Expert Reveals

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The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest...
The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years witnessing several important controversies.In July 2022, Science magazine reported that a key 2006 research paper, published in the prestigious journal Nature, which identified a subtype of b...
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Scientists Confirm the World Now Has over 1B Obese People

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More than one billion people around the world are now suffering from obesity with the number...
More than one billion people around the world are now suffering from obesity with the number having more than quadrupled since 1990, according to a study released by the Lancet medical journal.The " epidemic" is particularly hitting poorer countries and the rate is growing among children and adolescents faster than ...
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Clouds Vanish During a Solar Eclipse, and We Know Why

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When the Moon passes in front of the Sun in a solar eclipse, the jaw-dropping spectacle...
When the Moon passes in front of the Sun in a solar eclipse, the jaw-dropping spectacle seems to change our world momentarily.However, the effects on our planet are far more profound than a few moments of darkness during the daylight hours. And one effect that might surprise you? Clouds dissipate, and quickly – from...
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Dramatic Image Reveals How Much the Sun Has Changed in Two Years

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Mysterious New Form of Magnetism Confirmed

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There was a time when there was only one game of ferromagnetism in town. Want to...
There was a time when there was only one game of ferromagnetism in town. Want to know your north from south? Hold up a compass. Want to stick your electricity bill to the fridge? Bang on a tiny magnetized Garfield gulping down lasagna.Of course, science had to come and complicate matters by finding a second class of...
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NASA's New Horizons Discovered a Large Surprise in the Kuiper Belt

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There may be a lot more than we thought to the belt of icy debris that...
There may be a lot more than we thought to the belt of icy debris that circles the outer Solar System.Data from the New Horizons probe as it sails serenely through the Kuiper Belt hints at unexpected levels of particles where dust ought to be thinning out, suggesting the donut-shaped field extends significantly fart...
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Scientists Developed a Tool to Reveal Who's at Risk of Burnout, and It's Free

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Ask someone how they are in today's increasingly hectic world, you'll often get a reply with...
Ask someone how they are in today's increasingly hectic world, you'll often get a reply with some combination of tired and busy.Identifying which co-workers are at the end of their tether, though, can require more than a quick check-in. An international team of researchers have now developed a tool to identify those...
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A mysterious wave-like structure in our galaxy found to be slowly slithering

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Gazing out upon the apparently unchanging sea of stars around us, it's tempting to think of...
Gazing out upon the apparently unchanging sea of stars around us, it's tempting to think of the Milky Way galaxy as static and everything within it as fixed and immutable.While the timescales on which our galaxy moves often defies human experience, move it does indeed.Not all of these dynamic processes are easy to s...
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Long Covid Seems to Be a Brain Injury, Scientists Discover

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The Blood of Exceptionally Long-Lived People Reveals Key Differences

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Centenarians, once considered rare, have become commonplace. Indeed, they are the fastest-growing demographic group of the...
Centenarians, once considered rare, have become commonplace. Indeed, they are the fastest-growing demographic group of the world's population, with numbers roughly doubling every ten years since the 1970s.How long humans can live, and what determines a long and healthy life, have been of interest for as long as we k...
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We Know How Ancient Roman Concrete Was Able to Last Thousands of Years

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The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts....
The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts. And those still functional marvels rely on a unique construction material: pozzolanic concrete, a spectacularly durable concrete that gave Roman structures their incredible strength.Even today, one of the...
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