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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…
When it comes to studying food and diet, it’s difficult to know what people are eating — let alone their…
Two randomized, placebo-controlled trials evaluating three Ebola vaccine administration strategies in adults and children found that all the regimens were…
Before Mars dried up, an asteroid slammed into one of its oceans and caused a colossal megatsunami, and now researchers…
[]This letter, written by Charles V in 1547, contains long sections of mysterious symbols used to encrypt top secret information.…
The Kimberella fossil. Credit: Dr Ilya Bobrovskiy/GFZ-Potsdam. Credit: Dr Ilya Bobrovskiy/GFZ-Potsdam The contents of the last meal consumed by the…
Social media platforms are where billions of people around the globe go to connect with others, get information and make…
Slate plaques from about 5000 years ago engraved with images of what look like owls may have been children’s artwork…
People with cluster headaches may be more than three times more likely to have other medical conditions such as heart…
There is a frozen soup of viruses, bacteria and fungal spores lurking beneath the frigid Arctic soil. Unlike the icy…
The effects of positive information and negative information on the proportion of recovered individuals for a certain transmission rate of…
Scientists at Scripps Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a clue to the molecular cause of Alzheimer’s…
The large number of fluorescent yellow dots in this foraminifer are incorporated nanoplastic particles. Credit: Marlena Joppien, Leibniz Centre for…
An unexpected river under the Antarctic ice sheet affects the flow and melting of ice, potentially accelerating ice loss as…
Archaeologists have discovered ancient mummies buried with stunning, lifelike portraits of the deceased. The mummies were interred in a cemetery…