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Topic: Science (page 10)

Mars habitat landscape (Getty Images/CoreyFord)

Are we ready to head to Mars? Maybe not

Christie Aschwanden - Undark
Serotine bat (Alona Shulenko, CC BY-SA)

These bat penises are too long for sex

Matthew Rozsa
The artist's conception shows a hypothetical planet with two moons orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. (NASA/D. Aguilar/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

A new target in search for alien life

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Artist concept of the Milky Way (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

New studies on how galaxies form spirals

Nicole Karlis
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Young woman and elderly woman holding hands (Getty Images/ipopba)

How does intergenerational trauma work?

Matthew Rozsa
Lava erupts from the crater of a volcano near the mountain Litli-Hrútur, about 40 kilometers southwest of Reykjavik, Iceland. (Philipp Schulze/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Iceland prepares for volcanic eruption

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Two chimpanzees meeting with each other apparently having a discussion using hand gestures (Getty Images/curioustiger)

What chimp kids tell us about language

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Bacteriophage infecting bacterium (Getty Images/Design Cells)

Vampire viruses prey on other viruses

Ivan Erill - The Conversation
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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris (R) looks on as President Joe Biden signs a new executive order guiding his administration's approach to artificial intelligence during an event in the East Room of the White House on October 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Biden's excutive order on AI explained

Rae Hodge
Man Speaking On Energy and Climate (Getty Images/Laurence Dutton)

Most countries can’t access climate data

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Man stands with umbrella outside looking at large collection of big alarm clocks drowning in the sea. (Getty Images/mikkelwilliam)

What is a world without time?

Meghan Beaudry
A Camptosaurus (L) and an Allosaurus skeletons are displayed on November 13, 2018 at the Artcurial auction house in Paris. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Dinosaur cannibalism was common: study

Nicole Karlis
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Doctors in surgery (Getty Images/Paul Harizan)

Second pig heart recipient dies

Rae Hodge
Comet (Getty Images/Ricardo Filipe/500px)

"Devil comet" to swing by Earth in 2024

Rae Hodge
Engineer working on checking equipment in solar power plant with galaxies in the background (Getty Images/Pramote Polyamate)

Coming soon: Solar panel space farms

Rae Hodge
A worker harvests salt from an evaporation pond at a salt factory on May 14, 2021 in Leizhou, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province of China. (Zhan Youbing/VCG via Getty Images)

Earth is getting too salty, experts warn

Matthew Rozsa
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Artwork of the so-called ring of fire. This is a region of tectonic plate boundaries around the Pacific Ocean, where earthquakes and volcanoes are common. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The case of the missing tectonic plate

Rae Hodge
Antarctica, ice on the sea (Getty Images/Mantas Vidutis/500px)

Earth enters "uncharted territory"

Matthew Rozsa
Woman gliding through the web on a skateboard (Getty Images/We Are)

Do we live in a computer simulation?

Melvin M. Vopson - The Conversation
A female scientist sits amid large machinery in a leading medical research center. (Getty Images/SolStock)

Sexism causing brain drain in academia

Rae Hodge
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The supermoon rises behind clouds above an apartment block on April 07, 2020 in Manchester, United Kingdom. (Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

Moon 40 million years older: analysis

Rae Hodge
Mosquito in old book with mosquito swatter and blood stain (Getty Images/Nikola Nastasic)

Mosquito-borne illness reaches U.S. soil

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Research Vessel Falkor (too) (Schmidt Ocean Institute)

Treasure trove of "mermaid purses"

Ashley Balzer
Image of an atomic structure consisting of protons, neutrons and electrons (Getty Images/Oselote)

What is an attosecond?

Aaron W. Harrison - The Conversation
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