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Webb captures two baby stars growing inside a dusty cloud
12+ hour, 40+ min ago (722+ words) Webb offers a rare look at how two young stars gather material, release powerful outflows, and slowly grow toward maturity. Today’s Image of the Day from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals two young stars still gathering the material they…...
Scientists think they know how the first birds on Earth learned to fly
12+ hour, 42+ min ago (986+ words) A computer model suggests Archaeopteryx may have used two or three powerful leaps to build enough speed for flight. Bird flight did not appear in its modern form all at once. Early feathered animals still carried dinosaur features, so the…...
Rare footage shows dolphins using empty seashells as tools to catch fish, a skill called ‘shelling’
12+ hour, 54+ min ago (906+ words) Video footage shows dolphins using empty seashells to catch fish and a calf potentially learning the hunting technique from its mother. Dolphins do not all hunt in the same way. Some develop local feeding methods that require memory, timing, and…...
Two-thirds of the world’s population will soon have to contend with too little water or poor quality water
13+ hour, 32+ min ago (933+ words) Water quality may worsen water scarcity, leaving billions without enough suitable water for homes, farms, factories and power. Water scarcity is often treated as a simple supply problem, but the amount of available water is only part of the picture....
Cement plants could pull more carbon from the air than they release
14+ hour, 17+ min ago (918+ words) Cement plants could become carbon-negative by combining electric kilns with direct air capture to pull CO2 from the atmosphere. Cement is in nearly every sidewalk, foundation, and highway overpass on Earth. Making it means heating limestone until it breaks apart. That…...
Newly-discovered dragon lizard named after a ‘Game of Thrones’ character
13+ hour, 7+ min ago (995+ words) Scientists discovered a new yellow mountain horned dragon in Thailand and named it Acanthosaura syrax after a dragon from House of the Dragon. High-mountain forests can hide animals that resemble familiar species but carry important physical and genetic differences. In…...
Extreme weather is deadlier than many people realize
13+ hour, 16+ min ago (988+ words) Many Americans underestimate the health risks of extreme weather, including flooding, wildfire smoke, drought, and extreme temperatures. Climate change can raise health risks linked to heat, floods, drought, and wildfire smoke, but danger is harder to manage when people do…...
Uranus and Neptune may not be what we thought
13+ hour, 23+ min ago (1064+ words) Scientists are rethinking Uranus and Neptune as new evidence suggests the so-called ice giants may contain far less ice than once believed. For decades, Uranus and Neptune have occupied their own category in the Solar System: the ice giants. The…...
A newly discovered coral species is so genetically unique that scientists had to create an entirely new family to classify it
13+ hour, 19+ min ago (958+ words) Scientists diving in Costa Rica found a new coral species, Laurinque elenya, that is so genetically distinct it required the creation of an entirely new family for its classification. Much of the deep ocean remains beyond regular human view, even…...
Brain recordings revealed the tune people were silently humming in their heads
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1003+ words) Brain recordings reveal that imagined melodies are represented by the relationships between notes rather than their exact pitches. Almost anyone can hear a familiar tune in their head without making a sound. Sing that tune lower and it is still…...