For millennia, many animals and plants have coped with occasional climate changes by moving into new areas. But humans’ relatively…
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Disposable gowns designed to deflect the splatter of bodily fluids, used in thousands of U.S. hospitals, have underperformed in recent…
A treatment process can turn old pieces of wood into a new super-strong material called “healed wood” Technology 19 May…
Scientists have pinpointed the moment in time our earliest ancestors evolved to be warm-blooded, and it happened much later and…
Adding erythropoietin to cooling therapy for term newborns with birth asphyxia has no benefit over cooling therapy alone, a study…
Editor’s note: This article was updated to include a comment from NYC Parks. All beaches on the Rockaway peninsula in Queens,…
NASA’s Artemis mission — which will ultimately return humans to the moon’s surface for the first time in 50 years,…
We have always been able to make Möbius strips out of paper, but now it is possible to make tiny…
Ukrainian number theorist Maryna Viazovska is among the four winners of the 2022 Fields Medals, one of the highest honours…
CLIMATEWIRE | As the smoke clears from the Supreme Court’s major climate ruling last week, legal experts and clean energy…
While blood clotting is important to prevent blood loss and for our immunity, coagulation also can cause health issues and…
The Colosseum was the largest amphitheater built in ancient Rome. The massive arena held thousands of spectators, who packed the…
About 40% of the world’s civilian-owned firearms are in the United States, a country that has had some 1.4 million…
A tiny flower that blossomed 30 million years ago still lingers today in near-perfect condition, preserved inside an airless amber…
Post-it Notes, Spanx, the iPhone, two-day Prime shipping. From unique gadgets to revolutionary business ideas, the most successful inventions have…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Urban agriculture is booming, but there’s often a hidden danger lurking in city soils: lead. A…
The State of California is banking on its forests to help reduce planet-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But that…
By Matthew Sparkes DeepMind’s Gato may or may not be a major breakthrough for AIDeepMind DeepMind has released what it…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Virtually all marine life—fish, turtles, sharks, whales and more—depend on the marine food web for survival.…
Imagine that you have just arrived on a planet in another solar system. Suddenly, five minutes after you landed, you…
By Michael Le Page Monkeypox virus particles captured via a coloured transmission electron micrographUK HEALTH SECURITY AGENCY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY There…
A year has passed since the flood disaster in the Eifel region, where the flood damaged or destroyed over 100…
Forests can produce more timber or store more carbon if they contain a mixture of tree species, according to an…
The strong force or strong nuclear force is one of the four fundamental forces of nature, along with gravity, electromagnetism…
The dried-up Sobradinho dam in Bahia state in December 2015. The finding comes from a study reported by scientists from…
When researchers used sound to levitate stem cells, they found that the cells formed into spheres. The method could be…
By Grace Wade A 5-year-old child watches as her mother receives a covid-19 vaccineShutterstock/CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE Covid-19 vaccines for children under…
An analysis of fossilised faeces found near Stonehenge suggests the people who built the monument ate raw cattle organs and…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Videos of shark attacks are popular—some of Discovery’s “Shark Week” videos of sharks attacking cages or…
Antarctic krill form the biggest biomass swarms on Earth. “You can even see them from space,” says Alicia Burns, a…