Hundreds of hospitals along U.S. coastlines are in danger of flooding when hurricanes strike, new research warns. And as sea levels continue…
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Since 26 September, mysterious leaks have appeared in the underwater Nord Stream gas pipelines—which run from Russia to Germany—close to…
Strong alternating magnetic fields can be used to generate a new type of spin wave that was previously just theoretically…
A machine learning algorithm can assess how likely it is that a large earthquake will hit a region over the…
Stonehenge is one of the world’s most iconic, and mysterious, prehistoric monuments, and it has intrigued people for thousands of…
NASA’s asteroid smashing spacecraft completed its spectacular doomed attack on a distant asteroid last night, and we already have three…
Teenagers become more exploratory in their behaviors with age, becoming increasingly likely to visit new places over time, finds a…
Investing in one of the best foam rollers will change your pre- and post-workout routine for the better. Not only…
A multibillion-dollar slate of moderate climate-mitigation measures in the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act has been met so far with…
Just as waterfront mansions are status symbols for today’s rich and famous, ancient artificial islands in the British Isles known…
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), have used detailed weather models to…
An Airbus A319 plane of the German Company Lufthansa stands at Frankfurt Airport; Lufthansa was named in a new Harvard…
Camera lenses that ignore certain objects and only capture images they have been designed to recognise can be built in…
Cow’s milk is an important source of phosphorus, magnesium, zinc and selenium, but tests show these nutrients are lacking in…
Aedes aegyptii mosquito biting a person. Credit: CDC Mosquitoes that spread Zika, dengue and yellow fever are guided toward their…
The poles are warming several times faster than the global average, causing record smashing heatwaves that were reported earlier this…
Drugs like enzalutamide that inhibit male hormones from activating the androgen receptor have been used to treat advanced prostate cancer…
Nothing passes gas quite like a dying star.When a star roughly the size of the sun approaches the end of…
Diatoms are microscopic unicellular algae occurring in natural waters worldwide. During photosynthesis, they take up large quantities of carbon dioxide,…
As we age, our faces change, becoming slowly different from images used for facial recognition – so new photos may…
Witnessing a total solar eclipse is an unforgettable experience and may have been even more impressive throughout history before we…
Better satellite coverage of wildfires and improved climate models are giving scientists a more accurate view of smoke plumes as…
A side-by-side comparison of the three-dimensional model of the Cat’s Eye Nebula created by Clairmont and the Cat’s Eye Nebula…
NASA’s Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket ever built, is scheduled to launch for the first time on 29…
It’s a wild idea, but recent experiments suggest plants may have the ability to learn and make decisions. Are the…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Forensic dramas on TV make it seem easy to determine when fingerprints were left at the…
A research group has developed, and now successfully tested, a new method to measure fluid flow velocities. Sparse processing particle…
Children are more likely to develop asthma if their father was exposed to second-hand smoke when he was a child,…
We now know where on the moon NASA astronauts will set foot after more than 50 years’ absence. The agency…
How do we understand words? Scientists don’t fully understand what happens when a word pops into your brain. A research…