There is more melted rock under Yellowstone Caldera – a volcano in Wyoming – than was previously estimated, but that…
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Renewables are on track to generate more power than coal in the United States this year. But the question is…
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An AI has learned to deceive human opponents in the war-themed board game Stratego, which involves imperfect information and a…
When the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), the world’s governing body for soccer, proclaimed that the 2022 World Cup…
A young woman experienced spontaneous vomiting attacks during which she would sometimes retch more than 30 times a day and…
As physical links between the ground and the sky, plants play an important role in shaping Earth’s weather and climate.…
Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT have developed…
Rietveld refinement of deuterated carbonic acid at 1.85 GPa. Shown are the results of the simultaneous refinement against the shorter…
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every fall and…
A group of animal biologists and chemists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) at Nagoya University in central Japan,…
Construction has started on the largest telescope array on Earth. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will contain hundreds of radio…
Patient-derived parathyroid organoids (PTOs) could pave the way for future physiology studies and drug-screening applications, as shown in a study…
This year’s flu shots appear to be a “very good match” to the circulating influenza strains, health officials say. However,…
On average, students experience an estimated total of 102 alcohol-related consequences, such as blacking out, being hung over, or missing…
Daniel Kastinen’s thesis presents results that pave the way for future research and cross-disciplinary studies on meteors as well as…
An experimental HIV vaccine led to antibodies against the virus in 35 out of 36 volunteers, but whether this offers…
Researchers at the University of Amsterdam have developed a novel approach to infrared spectroscopy that enables simultaneous characterization of molecular…
Inside the leading edge of a crawling cell, intricate networks of rod-like actin filaments extend toward the cell membrane at…
Microplastic samples collected from the North Atlantic during the eXXpedition Round the World voyage. Credit: Sophie Dingwall The waters of…
This combo of images shows from the top, an 11th century Romanesque church partially exposed in a reservoir in Vilanova…
Colombian environmental engineer Germán Viasus Tibamoso, owner of Tierra Viva, holds a Hercules beetle in Tunja, Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 15,…
America was unprepared for the magnitude of the pandemic, which overwhelmed many counties and filled some hospitals to capacity. A…
From affectionate foxes to ruby-eyed frogs and flamboyant flamingos, the shortlist of photographs selected for the Wildlife Photographer of the…
Coal power: increasingly indefensible. Credit: Bilanol/Shutterstock The latest UN climate change summit (COP27) concluded, once again, with a tussle over…
Early in 2022, the Arctic experienced its strongest cyclone on record, with wind speeds reaching 62 mph (100 km/h). Although…
Science has largely neglected pregnancy’s effect on the brain, even though it involves dramatic surges in steroid hormones, which are…
It’s impossible to hide from a female mosquito — she will hunt down any member of the human species by…
Just like humans, wastewater treatment plants can get sick, due to viral attacks. Now, new research from Chalmers University of…
To make efficient hydrogen energy technology a reality—from generating hydrogen through electrolysis to next-generation chemical fuel cells—scientists need to know…