For the first time, scientists temporarily captured baleen whales and tested their hearing, a controversial step that brings researchers closer to understanding how some of the largest and most intelligent animals on Earth perceive their world. In 2023, researchers captured two juvenile minke whales off the coast of Norway, applied gold-plated electrodes to their skin with suction cups and then examined their brain waves as different frequencies of sound played. Each young whale was at least 12 feet long and weighed about 1 ton. Read More

From the daily newsletter: Eric Lach on the state of the hush-money conviction. Plus: Antonia Hitchens reports from Mar-a-Lago; Matt Gaetz and the early lessons of Trump 2.0; and revisionist fantasies in “Wicked” and “Gladiator II.” Read More

Earthen channels that span more than 640 kilometres show that pre-Mayan Mesoamericans built large-scale fish-trapping facilities earlier than previously thought Read More

Discover the profound divine feminine meaning, its spiritual significance, and how embracing feminine energy can lead to empowerment, balance, and personal growth. Read More

In a study, led by the University of Oxford's Department of Physics and published 18 November in Nature, an international group of authors who developed the science behind net zero demonstrate that relying on 'natural carbon sinks' like forests and oceans to offset ongoing CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use will not actually stop global warming. Read More

For many researchers in biology and other natural sciences, dissecting specimens may not be desirable, though it is often necessary. This is because dissection means killing the animal a researcher is trying to study—a big issue, especially if the species is experiencing a population decline. Read More

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s false claims linking autism to vaccinations are receiving new scrutiny now that President-elect Donald Trump has picked him to lead HHS. Read More

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A rock that formed around 4.5 billion years ago on Mars before being blasted into space by a meteor strike and making its way to Earth contains telltale evidence that it was formed in the presence of hot water Read More

Discover the fascinating meaning of colors! Learn how hues impact emotions, culture, and psychology. Explore the significance behind red, blue, green, and more. Read More

The pterosaurs are extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside their close relatives, the dinosaurs. The largest of these reached 10 m in wingspan, but early forms were generally limited to around 2 m. In a paper, a team led by paleontologist Dr. David Hone of Queen Mary University of London and published in the journal Current Biology describes a new species of pterosaur that helps to explain this important transition. Read More

Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed. And those lingering impacts include some that run contrary to the goals of the policies. Read More

Environmental groups are gearing up to fight the incoming Trump administration, which they expect to make quick and sweeping changes to policies on energy, protected land and more. Read More

When deciding whether to let people await trial at home or in jail, US judges can use a risk score algorithm. But it often makes harsher recommendations than humans do Read More

Discover the profound spiritual and cultural significance of black butterflies. Explore their meaning as symbols of transformation, mystery, intuition, and renewal. Read More

Everyone has a past. That includes the millions of species of insects, arachnids, and nematode worms that make up a major animal group called the Ecdysozoa. Read More

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located 390 million light-years away and a part of the Coma galaxy cluster. Read More

A newly identified chemical byproduct may be present in drinking water in about a third of U.S. homes, a study found. Scientists think it might be toxic but do not yet know. Read More

The Supreme Court Justice talks with David Remnick about the decline in public trust and questions about the Court’s ethics code, and how Justices get along in a very partisan era. Read More

The unexpected discovery of microbial life in a piece of rock from an asteroid shows how hard it is to avoid contaminating samples brought back to Earth Read More

Psychologists who study the human personality often refer to the Big Five personality traits, a model that separates general characteristics into five categories: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and Neuroticism. This psychological model is also known by the acronyms, OCEAN and CANOE. Read More

Astronomers from the Steward Observatory in Arizona and elsewhere report the discovery of a structure consisting of a quasi-stellar object (QSO) and a dusty star-forming galaxy (DSFG), linked by a bridge of ionized carbon. The finding of this unique system was detailed in a paper published November 11 on the pre-print server arXiv. Read More

A powerful atmospheric river is expected to strike northern California and the Pacific Northwest on Tuesday evening, bringing damaging winds, up to 15 inches of rain and heavy snow in the mountains. Read More

Barry Blitt, a cartoonist and an illustrator, has contributed to The New Yorker since 1992. In 2020, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Read More

Projects that spread rock dust on farms are removing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than competing technologies – but CO2 removal efforts remain far short of what is needed to avoid dangerous levels of global warming. Known as enhanced rock weathering, the method involves spreading crushed volcanic rocks over fields to accelerate the natural weathering process by which CO2 in the atmosphere is converted to stable mineral form. Spurred by its relative simplicity – and new evidence that the rock dust can improve crop yields as well as sequester carbon – this… Read More

Ever wondered what the most abundant element on Earth is? Or how the elements that make up our planet compare to those floating out in the vast universe? Read More

Different species of seabirds can coexist on small, isolated islands despite eating the same kind of fish. A researcher at Uppsala University has been involved in developing a mathematical model that can be used to better understand how this ecosystem works. Read More

SpaceX launched the sixth test flight of its Starship rocket on Tuesday, as the company looks to keep up momentum of the mammoth vehicle’s development. Read More

On November 10, 2019, just before Veterans Day, Fox News aired an hour-long special, “Modern Warriors,” featuring one of its political commentators and hosts, Pete Hegseth, along with four men who had served in U.S. Special Operations units. The group sat around a table in what appeared to be the wine cellar of a fancy Manhattan restaurant. They rested their tattooed forearms on the white tablecloth, sipped glasses of red wine, and talked about killing bad guys. Hegseth introduced to viewers a Navy SEAL named Eddie Gallagher, who’d recently beaten a rap for, as Hegseth put it, “mistreating an ISIS terrorist” in Iraq in 2017. Hegseth called Gallagher a “war hero.” In fact, Gallagher had been tried for murder (and a raft of other crimes). His alleged victim was a seventeen-year-old named Khaled Jamal Abdullah, who had been captured by American troops in Mosul and killed while gravely injured. Gallagher’s own platoon had turned him in, describing him, according to a video obtained by the New York Times, as “freaking evil” and “perfectly O.K. with killing anybody that was moving.” They reported that Gallagher had stabbed the teen in the neck and had also, in separate incidents, shot civilians including an old man and a young girl. The evidence against Gallagher included a video of him kneeling next to Abdullah shortly before his death, and photos of him posing with Abdullah’s corpse. The SEAL later texted one to a friend, writing, “Got him with my hunting knife.” Gallagher was acquitted of the murder after another SEAL, who’d been granted... Read More

There is no evidence that advertisers use covert recordings of conversations to target people with adverts, an accusation widely denied by the industry, and yet this belief persists Read More

Discover the meaning of angel number 5555 and its powerful message of transformation, growth, and change. Learn how 5555 guides you towards new beginnings and opportunities Read More

Found encased in ice in 2020 along the Badyarikha River in the Republic of Sakha, a northeastern region of Russia that borders the East Siberian Sea of the Arctic Ocean, a well-preserved specimen offers a rare opportunity to examine an extinct predator that roamed Eurasia during the Late Pleistocene. Read More

The launch, scheduled for about 5 p.m. ET (4 p.m. CT), would be the sixth flight test for the massive Starship rocket, which is nearly 400-feet tall. Last month, the booster completed its fifth flight test with a dramatic catch in the arms of the company’s launch tower. SpaceX is a major government contractor, with $3.8 billion in contracts with federal agencies this year, according to government data, and after Musk helped propel Trump to a second term in the White House, the company has gained a valuable political supporter. Read More

The electable female candidate doesn’t throw her hat into the ring. She delicately places it into the ring and then makes a big deal of saying that anyone who likes her hat should keep it, since it’s easy enough for her to buy another one at Target. She steps confidently onto the debate stage wearing a tight-fitting dress, blue Crocs, and an American-flag jean jacket, which comes across as sexy to some, practical to others, and confusing to most. She is tall enough to string the lights around the top of a Christmas tree without a ladder, yet small enough so as not to be threatening to any congressmen. Read More

Creatine is commonly associated with athletes and bodybuilders, but the popular supplement seems to have broad benefits on everything from ageing to brain function Read More

Discover how zodiac sign elements—Fire, Earth, Air, and Water—shape personalities and compatibility. Learn what your element reveals about your zodiac traits. Read More

A new study, focused on a remote region of the Peruvian Andes where the waters of the Amazon originate, carries lessons for hydropower operators and farming communities worldwide: collaborating on sustainable land management is the best decision they can make for the long-term viability of their businesses and livelihoods. It also opens opportunities for restoration of degraded ecosystems. Read More

The legendary “doom fish” has returned to California. A long, ribbon-shaped oarfish, rarely seen and believed to signal disaster, has washed up on California’s shores for the second time this year. PhD candidate Alison Laferriere from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego discovered the nearly 10-foot-long oarfish on a beach in Encinitas, in southern California, last week. Read More

Ever since Donald Trump left the White House in January, 2021, and flew back to Palm Beach, supporters have held vigil along the drawbridge en route to Mar-a-Lago. For a while, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago was in a sort of prolonged offseason funk. There was a time during his Florida exile when Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Nick Fuentes were the biggest names he could draw to his club’s patio. In 2022, the longest public procession of vehicles to the resort might have been when F.B.I. agents raided Trump’s estate in search of classified documents that he had taken from the White House. But in the days after the 2024 Presidential election, as Trump nominated a growing roster of loyal Florida men to his Cabinet, acolytes made their way to Palm Beach, where his transition team met under a chandelier at Mar-a-Lago. Some members of Congress were as likely to come to Palm Beach as they were to go home to their districts. (It isn’t unheard of for a congressperson’s driver to pick up rideshare fares.) Even Mitt Romney was spotted on a plane from DCA to PBI. Everyone was flying in to see the man who had once advocated, without success, that Palm Beach International Airport be moved ten miles south so that the roar of jets wouldn’t disturb him. Now that he is President-elect, the flight path above the resort is restricted, as it was during his first term, and a canine security robot prowls the club grounds. Read More

Chloramine is used as a disinfectant in drinking water systems from the US to Australia. Research now shows it breaks down into a compound that may have negative health impacts Read More

When you look at the tallest buildings, you're not just gazing at steel and glass; you're witness to a place's aspirations for greatness. These record-breaking skyscrapers reshape urban space, optimize office space and serve as iconic landmarks. Read More

A team led by Prof. Lu Zhengtian and Researcher Xia Tian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) realized a Schrödinger-cat state with minute-scale lifetime using optically trapped cold atoms, significantly enhancing the sensitivity of quantum metrology measurements. The study was published in Nature Photonics. Read More

Scientific American editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth is stepping down after she shared several profanity-filled postings about Donald Trump's election win on social media. Read More

The audience gets what it paid for in both the musical adaptation of the 1992 film, with Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard, and a new show about the treadmill of life. Read More

Arthropods belong to an evolutionary branch – the ecdysozoa – that contains about half of all animal species, and the earliest fossil evidence of the group dates back 550 million years Read More

In geometry, the following congruent angles theorems dictates the different rules given angles must abide by to prove that the corresponding angles are congruent. 1. Vertical Angles Theorem This theorem dictates that vertically orientated, alternate interior angles of two rays intersecting will always be equal. This is because each of the two lines creates a line segment where both angles on the same side must equal 180 degrees, with the other angle mirroring the opposite side. Read More

In a paper published in Science Advances, the Pilhofer Lab (IMBB) together with the Albers Lab from the University of Freiburg describe the structure and function of contractile injection systems from haloarchaea and show how it can structure the local microbial community they thrive in. Read More

Calling all "Ice Age" lovers: The frozen remains of a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed cat have been studied for the first time in history, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports. Read More

Jackson ArnThe New Yorker’s art critic I don’t know what Werner Herzog is up to these days, but if he’s between projects, I humbly suggest that he make a documentary about Luna Luna, the Hamburg amusement park that took more than ten years to put together, included attractions designed by Dalí and Basquiat and Haring and Hockney, and spent thirty-five years in shipping containers. It’s now been partly reassembled at the Shed, for the exhibition “Luna Luna, Forgotten Fantasy,” through Jan. 5. Luna Luna in Hamburg, Germany, in 1987. The park’s Fitzcarraldo, a poet-songwriter-pop star named André Heller, was born in Vienna in 1947 and spent much of his thirties persuading artists to decorate rides. Haring slathered a merry-go-round in melty cartoons; Basquiat dressed a Ferris wheel in his customary graffiti. The park opened to the public in 1987, largely funded by a gossip rag, and stayed that way for a summer. Whatever else it was or wasn’t, it was a masterpiece of networking—Heller used his connections to Dalí and Warhol to recruit a veritable Ocean’s 11 of famous artists young and old, European and American, even if the total number who contributed anything within a thousand miles of their best work was approximately zero. Read More

Groups of wild chimpanzees with more complex tool-using behaviours tend to be genetically linked, providing evidence for cumulative culture in other apes Read More