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As Kilauea erupts a 330-foot-tall fountain of lava, officials warn of hazards from volcanic gas that may affect nearby communities.

Scientists have tagged a giant male great white shark off the East Coast. The researchers said "Contender" is the largest male white shark ever caught and studied in the northwest Atlantic.

In April 1982, Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the quasiperiodic crystal. According to diffraction measur...

Inefficient AI models guzzle energy. Then again, so do efficient ones--just for different reasons. The post DeepSeek Crashed Energy Stocks. Here's Why It Shouldn't Have. appeared first on SingularityHub.

Bioethanol made from fermented agricultural waste can be turned into zero-carbon hydrogen through a new process that uses much less energy than other sources

Seismic measurement of Los Angeles's depleted aquifers show a year of heavy precipitation hasn't been enough to refill them

Conservation projects in wealthy but nature-depleted countries can cause food and timber production to "leak" into poorer, biodiverse nations

In mice, the neurons that dictate the feeling of being full are also the ones that cause sugar cravings, potentially explaining why people are still able to eat sweets after a filling meal

A survey of workers who used generative AI to complete tasks found that they used critical thinking less when they trusted the AI to do the task accurately

From high-speed communication to quantum computing and sensing, the detection, transmission, and manipulation of light (photons) have transformed modern electronics. Central to these systems are photon detectors, which d...

Batteries built on quantum principles could offer fast charging and discharging - and the technology may just have moved a little closer to the real world

A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China has demonstrated the ability to electrically manipulate the spin filling sequence in a bilayer graphene (BLG) quantum dot (QD). This achievement, pub...

The U.S. is currently experiencing very high levels of seasonal influenza across the country. Here's why.

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its exoplanet companion are speeding through our galaxy at more than 1.2 million mph. However, it is u...

Ancient DNA from 348 individuals suggests that pale skin became the predominant characteristic of people living in Europe much later than assumed

Ripples, like ones produced by raindrops falling in a puddle, are also called capillary waves. Studied since antiquity, they have garnered considerable interest in modern science due to their ability to reveal informatio...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have made a breakthrough in the development of "life-like" synthetic materials which are able to move by themselves like worms.

What if time is not as fixed as we thought? Imagine that instead of flowing in one direction--from past to future--time could flow forward or backwards due to processes taking place at the quantum level. This is the thou...

In a step towards suspended animation of people, slices of mouse brains have shown near-normal activity after being stored at -150°C for up to a week

Astronomers have used a continent-sized radio telescope to find the largest black hole jet ever observed in the early universe.

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large Magellanic Cloud

DNA and RNA epigenetics, once thought to be separate, have now been found to work together to fine-tune gene expression.