A spacecraft has spied a spiky “hedgehog” on the sun and watched a solar flare in ways never done before. The Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between the European Space Agency…
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Great white sharks may have helped drive megalodons to extinction
For millions of years, megalodon sharks were top ocean predators — and then came the great whites. New analyses of shark teeth hint that competition for food from great white…
An ‘acoustic camera’ shows joining the right boy band boosts a frog’s sex appeal
Loud sounds matter in both car design and frog flirting. So New Hampshire biologists lugged an acoustic camera used by car designers to springtime frog-mating pools to explore female preferences.…
Scientists hope to mimic the most extreme hurricane conditions
Winds howl at over 300 kilometers per hour, battering at a two-story wooden house and ripping its roof from its walls. Then comes the water. A 6-meter-tall wave engulfs the…
Astrophysicists simulate a fuzzy dark matter galactic halo
Density slices zooming into a fuzzy dark matter halo. The plot on the right shows the reconstructed fuzzy dark matter wave function with self-consistent interference pattern and central solitonic core…
Missing COVID-19 data leave us in the dark about the current surge
As science journalists, we’re accustomed to data. We sift through it and talk it over with experts. We pay close attention to the stories that numbers can tell. But at…
High altitudes may be a climate refuge for some birds, but not these hummingbirds
Cooler, higher locales may not be very welcoming to some hummingbirds trying to escape rising temperatures and other effects of climate change. Anna’s hummingbirds live no higher than about 2,600…
High altitudes may be a climate refuge for some birds, but not these hummingbirds
Cooler, higher locales may not be very welcoming to some hummingbirds trying to escape rising temperatures and other effects of climate change. Anna’s hummingbirds live no higher than about 2,600…
4 answers to key questions about the monkeypox outbreak
An outbreak of monkeypox has some people worried that the world is on the brink of another pandemic. That’s not likely, experts say. The concern has been fueled by more…
Lasers reveal ancient urban sprawl hidden in the Amazon
A massive urban landscape that contained interconnected campsites, villages, towns and monumental centers thrived in the Amazon rainforest more than 600 years ago. In what is now Bolivia, members of…
