When you buy from our articles through links, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft silhouetted against Jupiter as it passes over the gas giant’s icy moon Europa (bottom center). | Credit: NASA A metal plate the size of a standard sheet of printer paper … Read more
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question that you would like an expert to answer, please send it to Curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Is a zombie apocalypse caused by fungi, like the Cordyceps from ‘The Last of Us’, something that could realistically happen? – Jupiter, age 15, Ithaca, New York … Read more
Psychologists know that childhood trauma, or the experience of harmful or adverse events, can have lasting effects on people’s health and well-being well into adulthood. But while the consequences of early adversity in humans have been well researched, humans are not the only ones who can experience adversity. If you have a rescue dog, you’ve … Read more
When you buy from our articles through links, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Seven Earth-like planets orbit the star Trappist-1, but can any of them host planets? | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The latest hunt for alien signals in the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system has tested a new strategy that will allow astronomers to … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. For nearly two centuries, scientists have tried to solve an enduring mystery about a giant centipede-like animal called Arthropleura, which used its many legs to roam the Earth more than 300 million years ago. Now … Read more
Fusion energy has the potential to be an effective clean energy source because its reactions generate incredibly large amounts of energy. Fusion reactors are intended to reproduce on Earth what happens in the core of the sun, where very light elements fuse and release energy. Engineers can harness this energy to heat water and generate … Read more
The fall season is in full swing, but folks in the Southwest can be forgiven for not noticing. Parts of Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico are in the grip of an extraordinary heat wave, with unseasonably warm temperatures 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit above average extending into mid-October. The heat is expected to finally break … Read more
Halloween is a time to embrace all things disgusting, from bloody slasher films to haunted houses full of fake guts and gore. But the appeal to things that exhaust us goes beyond this annual holiday. Flick through the TV channels and you’ll come across ‘adventure eating’ programmes, in which presenters and participants are presented with … Read more
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, small biological molecules that tell the cells in your body what kind of cell they should be by turning certain genes on and off. The Conversation Weekly podcast spoke with Victor Ambros from his lab … Read more
Nearly five days before Hurricane Milton struck Florida, National Hurricane Center forecasters predicted its track within just 12 miles (19 kilometers) of where the storm later made landfall. Predictions for Hurricane Helene were also accurate: The National Weather Service warned long before that storm hit the coast that “record flooding” in North Carolina, some 400 … Read more