Articles of interest from across the scientific community.
The Earth’s inner core is restless. Its accelerations and oscillations shift the Earth’s surface, affecting the length of day …
There and back again: The Black Death began in central Eurasia, before traveling west, then spreading back to the east …
Pricier than gold and particularly pernicious, palladium is the catalyst that chemists cannot kick, no matter how hard they try …
Access is limited, and the stakes are high. Keeping tabs on nuclear submarine fuel is a tricky problem, but a solution might be near …
A cold, dark home: Evidence has been unearthed for polar-loving dinosaurs putting down roots in northern Alaska …
Back to the future: Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels now match those 4 million years ago, back when forests cloaked the arctic …
Fifteen million years ago, our ancestors surely did not forget to scream when ambushed by the man-eating giant dwarf crocodiles …
“To be sentient is to be aware of yourself in the world,” writes Gary Marcus. “LaMDA simply isn’t. It’s just an illusion” …
At $100 billion, the cost of a next-generation Large Hadron Collider seems astronomically dear for a stab in the dark …
Modern man arrived in Neanderthal Europe with newfangled technology in tow some 54,000 years ago …
All the better to hear you with: surgeons have successfully transplanted a 3D bioimplant of an ear made from living cells …
Extremely aggressive, anti-social, and solitary: the blind mole rat might have a lot to teach us about the human mind …
Spread 112 miles beneath the waves of Shark Bay, Western Australia, lies the world’s largest plant, Posidonia australis …
Slow dancer: A new class of star is heralded by the discovery of a radio signal–emitting neutron star that rotates extremely slowly …
Evolving environments mean evolving genes. The genes of many wild animals adapt two to four times faster than previously thought …
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