The temples of Hawaii are renowned for their varied forms and orientations, but could it be that this veneer of irregularity masks a pattern that sheds fresh light on these monuments? Patrick Kirch and Clive Ruggles told Current World Archaeology's Matthew Symonds what systematic study of the temple sites reveals.

The Barefoot Gallery Colombo serves as a platform for artists, musicians, poets and filmmakers. The space is used in a variety of ways: exhibitions by local and foreign artists and photographers, (inc...

Why Not to Cower in the Face of Gloomy Tech Predictions

It’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since…

Oceanic islands are global hotspots of avian biodiversity and endemism. Their isolation and distinct environmental conditions have uniquely shaped the evolutionary trajectories of island birds, while...

Interviewing a spacecraft isn’t something one does every day. It certainly wasn’t an option back in the late 1970s, when Voyager 1 and 2 set off on a mission like no other before or since: to visit so...

NASA’s two Mars-destined ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft captured photos of Earth and the Moon in visible and thermal infrared light.

Climate change is expected to cause irreversible changes to biodiversity, but predicting those risks remains uncertain. I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections to produce a quant...

Astrophysicists present an overview of the thermal history of our Universe and the sequence of objects (e.g., protons, planets, and galaxies) that condensed out of the background as the Universe expan...

A humans-in-the-loop feed for the aviation community — if made by people and flying up to the Kármán Line you'll find it on BluFly 🛩️.

YouTube video by Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES)

Scroll through the complete life of one HTTP request in real time — from a click in a coffee shop through DNS, TCP, TLS, the kernel, Node's event loop, and Postgres, back to the pixel. Time only passe...

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The University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.

The binding problem and the criticality problem represent two of neuroscience’s most persistent challenges: how do distributed neural processes create unifie...

Record-breaking heat waves are even stunning scientists monitoring the acceleration of climate change.

Learning from Star Trek’s space whales

We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

Around 23,000 people voted to select the top team, who are now the first ever Global Winners to come from India.

The new energy system offers an unprecedented chance to lift 660 million people out of energy poverty by giving them cheaper and ubiquitously available energy. Let's make it happen.

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Yes, "the laws of physics break down" at singularities. But relativity itself would have to be wrong for black holes to not possess them.

Examination of fish that died on the day the Mesozoic ended reveal that the impact that caused the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction occurred during boreal spring.

Examination of fish that died on the day the Mesozoic ended reveal that the impact that caused the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction occurred during boreal spring.

This paper aims to review the diverse range of technosignatures that have been proposed in the literature. We organize the review by scales, starting carefully from Earth, then zooming out to Earth's ...

The “warming hole” or “cold blob” in the northern Atlantic represents a full-depth heat content decline The region of declining heat content does not correspond to an area of increasing surface h...

Antarctica is an important component of the Earth’s climate system. Here we investigate temperature change in Antarctica across a range of timescal...

A paper presenting an updated assessment of climate tipping points was published yesterday in the journal Science. Here, the paper’s lead author (and publisher of climatetippingpoints.info) D…

We use a three-dimensional model to calculate steady-state climates at various intervals in Earth's future

The Canadian Aviation Historical Society Annual Convention

He Whakaputanga Moana is the first Indigenous-led Declaration recognizing whales as sentient beings with inherent rights. Grounded in Te Ao Māori and Polynesian values, it establishes legal protection...

Subglacial meltwater flushed methane from the gas hydrate stability zone and released it into seawater during Greenland Ice Sheet retreat across the continental shelf in the last deglaciation, accordi...

Solenostomus snuffleupagus is a hairy ghost pipefish found in the Great Barrier Reef. Eluding researchers for over 20 years thanks to its ability to camouflage, the fuzzy fish has officially been name...

Off the coast of Dominica, in water deep enough to swallow a skyscraper, a female sperm whale draws breath and dives. Somewhere below, she clicks. Not randomly. Not reflexively. She clicks in sequence...

Carbon dioxide highest in millions of years - update

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has traditionally focused on the detection of narrowband electromagnetic beacons.

Squabbling Galactic Siblings

We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…

Nature’s oxygen-making machinery reveals possible blueprint for developing light-harvesting systems

The latest news from the NSF's National Radio Astronomy Observatory.