In particle physics, data long outlives the detectors that generate it. A decade ago the 4,100-metric-ton Collider Detector at Fermilab…
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More than 30 per cent of deaths in England among over-30s from Bangladeshi, Black African or Pakistani ethnic groups since…
DNA has a knotty problem. Thousands of times longer than the cell that contains it, this intricate strand of As,…
Tomorrow’s weather may be cloudy with a chance of electrons, thanks to a newly detected phenomenon in Earth’s magnetic shield.Described…
Over the past two decades, the Arctic has lost about one-third of its winter sea ice volume, largely due to…
Some patients with severe COVID-19 who are treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) may experience significant lung recovery and return…
Last month, while most of the world focused on the war in Ukraine and worried that a beleaguered Russian leadership…
Even people who have had COVID-19 receive long-lasting benefits from a full course of vaccination, according to three recent studies.…
Researchers have uncovered new details about the lives and violent deaths of the “bodies in the bog” — a group…
Cancer patients who have compromised immune systems due to their disease or therapy remain at high risk for COVID-19 infection.…
Lakes across the world have seen an increase in algal blooms that strangle freshwater ecosystems, according to an analysis of…
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)…