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The population of Union Island geckos plummeted due to growing demand from the illegal international pet trade, but conservationists working…
While the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) frequently…
Credit: Shutterstock/Sheryl Watson Each year, New Zealand imports about 2 million tons of palm kernel expeller (PKE), a by-product of…
The combination of global atmospheric warming and westerly winds shifting toward the poles will likely speed up the recession of…
From a distance, they looked like clouds of dust. Yet, the swarm of microrobots in author Michael Crichton’s bestseller “Prey”…
Short-term, heavy feeding by adult spotted lanternflies on young maple trees inhibits photosynthesis, potentially impairing the tree’s growth by up…
The bacterium Yersinia pestis causes frequent outbreaks that kill people, but a new vaccine based on cutting edge technology has…
Wearable fitness devices offer new insights into the relationship between physical activity and type 2 diabetes, according to a new…
Scientists once thought bigger brains made smarter animals. But birds fly in the face of that logic: with a brain…
By Grace Wade Alzheimer’s disease may be caused by the accumulation of protein plaques and tangles in the brainAndrew Brookes…
Superconductivity, fractional charges and magnetic vortices are just some of the weird quantum phenomena lurking in materials like graphene when…
The first global analysis of larval orientation studies found that millimeter-size fish babies consistently use external cues to find their…
Sometimes people develop ailments so mysterious they baffle doctors. These medical cases can make scientists question everything they thought they…
Structures made out of building blocks can shift their shape and autonomously self-organize to a new configuration. The physicists Saeed…
Reproductive health issues came to political center stage in 2022 with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization…
In a global study, researchers have identified that most reservoirs of rodent-borne diseases tend to live exclusively or occasionally in…
A star orbiting a supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy was ripped apart in a tidal…
Living waters—from rivers, to ancient aquifers to wetlands—are sacred and alive. Credit: Shutterstock When the British colonized Australia they assumed…
A new study has found that young Brits would be willing to change to a more sustainable diet, but a…
Credit: Shutterstock Greater conservation efforts are needed to protect Antarctic ecosystems, and the populations of up to 97% of land-based…
Technicians, engineers, postdocs, and scientists from Japan, Taiwan, and the U.S. have built the INTT detector, which consists of four…
Many Americans think of gout as a disease from a bygone era, akin to rickets or scurvy. The condition commonly…
The first demonstration of nuclear fusion; the deepest image of the universe ever captured; intentional asteroid diversions and the discovery…
Marine fishes live in highly saline environments with ionic concentrations that are vastly different from their blood plasma. Seawater contains…
Researchers have characterised prostate cancer cell dynamics at a single-cell resolution across the timespan of the disease — from its…
By Christa Lesté-Lasserre Artist’s reconstruction of Janavis finalidens, a very large marine bird from the late Cretaceous. In the background…
Researchers have used Google’s Sycamore quantum computer to simulate a simplified wormhole for the first time, and sent a piece…
Black holes are scary beasts — objects so massive that not even light can escape their clutches. In 2022, we learned…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is squeezing global oil supplies and inflation is jacking up prices at the pumps. Although petrol…