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Many people enjoy a glass of wine with dinner or a nightcap before bedtime, but how does alcohol affect sleep?Alcohol…
To read the news, the sanctity of everything from college application essays to graduate school tests to medical licensing exams…
Archaeologists in Italy are uncovering a 1,600-year-old burial ground containing the remains of infants, children and sacrificed puppies. Some of the…
An open-source intelligence project is using GPS satellites to track intercontinental ballistic missiles, such as the one tested by North…
Light pollution disrupts animals and has also been linked to human ailments. Bat scientist Johan Eklöf has some useful fixes…
Trapped ions are one of the leading systems to build quantum computers and other quantum technologies. To link multiple such…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It was a cool Thursday morning in Cape Canaveral as the nation’s first space shuttle was…
Around 12,000 years ago, the Neolithic revolution radically changed the economy, diet and structure of the first human societies in…
Overview of the analysis scope. A cradle-to-gate approach is used to assess the recycling technologies from the materials recovery facility…
La Cova des Pas, near the town of Ferreries, is a prehistoric mass burial site with the largest collection of…
This reprocessed colour view of Jupiter’s moon Europa was made from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late…
The threat of climate change permeates this visually stunning, memorable film about a couple living through drought in the Bolivian…
Killer whale mothers are sacrificing their own reproductive prospects to guarantee the future success of their sons.While it’s no surprise…
These images from a new illustrated book chart the long human love affair with orchids, the incredible family of flowering…
The incredible true story of Mars rover Opportunity turns into a moving, inspirational and downright personal tale of a little…
China’s population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades. The world’s population may have shot…
You won’t need to make a flour roux for your macaroni cheese if you cook your pasta in milk rather…
Mild brain damage may affect memory more than severe injuriesIn a small study, memory recall was better in people with…
Graphical abstract. Credit: Science of The Total Environment (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161512 Exposure to high doses of micro-sized polyethylene has adverse…
Since the Large Hadron Collider turned up nothing in its search for supersymmetry, physicists have turned their attention to the…
Fiction Future Imperfect What kind of world would humanity build with another chance to do it right? The Terraformersby Annalee…
The largest penguin to ever waddle on Earth, Kumimanu fordycei, steps onto a beach surrounded by another newly discovered species,…
Ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves could help reveal the secrets at the dawn of time, just moments after…
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a series of tombs dating back around 4,300 years at Saqqara, including a sarcophagus holding…
Foods high in sugar and salt can be unhealthy, but these additives are too delicious for many to give up.…
From Goldfinger to No Time to Die, James Bond has long showcased the latest tech advances. Might 007’s next adventure…
Electric vehicles are widely hailed as a key way to mitigate climate change through reduced emissions, but research on the…
Bits of the stars are all around us, and in us, too. About half of the abundance of elements heavier…
Nearly half the world’s mountain glaciers are expected to disappear by the end of this century, even if the world…