[ad_1] A pair of orcas terrorizing white sharks off the coast of South Africa may have captured the popular imagination, but their activities may be quite damaging, new research suggests. Port and Starboard, as the orcas (Orcinus orca) are known, have been documented hunting white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) off the coast of South Africa for…
[ad_1] A team of astronomers has stumbled upon a humungous spiral galaxy, about five times more massive than our Milky Way galaxy and covering an area two times as big, making it among the largest known galaxies. The most surprising trait of the galaxy, however, is not its colossal size but the fact it existed…
[ad_1] CLIMATEWIRE | Top Wall Street institutions are preparing for a severe future of global warming that blows past the temperature limits agreed to by more than 190 nations a decade ago, industry documents show. The big banks’ acknowledgment that the world is likely to fail at preventing warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius…
[ad_1] In China, it is known as “the lonely disease”. The Japanese term translates as “intentionally shut”. Across the world, there is a perception of autistic people as aloof, socially awkward and isolated, seeming to not only lack the kind of automatic social instinct that enables successful interaction, but also the desire to achieve it….
[ad_1] Sweetened vanilla, calming lavender, or fragrant jasmine and lotus may fill your home with enticing aromas. But new research shows that the supposed stress-reducing and mood-enhancing effects of scented products may come with unwanted indoor pollution. “While these products are widely used to create a cozy atmosphere, their emissions can impact indoor air quality,…
[ad_1] NASA and Department of Defense teams work to recover the Orion crew module test article as they practice Artemis 2 post-splashdown procedures during Underway Recovery Test-12 on board the USS Somerset off the coast of California on Friday, March 28, 2025. (Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls and Joel Kowsky) As seen from inside the well…
[ad_1] A new cement-making process could shift production from being a carbon source to a carbon sink, creating a carbon-negative version of the building material, researchers report March 18 in Advanced Sustainable Systems. This process might also be adaptable to producing a variety of carbon-stashing products such as paint, plaster and concrete. Cement production is…
[ad_1] A smaller, lighter and more energy efficient computer, demonstrated at the University of Michigan, could help save weight and power for autonomous drones and rovers, with implications for autonomous vehicles more broadly. The autonomous controller has among the lowest power requirements reported, according to the study published in Science Advances. It operates at a…
[ad_1] It’s Monday, and my alarm buzzes at 6:00 A.M. I groggily get up, already running through the day in my head. I am a business professor, so I have a full schedule of classes to teach, e-mails to answer, and research deadlines to meet, but before I can start working, there are 100 other…
[ad_1] An observer hiding inside a black hole can eavesdrop on quantum objects outside it van van/Shutterstock Quantum eavesdropping is possible across a black hole’s event horizon, one of the most impermeable cosmic boundaries – at least in one direction. Daine Danielson at the University of Chicago, Illinois, wanted to know how the structure of…