It is known that exercising regularly reduces the risk of death, especially due to heart problems. But scientists have discovered that this risk reduction can differ among the sexes, and some people get greater benefits in less training time. So who has to exercise more to reduce your risk of death: women or men? It…
A cold morning last December, nine women woke up with the view of a glacier that was coming before them, shining from orange under the rising sun. These scientists had spent the life studying the crispfera, the frozen part of the earth, but most had never found it in person. The members of this group…
This view represents more than 50% of the Cosmos-Web survey: the deepest vision of the universe ever acquired with JWST. It gives us our deepest wide field vision of the universe ever taken, revealing how galaxies and the largest structures throughout cosmic history evolve.. (Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA and CSA, G. Gozaliasl, A. Koekemoer, M. Franco…
Add a piece to scorpion distribution puzzle: expand the tityus records (tityus) Confluens borelli, 1899 (Scorpions, Buthidae) in southern Brazil Summary New records for the species Confluents of Tityus (Tityus) Borelli, 1899, previously known by the states of Ceará, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Piauí and Tocantins in Brazil, are made for the state…
There is something so satisfying to surprise “Aha!” Moments: Those strange instances of information that they hit when you are struggling with a problem and reach a response suddenly, apparently without prior notice. But is all those moments satisfactory? Apparently not, it turns out that the flashes of inspiration that you feel when a solution…
NASA’s perseverance rover captured Deimos, the smallest of the two moons of Mars, shining in the sky prior to dawn on the red planet on March 1, 2025. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH) NASA’s perseverance rover captured this view prior to the dawn of the Mars de Mars hanging on a Martian view with little light. What…
Fighting fungi isn’t easy. Season two of the streaming series The Last of Us has arrived on Max (light spoilers ahead), bringing viewers back to a world where people combat zombies puppeteered by a mind-controlling fungus. Guns and flames help the characters survive onscreen. In the real world, fighting fungal infections is less action-packed, but…
The researchers at the University of Duke have developed a new promising analgesic that works through a completely different mechanism from opioids, which can offer millions of patients with chronic pain an alternative without the dangerous side effects of addiction and tolerance. The experimental medicine, called SBI-810, is directed to specific nerve receptors and spinal…
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. Today we’re taking you on another one of our Friday Fascination field trips with an auditory journey to Brookhaven National Laboratory. This Long Island facility boasts seven Nobel Prize–winning discoveries and more than 70 years of groundbreaking research into energy and the environment. Earlier…
For more than a decade, floating cranes have been lowering a strange load of about 3000 meters under the Mediterranean Sea. The objects are seen from another world: large and bright spheres full of electronics. They are called, in fact, a machine detectors. Km3netDesigned to find one of the most mysterious fundamental particles. The machine…