Gravitational waves confirm a black hole law predicted by Stephen Hawking
Despite their mysterious nature, black holes are thought to follow certain simple rules. Now, one of the most famous black hole laws, predicted by...
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Most planets on tilted orbits pass over the poles of their suns
Earth is on an orderly path around the sun, orbiting in nearly the same plane as our star’s equator. In 2008, however, astronomers began...
Mouse sperm thrived despite six years of exposure to space radiation
Sperm appears to be unfazed by long stints in outer space. In the longest biological experiment on the International Space Station yet, freeze-dried mouse...
Here’s what you should know about COVID-19 vaccine booster shots
Roughly six months ago, on December 11, the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in the United States....
Scientists have found the origins of a mysterious, deadly flood in India
On February 7, a massive flood rushed through a valley in India’s Himalayan Uttarakhand state, washing out two hydroelectric power plants and leaving at...
An arc of galaxies 3 billion light-years long may challenge cosmology
A giant arc of galaxies appears to stretch across more than 3 billion light-years in the distant universe. If the arc turns out to...
Cells cram DNA into the nucleus in two distinct ways
There are only so many ways to cram DNA into a cell’s nucleus, a study suggests. A cell’s complete genetic blueprint, or genome, is...
Physicists dream big with an idea for a particle collider on the moon
If you could peer into a particle physicist’s daydream, you might spy a vision of a giant lunar particle accelerator. Now, researchers have calculated...
New clues suggest people reached the Americas around 30,000 years ago
Humans may have inhabited what’s now southern Mexico surprisingly early, between 33,448 and 28,279 years ago, researchers say. If so, those people arrived more...
Solving mysteries of reproduction helped make parenthood possible for millions
In the beginning, no one really understood how babies were made. Thinkers puzzled for millennia about how life arose from one generation to the...
A choir of katydid ancestors filled the Jurassic rainforest with song 
FAO and the Global South: Advancing Agrifood Transformation through South-South and Triangular Cooperation 
DURBAN CONFERENCE, 25 YEARS ON – Paul Divakar Namala: “Solidarity and Resistance Work in the Long Run” 
Innocent-looking AI reasoning can make bad behavior harder to catch