Stone head found in Lake Nemi may be from Caligula’s Nemi ships |

A stone head found at the bottom of Lake Nemi in Italy’s Lazio region may be from Caligula’s Nemi ships. The discovery was made by the Municipal Civil Protection of…

Sense of Purpose May Shield Against Loneliness

Summary: A sense of purpose in life, irrespective of its nature, can be a robust defense against loneliness. A new study, involving over 2,300 Swiss adults, found fewer instances of…

Headlines involving the fascinating (and perilous) world of oceanography and marine biology can be viewed on the Marine Science channel

The recent tragic loss of the Titan submersible in the depths of the North Atlantic has brought the fascinating (and very dangerous) world of Oceanography and Marine Science to the…

Six Degrees of Connection: A Mathematical Take on Social Ties

Summary: Scientists used mathematics to explain the social phenomenon of six degrees of separation. Their work suggests that the balance between the cost and benefit of maintaining social connections shapes…

Bottlenose dolphin moms use baby talk with their calves

McKenzie Prillaman was the Spring 2023 science writing intern at Science News. She holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience with a minor in bioethics from the University of Virginia and…

Novel ‘toggle-switch’ could lead to more versatile quantum processors with clearer outputs

This photo shows the central working region of the device. In the lower section, the three large rectangles (light blue) represent the two quantum bits, or qubits, at right and…

Being born in a city no longer increases their chances of survival

by Peter Macharia, Andrea Barnabas Pembe, Claudia Hanson and Lenka Benova, The Conversation Each dot on this map represents a group of households surveyed during the 2016 Tanzania Demographic and…

Heating only one room could be key to lowering home working emissions

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People who work from home and heat more than one room will prompt significantly higher carbon emissions than those who work in an office, new research…

Researchers model and test ground conditions on the moon

On the moon, the landscape covered in what is called regolith—a mixture of dust, larger particles, and fragments. Credit: NASA From 1967 to 1972, the American space agency NASA conducted…

Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

WHAT DID THE 2012 EARLY CAREER AWARD ALLOW YOU TO DO? Why is there something instead of nothing?  What is the origin of mass in the universe?  These are the…