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Cypress Trees Fire Pearl River Delta Colleagues Years Stumps
- An ancient Chinese army set fire to an enemy capital, but things got out of hand. The buried roots and stumps of an ancient forest in southern China are the charred remains of an ancient war and the burning of a capital city, according to a recent ... [Read More]


Pope Francis Coffin Pope's History Popes Body
- History from countries and communities across the globe, including the world's major wars. The stories behind the faiths, food, entertainment and holidays that shape our world. Published: April 24, 2025 The burial of popes involves unique ... [Read More]

Source: history.com

Planet Star Tail Comet Host Star Host
- Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet 140 light-years from Earth which is disintegrating, leaving a 9-million-km-long comet-like tail. For now, the disintegrating world is about the same size as Mercury. It orbits its host star every 30.5 hours ... [Read More]


Planets Study Earth Planet Cfa Microlensing
- An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the discovery of a planet about twice the size of Earth orbiting its star farther out than Saturn is to the sun. These results ... [Read More]

Source: phys.org

Ants Ant Fossil Hell Years Vulcanidris
- A remarkable find for ant history was made, not in the field but in a drawer. One of the most intriguing discoveries in entomology was just made — not in the field, but in a drawer. Anderson Lepeco, an entomologist at the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, had been combing through slabs of ancient rock in a collection from a little-known fossil site in northeastern Brazil when he saw something strange: a faint outline that reminded him of something. It wasn't a cockroach or a cricket, the usual fare in this collection. It was something else. "When I started to look ... [Read More]


Bonobos New York Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Associated Press Science Department Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- NEW YORK (AP) — Female bonobos find strength in numbers, teaming up to fend off males in the wild, a new study finds. Along with chimpanzees , bonobos are among humans' closest relatives. Scientists have long wondered why bonobos live in ... [Read More]

Source: apnews.com

Water Moon Wind Solar Wind Hydrogen Sun
- Constant gusts of particles from the sun may be creating water molecules on the moon, a new NASA -led experiment hints. Scientists have detected traces of water molecules — as well as hydroxyl (OH) molecules, a component of water — on ... [Read More]


Caterpillar Bone Rubinoff Species Insects Collector
- A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can live safely alongside spiders, stalking their webs and stealing their prey The newly described "bone collector" caterpillar species disguises itself with the body ... [Read More]


Caterpillars Species Bbc Science Adam Hart Bbc World Service Webs
- A newly discovered species of caterpillar has been found creeping through spider webs on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu – and it's unlike anything scientists have seen before. Not only does it live in an eerily precarious environment, suspended ... [Read More]


Cells Cell Waves Sound Genes Study
- Researchers explore the curious relationship between sound and gene expression in cell cultures. When a sound is loud enough, it doesn't just ring in your ears — it seems to vibrate through your bones and your chest too. Now, scientists have discovered that this sensation may go far deeper than we thought. Cells, it turns out, might also be listening . That's the conclusion of a striking new study from Kyoto University. Researchers found that simple sound waves — nothing more than vibrations in the air — can cause genes to switch on and off, alter cell behavior, and even ... [Read More]


Curiosity Image Rover Science Tracks Camera
- NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has never been camera shy, having been seen in selfies and images taken from space. But on Feb. 28—the 4,466th Martian day, or sol, of the mission—Curiosity was captured in what is believed to be the first ... [Read More]

Source: phys.org

Zoo Santa Cruz Gal Aacute Pagos Tortoises Mommy Tortoises Santa Cruz Gal Aacute Pagos San Diego
- Four adorable western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise babies are now on display at Philadelphia Zoo after their 100-year-old 'Mommy' reproduced for the first time. Four endangered baby tortoises have made their highly anticipated public debut ... [Read More]


Males Bonobos Females Martin Surbeck Bonobo Scientists
- Females reign supreme in bonobo society by working together to keep males in their place. Male domination is the natural order of things, some people say. But bonobos, primates with whom we share nearly 99 percent of our DNA, beg to differ. Bonobos ... [Read More]

Source: nytimes.com

Archaea Gut Microbes Methane Health Methanobrevibacter
- Archaea – an often-overlooked group of microbes – are quietly living in our guts, and scientists are finally starting to understand just how important they might be. While most research on the human microbiome has focused on bacteria, a ... [Read More]

Source: earth.com

Quantum Quantum Communication Encryption Computers Quantum Communications Network Qkd
- Scientists have made the first-ever coherent quantum communication using existing telecomms infrastructure Researchers at Toshiba Europe have used quantum key distribution (QKD) cryptography to send messages a record 254km using a traditional fibre optic cable network. It's the first time scientists have achieved a coherent quantum communication using existing telecomms infrastructure. The breakthrough marks a step closer to ultra-secure quantum encryption, which could fend off hacks from even the most advanced classical and quantum computers of the future.   QKD is a form of ... [Read More]


Corona Borealis Great Wall Hercules Gamma Grbs Universe Hakkila
- The universe's largest structure, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, was already a challenge to explain with models of the universe due to its incredibly vast size — and now, using the most powerful blasts of energy in the universe, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), astronomers have discovered this structure is even bigger than they realized. Plus, the team even found that parts of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall are actually closer to Earth than previously suspected. The Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall is a so-called "supercluster" of galaxies; it's a filament of the cosmic ... [Read More]


Leone Turtle Box Garden State Tortoise Rockalina Years
- Garden State Tortoise founder Chris Leone gets plenty of requests to take in turtles people can no longer care for. Rockalina's case was different. "Like we do in any rescue, we ask to see the photos ... And they sent us the photos, and my wife and I, our jaws hit the ground," he told NPR. A young boy found Rockalina, a wild eastern box turtle, while playing near his New York home in 1977. His family took her in and for nearly 50 years, she stayed there. She remained on a slick kitchen floor, eating cat food and occasionally lettuce. The environment wasn't like anything she knew in the wild, ... [Read More]

Source: npr.org

Evidence Gladiators Lions Marks Becky Gowland Durham University's
- Images of gladiators being mauled by lions have been featured on mosaics and pottery, but this is the first time skeletal evidence of the fighting has been found. Bite marks on a Roman-era skeleton found in York are the first physical evidence gladiators fought animals, experts have said. Teeth imprints from a large cat were found on the pelvis of a man buried in a cemetery believed to contain the remains of gladiators. Images of gladiators being mauled by lions have been featured on mosaics and pottery, but this is the first time skeletal evidence of the fighting has been found. Academics ... [Read More]

Source: news.sky.com

Bleaching Coral Temperatures Reefs Reef Scientists
- Coral reefs around the world are losing their color at an unprecedented scale as a result of rising sea temperatures, federal marine scientists announced this week, with 84 percent of reefs exposed to bleaching levels of heat since 2023. The massive blow to marine habitats reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — the highest share ever recorded — comes as the planet experiences its fourth global coral bleaching event, which occurs when bleaching is confirmed in every one of the oceans' basins at once. It raises new concerns about the precarious nature of ... [Read More]


Los Angeles Santa Monica Topanga Creek Animals Mountains Fire
- SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS, Calif. — Tuna Canyon was too quiet. The rugged gorge on the edge of Los Angeles, overlooking the twinkling Pacific Ocean, would normally be buzzing with the sounds of life: birdsong from the bushes, the patter of paws on the hillside, the splash of newts in the stream below. That was before the mountains burned. The January firestorms across this Southern California county torched entire neighborhoods and displaced thousands of people. But the disaster also tore through the natural world, disrupting fragile ecosystems that — despite popular imagination ... [Read More]