The UK experienced a record-breaking heatwave in July 2022DAMIEN MEYER/AFP via Getty Images We should brace for worse-than-expected heatwaves in…
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A teen in British Columbia recently became critically ill after becoming infected with H5N1. H5N1 is…
Poppy seeds are known to cause false positives on drug tests; in one case, a new mother’s baby was taken…
Someone’s kidneys could be a decade older, biologically, than their brainChristian Kitzmuller/Alamy Our organs appear to age at different rates,…
Credit: Edvin Richardson from Pexels Months after an alarmist review from NASA’s Office of the Inspector General, hundreds of construction…
There’s nothing worse than a great machine that runs out of battery too quickly, but that’s not going to be…
A robot inspired by Cheerios releasing alcohol fuel with a fluorescent dyeJackson K. Wilt et al. 2024 The same phenomena…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It’s no secret: when we savor a delicious piece of fish or a platter of seafood,…
The equator is the imaginary line that horizontally encircles the middle of Earth, stretching approximately 24,900 miles (40,000 kilometers) long.…
Bird flu has been spreading in wild animals for years but it is now adapting to humansVuk Valcic//SOPA Images/LightRocket via…
Talks at the UN’s plastics conference in Busan are so far ‘going around in circles’, the WWF’s Eirik Lindebjerg told…
Black Friday week is in full swing and you can find plenty of great deals if you’re looking for your…
Plastic waste in IndonesiaPA Images / Alamy The world currently produces more than 50 million tonnes of “mismanaged” plastic waste…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Companies in China that self-regulate to reduce harmful social practices—an increasingly prevalent strategy—are more likely to…
We are rapidly approaching that time of year when your inbox starts to fill up with endless tempting emails offering…
A Martian meteorite nicknamed Black BeautyCarl B. Agee (University of New Mexico) Crystals inside a Martian meteorite hint that there…
Carbon credits are generated by activities that reduce or avoid planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions. New rules allowing wealthy polluting countries…
Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe. These hyper-dense celestial phenomena exert gravitational forces so powerful that…
Satellite image showing channels that formed part of an ancient fishery, and Mayan sites nearbyGoogle Earth Archaeologists have discovered a…
Researchers doing reconnaissance in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary CTWS where they discovered evidence of a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility.…
An advanced alien civilization may want to cruise around the galaxy, and the best way to do that is by…
The pasta nanofibresBeatrice Britton/Adam Clancy Scientists have produced the world’s thinnest spaghetti strands, 200 times slimmer than a human hair.…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study published in Nature Climate Change estimates that a 1-meter sea level rise by…
Xiaomi knows a thing or two about budget-friendly fitness trackers, as we can readily attest. We previously reviewed the Xiaomi…
There is a lot to keep track of when working in spaceNASA via Getty Image Astronauts aboard the International Space…
Use of synthetic biology. An alternative approach to assembling an ultimate genotype is the cloning of ultimate haplotypes into yeast…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Egmont National Park, New Zealand [-39.3019245, 174.0631103]What’s in the photo? Mount Taranaki volcano surrounded by the…
How did Earth’s inner core freeze solid?Rost9/Shutterstock A high concentration of carbon within Earth’s inner core could explain a long-standing…
Credit: TREEDEO.ST from Pexels How can scientists across climate science, medical and psychological topics foster the public’s trust in them…
A simple difference in the genetic code — two X chromosomes versus one X chromosome and one Y chromosome —…