Finding out how acidic or alkaline your soil is means you can select the right plants for it, and maximise…
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An artist’s rendering of the JPSS-2 satellite, which will be renamed NOAA-21 once in orbit. Credit: NOAA NASA and the…
Silicon Valley media entrepreneurs might talk about free speech, but it is a fallacy that we should be able to…
Emily Schwing: This is Scientific American’s 60 Second Science. I’m Emily Schwing. Oil and water. Apples and oranges. Fire and…
Search intensity at the focal wind park during the 20-year study period between 2001 and 2021. (A) Daily numbers of…
CLIMATEWIRE | Europe’s plan to slash Russian fossil fuel imports and accelerate renewable energy production will test its ability to…
An exuberant and authoritative book puts wasps in their rightful place – at the centre of research, says Simon Ings…
The world has never had better medicine, more knowledgeable doctors or stronger data on disease. But these benefits are not…
The paleo diet is inspired by the eating habits of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, becoming a popular diet in recent years…
Studying mice, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a neural circuit and a neuropeptide…
Theoretical physics is full of weird and wonderful concepts: wormholes, quantum foam and multiverses, just to name a few. The…
Research supports what Darwin said in 1872 – dogs express emotions in a way recognisable to humans. Governments must do…
(a) Gestation lengths (days) and (b) proportion of sex-reversed male (XX male) Carinascincus ocellatus offspring for high-elevation (blue) and low-elevation…
MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove particles and salts to…
With an enormous sperm whale to feast on, Svalbard polar bears gain access to more than just the bear necessities…
On a sweltering June day in 2021, Nicole, whose real name has been changed to protect her privacy, walked into…
Map of Italy indicating the Modena province and close up of Modena alta pianura and Apenine foothills with names of…
Some scientists insist that the cause of all things exists at the most fundamental level, even in systems as complex…
Ornette Made In America, USA, 1985. Courtesy of Barbican Centre. Visit Journeys across Afro-futurism traces Black futures through the medium…
The history books say the infamous plague pandemic of the 14th century killed at least half of the population of…
The GO-Gly membrane (a); The ion rejection and enrichment properties of Go-Gly membrane for uranium and the main coexisting ions in…
The December 2014 North American Storm Complex was a powerful winter storm, referred to by some as California’s “Storm of…
Credit: Shutterstock Reproduction is the ultimate goal in life for most animals, but securing a mate is hard work. You…
As sessile organisms, plants have to continually adapt their growth and architecture to the ever-changing environment. To do so, plants…
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Humans 25 May 2022 Josie…
by Elizabeth Sinclair, Gary Kendrick, Jane Edgeloe and Martin Breed, The Conversation Credit: Rachel Austin, Author provided Next time you…
Plague may seem like an ancient disease, but the bacterium that causes it persists in rodents and fleas around the…
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is officially on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) after 2.5 years of delays. A…
Who were the Anglo-Saxons? Biological anthropologist Alice Roberts’s informed, sophisticated new take digs deep to re-examine their true origins Humans…
A study from the Missouri Ozarks highlights the importance of spatial aspects of biodiversity for healthy functioning of naturally occurring…