Russia will opt out of the International Space Station (ISS) program after 2024, the new chief of Russia’s federal space…
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Research by the University of Southampton shows future choices about trade, diet and climate change will be crucial in securing…
An ongoing megadrought, impacts from climate change and systematic overuse have created a deep management crisis on the Colorado River.…
Complicated physics problems are sometimes simpler than they appear, so physicists have made a machine learning model to search for…
This podcast was produced for the Lung Cancer Initiative at Johnson & Johnson by Scientific American Custom Media, a division…
While many artificial materials have advanced properties, they have a long way to go to combine the versatility and functionality…
For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China.…
Mutant wing disc suffering from proteotoxic stress. Cells in the Posterior compartment (on the right, Cyan-negative) have been manipulated to…
Fossils of a small, prickly dinosaur recently discovered in South America may represent an entire lineage of armored dinosaurs previously…
Flow chart of how the emulator developed by the research team works. Credit: Kavli IPMU, NAOJ By applying a machine-learning…
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient shoebox-sized device that is sometimes called the world’s oldest computer for its ability to…
To date most research on obesity has focused on studying those with a high body mass index (BMI), but a…
Besides their successful landing on the moon, the astronauts of Apollo 11 made another historic “first” in July 1969 when…
Earth’s current largest ocean, the Pacific, blankets more than 30% of the planet’s surface, stretching 12,000 miles (19,000 kilometers) at…
Theoretical physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have put Google’s artificial intelligence AlphaFold to the test and have found the…
Pfizer’s Paxlovid can prevent severe covid-19 in vulnerable people when taken as a five-day course at home, but the medicine…
By Rowan Hooper BE WARNED: George Monbiot will put you off your dinner. But that is a good thing –…
As our devices become smaller, faster, more energy efficient, and capable of holding larger amounts of data, spintronics may continue…
CLIMATEWIRE | A surprise climate and energy agreement between Sen. Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer promises a…
The dawn of dairy farming in Europe occurred thousands of years before most people evolved the ability to drink milk…
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more 18 May 2022 Josie Ford…
Vegetables are good for us, but are there any in particular that are good for diabetics? Diabetes is a complex…
Life as a single seaweed along a rocky coastline can be tough. Though there are plenty of potential partners out…
Highly energetic and difficult to detect, neutrinos travel billions of light years before reaching our planet. Although it is known…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new report has identified the 10 financial actors with the most influence on the fossil…
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The formation of the second layer in a heterolayer coordination nanosheet. Cobalt ions pass through the preexisting first layer (composed…
Women tend to live longer than men but typically have higher rates of illness. Now, new research from University of…
Here’s hoping that a meteor shower predicted by astronomers for almost a century will be seen this month, says Abigail…
Cancer Revolution, a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London, explores the advances behind cancer care, from this mask…