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Strange 'centaur' object between Saturn and Uranus has mysterious, changing rings, James Webb telescope study hints
The rings around a strange small body orbiting between Saturn and Uranus look mysteriously different from previous views, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest. The rings encircle Chariklo…
'Maybe robots can maintain houseplants': Readers react to letting humanoid robots take over their housework
The idea of a humanoid robot folding laundry , loading the dishwasher or vacuuming once sounded like a scene from "The Jetsons." Now, as robotics companies race to develop machines that can navigate everyday environment…
Peculiar land bridge separates a pair of colorful lakes in Patagonia — Earth from space
Where is it? Lake Pueyrredón and Lake Posadas, Argentina [ -47.41961002, -71.87622200 ] What's in the photo? The point where two different-colored lakes meet Who took the photo? An unnamed astronaut on board the Inter…
Scientists have a new view of the ground under Los Angeles, and it's a bit shaky. The 3D model of the Los Angeles basin shows that downtown LA is underpinned …
What it is: A copper-alloy sculpture of an African ruler's head In the Kingdom of Benin, one of the oldest monarchies in West Africa, a traditional ruler know…
In women's reproductive years, their brains are exposed to high levels of sex hormones, and their neurons may come to depend on those hormones to function opti…
With fall now upon us, many of us will be dusting off our binoculars and telescopes ready for the longer nights this season brings. Earlier sunsets mean more s…
Where it is: 160,000 light-years away, in the constellation Dorado It looks like a gigantic hole punched through a cloud, but this spectacular new image from …
In a multicat household, it's common to see one cat licking another. When some people see this behavior, known as allogrooming ("allo" means "another individua…
Ancient armored fish, known as placoderms, evolved two distinct methods for crushing prey around 385 million years ago, revealing complex jaw mechanics that al…
Water fueled volcanoes 3 billion years ago via “dripduction,” not plate tectonics. This proves deep Earth water circulation began before modern tectonics, resh…
Researchers have introduced a unified framework demonstrating that thermoelectric performance relies on various factors beyond the materials themselves, includ…
Scientists melted diamonds with a powerful laser to take some of the most precise measurements of the mineral's elusive melting point — and found that previous…
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that hunt for cancer may do a better job when they approach the analysis as if they were a human pathologist, a new stu…
