Ultrasound scanners, which image the inside of the human body, are a life-saving medical tool. Now researchers have shrunk the…
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Australia’s targets for cutting carbon emissions are among the weakest in developed nations, but a new government could accelerate the…
The Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a black hole showed a distinctive ring feature, but a reanalysis of their…
Unlike women, who are born with all the eggs they’ll ever have, men can continue to produce sperm throughout their…
The latest research from the labs of Penn scientists Paulo Arratia and Douglas Jerolmack was an answer to “a call…
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage-Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans A University of Massachusetts Amherst undergraduate student has contributed significant…
Part of Ukraine’s national seed bank, a repository of genetic diversity, has been destroyed by a blast in Kharkiv, and…
Simple swabs and vials play crucial roles in transporting blood, saliva and other fluids during medical lab tests. Samples on…
ITALY For the first time, scientists retrieved a human genome from volcanic ash–encrusted remains found in the ancient city Pompeii.…
Bottlenose dolphins appear to seek out certain corals and sponges that produce compounds with antibacterial or hormone-like properties Life 19…
For millennia, many animals and plants have coped with occasional climate changes by moving into new areas. But humans’ relatively…
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…