Messier 104, or the Sombrero galaxy. (Image credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURAImage Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)) The Sombrero galaxy looks like a work of science fiction in a stunning new image …
The basement feels wrong before you can say why. Something in the air, maybe, or the quality of the silence. Your mood dips, irritation creeping in from nowhere, and the music playing through the speakers sounds, suddenly, sadder than it …
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In the immediate aftermath of the attack on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, influencers, pundits, and random posters lit up social media platforms like X, Bluesky, and Instagram with conspiracy theories about the attack and the alleged …
There’s a new contender for the universe’s earliest first-generation stars. A bright clump seen about 450 million years after the Big Bang has the chemical hallmarks of first-generation stars — notably that it appears to have no elements heavier than …
April 24, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem—by asking AI A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may …
A new study suggests it’s not just gaining weight that affects our health over a lifetime, but also when we put on the pounds, with weight gain during early adulthood more strongly associated with mortality risk. Participants who first developed …
How does Simon Singh’s classic popular science book Fermat’s Last Theorem hold up today? Did you know the number 26 is rather special? It is the only number that sits directly between a square number (25 or 52) and a …
In June 2024, a group of Penn State meteorology and atmospheric science researchers set out on a road trip along the East Coast in a modified 2013 Toyota Sienna. The van was outfitted with a custom-built telescopic weather instrument extending …
A New Zealand parrot that’s missing the entire top half of its beak has developed a unique jousting technique to attain top social status, researchers report in a new study. The parrot, named Bruce, thrusts with his exposed lower beak …
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