Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A former senior Federal Reserve official was arrested on Friday after US prosecutors accused him of passing on economic secrets to China. John Harold Rogers, a senior adviser in the division of international finance at […]
You can knock a good telescope out, but you can’t keep it down. Using data from the now-destroyed Arecibo radio telescope, scientists from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute have unlocked the secrets of signals from “cosmic lighthouses” powered by dead stars. In particular, the team led by Sofia Sheikh from the SETI Institute […]
An enormous great white shark recently killed on a drumline in Queensland, Australia, will be used to help researchers discover more about the species. The gigantic female was only slightly smaller than the largest great white ever caught. The 18.4-foot-long (5.6 meters) female white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) was found dead by the Queensland Shark Control […]
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have peeked over the Milky Way’s back fence and found that there’s something strange about the stellar infants playing next door. While zooming in on the young star cluster NGC 602 in the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), the researchers spotted what may be the first evidence […]
Chicago’s Field Museum is home to over a dozen ancient Egyptian mummies but one in particular has perplexed researchers for years. Now, the mystery of Lady Chenet-aa’s burial procedure appears to be solved with the use of a CT scanner. Lady Chenet-aa lived roughly 3,000 years ago amid the 22nd Dynasty during Egypt’s Third Intermediate […]
The new species is similar in appearance to this Hypsibius sp. tardigrade, photographed using an electron microscope.Credit: Robert Schuster/Science Photo Library A newly described species of tardigrade is giving scientists insights into what makes these tiny eight-legged creatures so resistant to radiation. Tardigrades, also known as water bears, have long fascinated scientists with their ability […]
Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Roadarchaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand years ago. A team first noticed one of the lost cities in 2011 while hiking the grassy mountains of eastern Uzbekistan in search of untold history. […]
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A green-crowned brilliant hummingbird feeds on a cactus flower in Costa Rica. Jon G Fuller / Eye Ubiquitous / Universal Images Group via Getty Images Everyone loves to watch hummingbirds—tiny, brightly colored blurs that dart about, hovering at flowers and pugnaciously defending their ownership of a feeder. But to the scientists who study them, hummingbirds […]
