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A major French policy designed to make hotel prices more competitive online may not have worked as intended, but it did unlock cheaper deals for customers booking directly with hotels. The new study of European hotel markets finds that banning…
The Sun sprays an extremely fast stream of charged particles called the solar wind. At approximately 56,000 miles (90,000 kilometers) in front of the Earth toward the Sun, the solar wind collides with the Earth’s protective magnetic field, generating a…
‘Star Wars’ used to be the ultimate theatrical experience, but have years of Disney+ spin-offs dulled its multiplex appeal?
Food insecurity—or the uncertain access to sufficient, nutritious and safe foods—is a “wicked problem” affecting 1 in 3 people worldwide. Social supermarkets are slowly emerging in Australia as a different approach to food relief, offering affordable food access with social…
Strong relationships with school staff and a sense of belonging at school can protect teenagers’ mental well-being and help reduce absences, according to new findings from The University of Manchester’s #BeeWell program. The large-scale study published in the Journal of…
Plotting the optimal trajectory to visit multiple asteroids is a fiendishly difficult take on the Traveling Salesperson problem, but a new mathematical approach has succeeded in solving it.
On May 8, the Pentagon released its first tranche of “UFO files.” Space.com reached out to experts to make sense of this highly anticipated data drop.
Spiral galaxy NGC 3169 looks to be unraveling like a ball of cosmic
Black holes crashing together may be revealing clues about dark matter hidden across the universe. Physicists created a new model predicting how dark matter could subtly distort gravitational waves produced during black hole mergers. When they tested the method on…
Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory—the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibrating strings—could be more than just a mathematical fantasy. Instead of assuming strings existed from the start, researchers began with…