A striking photo capturing the “explosive creation of life” of spawning groupers beat more than 50,000 other photographs to win the grand prize at the 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The underwater image, called “Creation,” shows camouflage groupers (Epinephelus polyphekadion), a species vulnerable to extinction, emerging from a cloud of eggs and sperm […]
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Earth is reflecting less light as its climate continues to change, new research suggests. A beautiful phenomenon connects climate and brightness: clouds. Clouds are a notoriously complicated piece of the climate puzzle — scientists struggle to model how clouds will respond to climate change and how those responses in turn will shape the future climate. […]
Archaeologists in western Turkey have discovered the 1,800-year-old equivalent of “box seats” at a giant arena dating to the Roman Empire. During excavations at the ancient amphitheater of Pergamon, a large arena built to mirror Rome’s Colosseum, researchers discovered two seat blocks with carved inscriptions on the arena’s east side, according to a blog post […]
Everyone’s a fan of Albert Einstein, and for good reason: He invented at least four new fields of physics, spun a brand-new theory of gravity out of the fabric of his own imagination, and taught us the true nature of time and space. But who was Einstein a fan of? James Clerk Maxwell. Who? Oh, […]
The thinning of an icy “glue” that holds fractured ice together may drive ice shelf collapse in Antarctica, according to a new study. Ice shelves are massive stretches of ice that build up over many thousands of years, Live Science previously reported. But warming air and rising ocean temperatures have been driving ice shelves to […]
Copper-colored rings inside a man’s eyes proved key to diagnosing a rare disease, according to a new report. The 47-year-old man, who lives in India, went to the doctor after he experienced abdominal swelling for two months, according to the report, published Saturday (Sept. 25) in The New England Journal of Medicine. He had no […]
Identical twins originate from one egg cell that splits and gives rise to two embryos, but during development, one twin sometimes “vanishes,” leaving only one baby to be born. Now, a new study hints that your DNA may reveal whether you started out as an identical twin in the womb, even if your twin disappeared […]
A towering wave of orange dust filled the horizon and whooshed over a neighborhood in a recent video of a rare sandstorm in northwestern São Paulo, Brazil. As the choking cloud rushed past the camera, it transformed the city skyline into a scene that would have looked right at home in the arid wasteland of […]
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) captured a stunning new photo of the luminous green and red lights of an aurora hugging clouds swirling around Earth’s night side. “Another aurora but this one is special as it is so bright,” European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet wrote on Instagram and Twitter. “It is […]
