Dust from the Arabian Peninsula blew over the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea on 29 September 2011, potentially bringing…
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Down Under, season two of Zac Efron’s Down to Earth series, pulls off the trick he was after in the…
By 29 years old, Chris Daniel felt he had it all: a wife, two beautiful children and fulfillment of his…
Research from the lab of Fangqiong Ling at Washington University in St. Louis showed earlier this year that the amount…
It’s long been believed that Tyrannosaurus rex was a meat-eating maniac while long-necked dinosaurs serenely chomped away at leaves in…
A simple device made of plastic and rubber can be controlled using ripples in water to move around obstacles Technology…
How does gravity affect the passage of time? (Image credit: Yuichiro Chino via Getty Images)Einstein’s theory of general relativity upended…
Three chimpanzees have been shot dead and four remain on the loose after mysteriously escaping from their enclosure in Sweden’s…
Almost 200 species of bacteria, including one that can cause food poisoning, were found on microfibre particles from the Mediterranean…
A gel that has prevented almost all of 1 billion sperm getting past the cervix in sheep could become an…
In a study published recently in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine found that treating…
Viruses can inflame and disrupt connections between the olfactory system, which governs the sense of smell, and the part of…
The Jewish festival of Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah — is a celebration that happens around the middle of winter…
Researchers of the University of Amsterdam, together with colleagues at the University of Queensland and the Norwegian Institute for Water…
If you’re contemplating a complex problem, think of Occam’s razor, as simplicity is often best. (Image credit: Laurence Dutton via…
The practice of adding ‘leap seconds’ to official clocks to keep them in sync with Earth’s rotation will be put…
Numerous studies over more than two decades have demonstrated a robust relationship between climate and the dynamics of human diseases,…
A man suffering from pain and inflammation in his genitals had parasitic worms dancing inside his scrotum, and doctors caught…
“Many people don’t realize that there are math questions that we don’t know how to answer,” says mathematician Melanie Matchett…
A search of the ancient DNA of Neanderthals and Denisovans has revealed coding for extinct bacteria-killing proteins that we could…
Widespread protests against China’s zero-covid policy have led the country to ease some restrictions, but its failure to vaccinate older…
A single particle has no temperature. It has a certain energy or a certain speed — but it is not…
A week and a half before the midterm elections, a man broke into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s house, screaming “Where’s Nancy?”…
Buried nuts would quickly rot in the tropical rainforests of Hainan Island, so flying squirrels have taught themselves carpentry instead…
An analysis of a fossil has revealed a new species of dinosaur named Natovenator polydontus. It was semi-aquatic, looked a…
The first match of the men’s football World Cup kicked off in Qatar on 20 November, when the temperature was expected to be around 30…
by Louis Kusi Frimpong, Matthew Abunyewah, Seth Asare Okyere and Stephen Kofi Diko, The Conversation Property address has long been…
Squeegee starts with taxonomic classification using Kraken to determine a set of candidate contaminant species. Reads from the input data…
The Boston piano bar where Edward Nardell sings cabaret songs would typically be an ideal setting for airborne diseases to…
The sponge-like structure of the chip (in gray) was produced with salt crystals. In the lab, it is colonized by…