Lakes across the world have seen an increase in algal blooms that strangle freshwater ecosystems, according to an analysis of…
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Infants whose mothers participated in a mindfulness-based program during pregnancy had healthier stress responses at 6 months old, a new…
Climate change poses a potentially devastating economic threat to low-income cattle farmers in poor countries due to increasing heat stress…
Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as those sung in English even though there are significant cultural differences…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Across languages and cultures, words that help direct caregivers’ attention are likely to be among the…
Great white sharks, (Carcharodon carcharias), also known as white sharks, are the largest predatory fish in the world. They belong…
Turkeys stand in a barn on turkey farm near Manson, Iowa on Aug. 10, 2015. When cases of bird flu…
For many years, scientists have sought to understand what happens when our genes are flipped to the “on” position. Now,…
Ice cores allow climate researchers to look 800,000 years back in time: atmospheric carbon acts as fertilizer, increasing biological production.…
Two populations of mule deer featured in “Ungulate Migrations of the Western United States: Volume 2” perform transboundary migrations between…
Sarah Vitak: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Sarah Vitak. Charles Darwin’s famous trip on the HMS Beagle is…
When neuroscientist Jakob Seidlitz took his 15-month-old son to the paediatrician for a check-up last week, he left feeling unsatisfied.…
With the help of special telescopes, researchers have observed a cosmic particle accelerator as never before. Observations made with the…
Companies in the software industry, where novel ideas are prized, use linguistic tactics to develop new labels for their innovations…
The “rolling stop” feature introduced by Tesla in October meant that cars rolled past stop signs instead of stopping, as…
The Central American country’s experimental adoption of bitcoin has been beset by problems including identity theft and missing funds. Now…
The European Union has an idea to help save the planet from the future ravages of climate change: Make a…
Rogue black holes are usually detected by the matter falling into them, but the first truly isolated black hole has…
A pioneering astronaut mission is on its way to the International Space Station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Ax-1, a…
A space rock the size of a skyscraper that scientists deemed “potentially hazardous” sailed harmlessly past Earth today (April 1)…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Key findings of a new Cornell University Worker Institute report mapping the low wages and poor…
Green consumer habits may not be impacted by gamification practices, but people who purchased environmentally friendly products in the past…
Announcer 1: It is the latest fight over transgender rights. Announcer 2: Arkansas passing a bill blocking gender affirming care…
The new variant has been found mainly in the Netherlands and it is more infectious, but it can be detected…
Images captured by satellite have been run through an algorithm to automatically detect the biggest plumes of methane streaming from…
3D model of major charred plant remains identified at the Jingshuidun site. (a) Layer 25, Chenopodiaceae caryopsis; (b)Layer 27, Solanaceae…
Latency is the technical word that describes how long it takes data to get from one place to another. You…
The Goldilocks zone gets its name from the fairy tale, “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”. Goldilocks is a fussy little…
Close interactions with infectious disease set both University of California, Santa Cruz graduate student Ana Nuñez Castrejon and Associate Professor…
After quitting meat for ethical, health or environmental reasons, some pet owners want their pets to join them in a…