One in three children who suffer from bacterial meningitis live with permanent neurological disabilities due to the infection. Read The…
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Nearly half of the world’s migratory species are in decline, according to a new United Nations report released Monday. Read…
The reason for copper’s unique properties comes down to the configuration of its electrons. Read The Full Article Here
A material inspired by spider silk contracts to less than half of its length when exposed to water, and could…
Tiny particles such as ice crystals or ash particles tend to oscillate as they settle through the atmosphere. In their…
Is your dog’s tail-wagging a side effect of domestication, or did humans select for it? Read The Full Article Here
A technique for printing 3D structures from ice could be used to help make artificial veins and arteries. Read The…
With its emerald green waters and white sands, the small town of Mejillones in northern Chile looks deceptively like a…
Scientists have created a working nanoscale electomotor. The science team designed a turbine engineered from DNA that is powered by…
A new study shows the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, was more slender than…
“We’re still in a pandemic,” says a lead COVID official with the World Health Organization Read The Full Article Here
Lost in today’s misinformation fights is the recognition that modern conspiracy theories spring from excesses of state secrecy Read The…
Researchers at Stockholm University have for the first time been able to study the surface of iron and ruthenium catalysts…
In mice, neurons activated by stress cause the animals to wake up far more often during sleep – if the…
Diving bell spiders are also weird when it comes to sex, with males occasionally gobbling up females in reverse sexual…
Snow is one of the most contradictory cues we have for understanding climate change. As in many recent winters, the…
After decades of searching, mathematicians discovered a single shape that can cover a surface without forming repeating patterns, launching a…
One of the important breakthroughs that made it possible to program or reprogram cell fate more efficiently and with higher…
An 1867 flood in western Washington surpassed anything that the region has seen in the last century, new University of…
The controversy over a recent paper on human bisexual behavior emphasizes how important it is not to overinterpret genetic studies…
The past 12 months featured constant alarming news on the environment coupled to a political class still not heeding the…
Photographer Morup Namgail set out to capture an image no-one had ever taken before, in the hope of drawing attention…
A new way to measure the ocean oxygen level and its connections with carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere during…
The decisions we made this year about AI and climate change could determine the fate of billions of people. In…
NASA’s images show SLIM’s landing site both before and after the probe’s touchdown. Read The Full Article Here
Researchers led by Prof. Huang Qing from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy…
Tianeptine, an addictive drug at high doses, is being sold as a dietary supplement in gas stations and convenient stores.…
From ChatGPT to Gemini, this year was dominated by large language models and other AIs becoming everyday tools used by…
A team from the UPC and the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) has designed an efficient and stable…
Scientists working on biological design should focus on the idiosyncrasies of biological systems over optimization, according to new research. Read…