Leo Wilson 
A team of researchers has analyzed more than one million galaxies to explore the origin of the present-day cosmic structures, reports a recent study published in Physical Review D as an Editors’ Suggestion. Until today, precise observations and analyses of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and large-scale structure (LSS) have led to the establishment of … Read more
A child watching a robot provide accurate or inaccurate information. Credit: SUTD In this digital age, children are exposed to overwhelming amounts of information online, some of it unverified and increasingly generated by non-human sources, such as AI-driven language models. As children grow older, the ability to assess a source’s reliability is an important skill … Read more
Earlier today I set you these problems from the Mathigon puzzle advent calendar. Here they are again with solutions. 1. The knights are drawing in. In other words, how many knights can be placed on the board such that no knight is attacking another knight? A chess knight hops two squares horizontally/vertically and one to … Read more
Darren Woods, chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp., Brendan McDermid | Reuters Exxon Mobil said Wednesday its expects earnings to more than double through 2027 relative to 2019 as the energy giant moves forward with a slew of cost-cutting measures. Exxon said it’s on track to grow its earnings and cash flow … Read more
(NewsNation) — Key pieces of legislation that would publicly disclose what the government knows about UFOs are being debated, but a group of lawmakers say there is a pressure campaign by the intelligence community to block the bills. The House “UAP caucus” is fighting for full disclosure, and on Thursday, it brought to light its … Read more
Moment armed police storm Prague university after shooting captured in bodycam footage For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The gunman behind the Czech Republic’s worst-ever mass shooting has been identified as 24-year-old David Kozak. … Read more
Texas A&M University School of Public Health research on attitudes toward pet vaccination and how they may be linked with human vaccine hesitancy was the subject of a new study recently published in the journal Vaccine. Simon Haeder, Ph.D., associate professor, analyzed data from an August 2023 survey of more than 2,000 dog and more … Read more
Image of Jupiter taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft in February 2022. The dark spot is the shadow of the moon Ganymede. The colorful patterns are formed by clouds at different altitudes and made up mainly of ammonia ice, ammonium hydrosulfide and water. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS. Image processing by Thomas Thomopoulos For the first time, an instrument … Read more
In the past decade, Nigel Farage has traumatised the Conservative party and transformed it for the worse. His suggestion that he could return to politics after his stint on reality TV will trigger paroxysms of Tory despair. The prospect of the former Brexit party leader’s comeback only emphasises that Rishi Sunak is fighting for his political … Read more
Gas prices at a Shell gas station in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. crude declined 4% on Wednesday, closing at the lowest level since late June with retail gasoline prices hitting the lowest point since January just ahead of the holiday shopping and travel … Read more
