Not only humans are social, ants are too. Group members are taking care of sick ones by providing collective hygiene…
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Physical differences in the brains of people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and those who don’t have the condition could…
An artist’s impression of electricity in a Martian dust storm. Credit: NASA Mars is infamous for its intense dust storms,…
Illinois chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Xiao Su and colleagues found a new approach for converting nitrate-contaminated waters—a known carcinogen…
Researchers have theorised a new mechanism to generate high-energy ‘quantum light’, which could be used to investigate new properties of…
A mysterious sheaf of coded letters tucked away in the National Library of France (BnF) has turned out to be…
More than 1.2 million years ago, an unknown group of human relatives may have created sharp hand axes from volcanic…
A 2,000-year-old “lost book” discussing the dynasties that succeeded Alexander the Great may finally be deciphered nearly two millennia after…
The brain’s cerebral cortex produces perception based on the sensory information it’s fed through a region called the thalamus. “How…
Jupiter was already the king of the solar system, and new discoveries give the massive planet another way to reign…
Seasonal infections are set to spike, while the cost-of-living crisis is also expected to affect some children’s mental and physical…
The severity of immune-mediated intestinal diseases such as graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) or inflammatory bowel diseases is known to be associated…
The Fox Point Hurricane Barrier following completion in March 1966 (Providence, Rhode Island). Credit: New England Division of the U.S.…
An H3 rocket sits on the launch pad at Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima, southern Japan Friday, Feb. 17, 2023.…
Oil is Ecuador’s top export — generating some $13 billion per year. Lago Agrio is where it began in February…
Male great bustards seek out two toxic plants during the birds’ breeding season, and extracts from these plants have been…
The pandemic is not over, despite some proclamations to the contrary. The good news is that we now have some…
Deep in Antarctica’s frigid interior, fluffy, air-filled snow accumulates layer by layer, compacting into slabs of ice over millennia. Paleoclimatologists…
Researchers have cracked the code used to write a collection of “lost” letters once owned by Mary, Queen of Scots.Penned…
In a study publishing in the journal Cell Stem Cell on February 2, researchers show that brain organoids — clumps…
Greenpeace called for action to finalize a high-seas treaty at the United Nations in August, projecting ‘Every Human Depends on…
According to the International Potato Center, based in Peru, there are more than 4,000 varieties of edible potato, most of…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The share of e-commerce retail sales in the United States has grown steadily over the last…
Predicted probabilities of a gray wolf pack (a) persisting and (b) reproducing in five US national parks and preserves based…
“Exascale” sounds like a science-fiction term, but it has a simple and very nonfictional definition: while a human brain can…
Impressionist artists like Claude Monet and Joseph Mallord William (J. M. W.) Turner are famous for their hazy, dreamlike paintings.…
The chromosome may contain regions that promote their DNA’s spread by killing sperm that carry Y chromosomes. However, Y chromosomes…
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated white…
The World Health Organization has changed its stance on “kangaroo care” for premature or small newborns who are clinically unstable,…
Several years ago, I was at a pre-season football practice at a high school where I was working with the…