On March 2, 2022, delegates to the UN environment assembly adopted an ambitious resolution to develop the text of a new ...

Imagine you are a blue whale swimming up the California coast, as you do every spring. You are searching for krill in the ...

A recent study in Physical Review Letters explores quantum effects on black hole thermodynamics and geometry, focusing on ...

Since we last spoke, researchers at the University of Birmingham have defined the precise shape of a single photon (spoiler: ...

Peer review is a central feature of academic work. It's the process through which research ends up published in an academic ...

The term "social distancing" spread out across the public vocabulary in recent years as people around the world changed ...

A team of marine biologists from Norway, the U.S. and Denmark has conducted the first hearing test of a live baleen whale.

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Protons and neutrons–known collectively as nucleons–are both the building blocks of matter, but one of these particles has ...

Federal officials released a range of scenarios on Nov 20 that could be used to manage the over-allocated and shrinking ...

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...

Cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, have existed for billions of years, adapting to a diverse range of environments. Their ...