The 42 known species of the genus Rafflesia are under threat due to deforestation and habitat destruction.

John Divinagracia is a writer and novelist. He is the author of It’s Always Snowing in Iberia (2021) and was a fellow at the ...

The late Stone Age is not commonly associated with socially stratified societies, yet archaeologist Mehmet Özdoğan argues social and political elites were already shaping communities when humans began ...

Today, that site is once again making headlines. Archaeologists have unearthed a gigantic coffin weighing 16 tonnes, ...

The 2025 ceremony, held at Boston University, showcased a range of peculiar studies — from whether Teflon can curb hunger to ...

The Trump administration’s proposal for the Golden Dome missile defense shield, which was sold as a means to protect the U.S.

Two epaulette sharks at OdySea Aquarium in Arizona. Image by Coughdrop12 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). When Laurie ...

Now, an innovative artificial intelligence (AI) tool is offering a new way to detect consciousness, revealing that some ...

SpaceX is currently expanding operations at Kennedy Space Center with the aim of launching its next-generation Starship ...

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That scattering is called the Tyndall effect. It’s the same phenomenon that makes the sky or ocean look blue, even though the ...