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5 Ways AI Is Helping Fight Climate Change

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15 Groundbreaking AI Startups to Watch

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10 Ethical Issues in AI Everyone Should Know

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10 Best Online Courses to Learn AI (Free and Paid)

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5 Must-Read Books to Understand AI

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Scientists Uncover Aquatic Origins of Echidnas Through a Tiny Fossil

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster Messier 72 (M72). Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini, G. Piotto, M. Libralato

Shining Jewels of the Cosmos: Hubble’s New Vision of Messier 72

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Physicist Cracks 30-Year Black Hole Mystery Using Revolutionary Physics

The wavelet power spectrum of the three EUV emission lines: (a) He II 304 Å, (b) C III 977 Å, (c) H I 972 Å, and (d) TEC. The solid black line denotes 99 significance. The white hashed area is outside the cone of influence, and the colour bar represents the normalized wavelet power. Credit: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1029/2024JA033493

Earth’s Atmosphere Is More Sensitive to Solar Ripples Than Ever Imagined

The SwRI-led NASA New Horizons mission's extensive observations of Lyman-alpha emissions have resulted in the first-ever map from the galaxy in Lyman-alpha light. This SwRI-developed Alice spectrograph map (in ecliptic coordinates, centered on the direction opposite the Sun) depicts the relatively uniform brightness of the Lyman-alpha background surrounding our heliosphere. The black dots represent approximately 90,000 known UV-bright stars in our galaxy. The north and south galactic poles are indicated (NGP & SGP, respectively), along with the flow direction of the interstellar medium through the solar system (both upstream and downstream). Credit: Southwest Research Institute

New Horizons Paints the First Lyman-Alpha Map of the Galaxy

Odds ratio of the hypotheses that abiogenesis is a fast vs. slow process. Credit: arXiv: DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.05993

Does Life Spark Quickly on New Worlds? A New Study Says It’s Likely

The correlation between gravity and gravity from shape, and effective density. Credit: Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02533-7

Vesta’s Shocking Secret: Rethinking the Origins of a “Mini-Planet”

The power spectrum around the frequency of M15O. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.16872

China’s FAST Telescope Discovers Elusive Millisecond Pulsar in Ancient Star Cluster

A preliminary reconstruction shows the late antique church of Artaxata. Credit: University of Münster

Ancient Christian Church Discovered in Armenia’s Artaxata

Well-man skeleton. Credit: Åge Hojem NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet

Ancient DNA Brings ‘Well-man’ from the Sverris Saga to Life

A graphic showing the three types of 'bad cholesterol' lipoprotein carriers which all contain the apoB particle as a defining structural feature. Credit: Chalmers University of Technology | Jakub Morze

Study Finds New Blood Test Could Improve Heart Disease Prevention

Through behavioral experiments in mice coupled with advanced neuronal imaging, researchers found how sleep helps consolidate past experiences in engram cells and prepare engram-to-be cells to store future experiences. Credit: Kaoru Inokuchi from the University of Toyama, Japan

Study Reveals Sleep’s Dual Role in Memory Consolidation and Future Learning

Although the Bay of Bengal covers less than 1% of the global ocean, it supplies nearly 8% of the world's fishery production. Scientists are looking to the past to predict the effect of monsoons on future marine life there. Credit: Kate Littler/International Ocean Discovery Program

Monsoon Extremes Threaten Bay of Bengal’s Marine Life, New Research Warns

Credit: Thomas Müller (HdA/MPIA) and Thavisha Dharmawardena (NYU)

Scientists Discover Eos, a Massive Star-Forming Cloud Near Earth

Among the pairs of species compared in the study are the Yellow Warbler (left) and the Prothonotary Warbler— an obligate cavity nester. Credit: Shelby Lawson and Michael Jeffords

Female Birds Fight Fiercely for Nesting Sites

Individually color-coded Stegodyphus spiders. Credit: Dr. Virginia Settepani

Study Finds Social Spiders Are More Flexible Than We Thought

Early Homo sapiens burial examples including a double burial from Qafzeh Cave (#9-10) [A], an adult with a boar jaw (green) at Skhul 5 [B], and an adolescent with deer antler (red) at Qafzeh 11 [C]. Credit: Been and Barzilai 2024. Prof. Bernard Vandermeersch.

How Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals Honored Their Dead 100,000 Years Ago

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10 Common Misconceptions About Artificial Intelligence

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7 Key Differences Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

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13 Popular AI Applications That Are Shaping the Future

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6 Essential Programming Languages for AI Development

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10 Ways AI Is Transforming Healthcare

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5 Beginner-Friendly AI Projects You Can Try Today

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9 Industries Being Revolutionized by AI

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20 Fascinating Facts About Artificial Intelligence