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Astronomers say that mysterious interstellar visitors like ‘Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS are the most common large bodies in the Milky Way — and our best chance to study other planetary systems.
In November 2016, India’s government abruptly invalidated its two highest-value banknotes, wiping out about 86% of the nation’s cash supply overnight. Known as the Great Indian Demonetization, the move was intended to curb corruption and encourage the adoption of digital…
A recent study by the University of Bremen and Europa-Universität Flensburg shows that poverty and financial struggles increase the risk of violence in couple relationships. Unemployment, financial discontent, and the presence of children intensify this risk.
Stochastic dynamical systems arise in many scientific fields, such as asset prices in financial markets, neural activity in the brain, or the spread of infectious diseases. Petar Jovanovski’s Ph.D. thesis focuses on these systems, which evolve in ways that are…
Research from the University of New Hampshire reports that in 2024 there were 5.7 million more childless women of prime child-bearing age than expected given prior patterns—a significant jump from 2.1 million in 2016 and 4.7 million in 2022. This…
Researchers continue to build on a body of evidence for a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded over Earth almost 13,000 years ago, which may have had a role in the disappearance of mammoths, mastodons and most of…
Even though they’re far from home, astronauts on the International Space Station still have normal routines, including getting regular haircuts.
In this quiz, you’ll match iconic sci-fi monsters to the books that birthed them—and the authors who dared to imagine the unimaginable.
With a modest amount of thrust and power, a new ion engine system could get rid of 1-ton pieces of space junk in less than 100 days. Here’s how it works.
Refugee and migrant men are bringing the cultural, gender and sexual norms from their countries of origin into their idea of sexual and reproductive health care in their countries of resettlement, researchers from the University of Adelaide have found.