3D model of major charred plant remains identified at the Jingshuidun site. (a) Layer 25, Chenopodiaceae caryopsis; (b)Layer 27, Solanaceae…
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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…
Astronomers have calculated the size of a ‘mega comet’ originating in the Oort Cloud, a cluster of icy bodies that…
Moonfall is a disaster movie that starts slow, but when it gets going it is packed with action, incredible special…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain University of Minnesota scientists are partnering with a global team to study the complex effects of…
A rare 1,200-year-old silver coin featuring Charlemagne — one of the only known portraits made of the emperor during his…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When presented with proposed natural gas export operations in the state, Oregonians are more likely to…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Puerto Ricans living in Florida, the largest swing state in the country, are mostly supportive of…
Hour after hour, year after year, Santiago Ramón y Cajal sat alone in his home laboratory, head bowed and back…
Yale scientists have identified a way to “supercharge” tumor-attacking T cells, a finding that may not only improve the effectiveness…
All routes to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degrees run through calculus classes. Each year, hundreds of thousands of…
Dogs’ urine and faeces bring large amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus into suburban nature reserves, which could be harmful to…
By Adam Vaughan Glacier in the Fitz Roy mountain range in Los Glaciares National Park, ArgentinaMaciej Bledowski / Alamy People…
This colorized image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory space telescope shows a powerful solar flare blasting from the sun…
While we sleep this spring, billions of birds will be flying through the night from their wintering grounds to their…
San Diego looked very different back in the Eocene epoch, from about 56 million to 34 million years ago. The…
Imagine you are a young Bar-tailed Godwit, a large, leggy shorebird with a long, probing bill hatched on the tundra…
The antiviral therapies remdesivir, molnupiravir, and the active ingredient in Pfizer’s Paxlovid pill (nirmatrelvir), remain effective in laboratory tests against…
One of the important functions of a river is to remove some of the pollution that can end up in…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to take this 360-degree panorama on March 23, 2022, the…
We are all products of our genes and environment, of nature and nurture. Thanks to research on parenting and child…
Simulated MIRI spectrum of a protoplanetary disk, as it might appear in a number of Cycle 1 science programs. The…
After COVID appeared, a huge number of virologists, biochemists, cell biologists and immunologists shifted their work to the coronavirus, and…
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, an information war is raging alongside the physical fighting. Russia’s recent attempts to…
Drawing of a scientist working with human skeletal remains and ancient DNA. Credit: Marija Stojkovic A combined study of genetics…
Sarah Vitak: This is Scientific American’s 60 Second Science. I’m Sarah Vitak. Early last year a TikTok of Tom Cruise…
Surface illustrations of the enzyme Mmp10, showing (top) the protein with the complete set of co-factors required for the enzymatic…