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More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend on plant-based diets. Plants are a low-calorie food source, so it can be challenging for animals to consume enough energy to meet their needs. Now climate change is reducing the nutritional value of some foods that plant eaters rely on. Human…
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This handout photo long exposure shot shows the flight of a flock of autonomous drones during an experiment near Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. | Photo Credit: AP Moving in a dense cloud, like throngs of people walking across a crowded public square, 100 drones maneuver through the night sky in Hungary’s capital, the…
(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) Until now, scientists believed that there was no binary star system near Sagittarius A*, which is a supermassive black hole located at the centre of our Milky Way. However, new…
Chinese astronauts for the Shenzhou-18 mission, from right, Ye Guangfu, Li Cong, and Li Guangsu wave as they attend a send-off ceremony for their manned space mission at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, April 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Will the next human to walk on the Moon speak English or…
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This artist’s illustration shows the wayward interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua (pronounced oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah) racing toward the outskirts of our solar system. The object, heated by the Sun (lower right), is venting gaseous material from its surface, as a comet would. | Photo Credit: Reuters In 2017, NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter our Solar…
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Many cultures associate twins with health and vitality, while others see them as a philosophical reminder of the duality of life and death, good and evil. | Photo Credit: Tesla Monson/The Conversation Twins have been rare in human history and for that reason can seem special. Many cultures associate twins with health and vitality, while others see them…
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A new machine-learning weather prediction model called GenCast can outperform the best traditional forecasting systems in at least some situations, according to a new paper. | Photo Credit: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Jacques Descloitres A new machine-learning weather prediction model called GenCast can outperform the best traditional forecasting systems in at least some situations, according…
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An illustration depicting a reconstruction of what the Firefly Sparkle galaxy looked like about 600 million years after the Big Bang if it was not stretched and distorted by a natural effect known as gravitational lensing. This concept is based on images and data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. | Photo Credit: Reuters NASA’s…
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Pacific Island nation leaders pose for a group photograph with U.S. President Joe Biden during a summit at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Pacific island nations at the centre of a strategic rivalry between the U.S. and China that brought infrastructure and funding hope President-elect Donald Trump…
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(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) When some object stands in the path of light, the object casts a shadow behind it. It’s the place the light can’t reach because of the object. The question is…