A new study of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier has revealed that it appears to be melting even faster than previous estimates indicated, with the face of the ice sheet now retreating at a rate twice as fast as previously recorded. Nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier” by the researchers that study it, the Thwaites Glacier is aread more
Do plants possess a consciousness? – A philosophy of science professor at the University of Murcia, in Spain, is trying to devise new ways to answer this seemingly unanswerable question. Although they lack something like the brain and nervous system that animals possess, many plant species physically react to theirread more
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first direct image of a planet in a distant star system nearly 400 light years away, producing an image with a clarity that exceeds JWST’s designers’ expectations by about ten times. HIP 65426 b is a Jupiter-sized gas planet 385 light years awayread more
A study of unrelated individuals that otherwise look very much alike has discovered that the uncanny physical resemblance shared between some individuals runs much deeper than their looks, with many doppelgangers sharing similar behaviors, habits and even matching heights and weights. The study made use of three different facial recognition algorithms toread more