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Ecology Mar 21, 2024

New research shows unintended harms of organic farming

Organic farming is often touted as a more sustainable solution for food production, leveraging natural forms of pest control to promote eco-friendly cultivation.

Astronomy Mar 18, 2024

Largest-ever map of universe's active supermassive black holes released

Astronomers have charted the largest-ever volume of the universe with a new map of active supermassive black holes living at the centers of galaxies. Called quasars, the gas-gobbling black holes are, ironically, some of the ...

Archaeology Mar 21, 2024

Shakespeare's sister: Digital archives reveal hidden insights into world-famous playwright's unknown sibling

By analyzing digital copies of an incredibly rare and obscure 17th-century Italian religious text, a University of Bristol academic has revealed that a long-lost document previously thought to have been written by William ...

Plants & Animals Mar 6, 2024

Scientists CT scanned thousands of natural history specimens, which you can access for free

Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of openVertebrate (oVert), a five-year collaborative project among 18 institutions to create 3D reconstructions ...

Archaeology Mar 22, 2024

Researcher uses machine learning to help digitize ancient texts from Indus civilization

The civilization of Indus River Valley is considered one of the three earliest civilizations in world history, along with Mesopotamia and Egypt. Bigger geographically than those two as it unfolded starting in 3300 BCE across ...

Social Sciences Mar 2, 2024

Billionaires are building bunkers and buying islands—are they prepping for apocalypse or pioneering a new feudalism?

In December 2023, WIRED reported that Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire CEO of Meta and one of the foremost architects of today's social-media-dominated world, has been buying up large swathes of the Hawaiian island Kauai.

Plants & Animals Mar 1, 2024

Asian elephants mourn, bury their dead calves: Study

Asian elephants loudly mourn and bury their dead calves, according to a study by Indian scientists that details animal behavior reminiscent of human funeral rites.

Astronomy Mar 11, 2024

More precise understanding of dark energy achieved using AI

A UCL-led research team has used artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to infer the influence and properties of dark energy more precisely from a map of dark and visible matter in the universe covering the last 7 billion ...

Earth Sciences Mar 4, 2024

Mantle convection linked to seaway closure that transformed Earth's oceanographic circulation patterns

Continental drift is a concept familiar to many, referencing the movement of Earth's continents due to shifting tectonic plates over millions of years, splitting one globe-spanning supercontinent into the configuration we ...

Planetary Sciences Mar 1, 2024

Physicists suggest a possible way to confirm or deny the existence of the Chinguetti meteorite

Three physicists have taken a new look at the circumstances surrounding the mysterious Chinguetti meteorite and developed a means for confirming whether it exists or not. In their paper posted to the arXiv preprint server, ...

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