Iraq’s Lake Razazah: Drought, Algae, and Crop Circles
Lake Razazah in Iraq transforms due to drought, revealing vibrant algae colors and crop circles. Water diversion for irrigation intensifies salinity, impacting the lake's ecosystem.
Jurassic Dinosaurs: Footprints Discovered on Isle of Skye
Dinosaur footprints from the Middle Jurassic period (168-166 million years ago) have been discovered on the Isle of Skye. The tracks reveal theropods and sauropods dinosaurs in a shallow lagoon.
Race as a Social Construct: Science vs. Nature
Science reveals race is a social construct, not biological reality. Early studies tried to define race by physical traits, but modern genetics and anthropology show human variation is fluid and socially defined. Race: social construct.
Ancient Arabian cymbals ring up Bronze Age musical connections
These findings indicate that contact between ancient communities on both sides of the Arabian Gulf resulted in shared musical traditions central to rituals and religious beliefs, Douglas’ team says.
Colgate Kids battery-powered toothbrush review: Fun and ultra-affordable
The handle is ergonomically designed for little hands, making it easy to grip and move around the mouth, while the extra soft bristles are gentle on tiny teeth and gums, ensuring a comfortable brushing experience for even the most sensitive tots.
Plant-based waterproof material could replace single-use plastics
Noriyuki Isobe at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Yokosuka and his colleagues discovered that when cellulose is treated with a solution of lithium bromide, it doesn’t require a coagulant – it can simply be left to dry instead.
Redmi Watch 5 review
It boasts hundreds of workout modes, has 5ATM water resistance and an outstanding battery life of 24 days, plus you can monitor your heart rate, blood oxygen, stress levels, sleep and more — all for a bargain price.
A shingles vaccine may also help reduce dementia risk
The researchers explored how vaccination against shingles — an illness that develops when the virus causing chicken pox reactivates later in life — might influence dementia risk, finding a more prominent effect in women than in men.
Extreme weather could disrupt China’s renewable energy boom
Wind, solar and hydropower currently make up about half of China’s power generation capacity, and are expected to increase to almost 90 per cent by 2060, when the country has pledged to reach “carbon neutrality”.
Physicists have confirmed a new mismatch between matter and antimatter
Two protons (indicated with p’s) collide at the LHCb experiment, producing a lambda-b baryon comprised of three quarks — dubbed up (u), down (d) and bottom (b) — that decays into various other particles (colored lines).
Current AI models a ‘dead end’ for human-level intelligence, scientists agree
All of these bottlenecks have presented major challenges to companies working to boost AI’s performance, causing scores on evaluation benchmarks toplateau and OpenAI's rumored GPT-5 model to never appear, some of the survey respondents said.
‘Star Wars’ holds clues to making speedier spacecraft in the real world
A former intern at Audubon magazine and Atlanta’s NPR station, WABE 90.1 FM, he has reported a wide range of science stories for radio, print, and digital media.