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Bird flu has been spreading in wild animals for years but it is now adapting to humansVuk Valcic//SOPA Images/LightRocket via…
Talks at the UN’s plastics conference in Busan are so far ‘going around in circles’, the WWF’s Eirik Lindebjerg told…
Black Friday week is in full swing and you can find plenty of great deals if you’re looking for your…
Plastic waste in IndonesiaPA Images / Alamy The world currently produces more than 50 million tonnes of “mismanaged” plastic waste…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Companies in China that self-regulate to reduce harmful social practices—an increasingly prevalent strategy—are more likely to…
We are rapidly approaching that time of year when your inbox starts to fill up with endless tempting emails offering…
A Martian meteorite nicknamed Black BeautyCarl B. Agee (University of New Mexico) Crystals inside a Martian meteorite hint that there…
Carbon credits are generated by activities that reduce or avoid planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions. New rules allowing wealthy polluting countries…
Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe. These hyper-dense celestial phenomena exert gravitational forces so powerful that…
Satellite image showing channels that formed part of an ancient fishery, and Mayan sites nearbyGoogle Earth Archaeologists have discovered a…
Researchers doing reconnaissance in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary CTWS where they discovered evidence of a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility.…
An advanced alien civilization may want to cruise around the galaxy, and the best way to do that is by…
The pasta nanofibresBeatrice Britton/Adam Clancy Scientists have produced the world’s thinnest spaghetti strands, 200 times slimmer than a human hair.…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study published in Nature Climate Change estimates that a 1-meter sea level rise by…
Xiaomi knows a thing or two about budget-friendly fitness trackers, as we can readily attest. We previously reviewed the Xiaomi…
There is a lot to keep track of when working in spaceNASA via Getty Image Astronauts aboard the International Space…
Use of synthetic biology. An alternative approach to assembling an ultimate genotype is the cloning of ultimate haplotypes into yeast…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Egmont National Park, New Zealand [-39.3019245, 174.0631103]What’s in the photo? Mount Taranaki volcano surrounded by the…
How did Earth’s inner core freeze solid?Rost9/Shutterstock A high concentration of carbon within Earth’s inner core could explain a long-standing…
Credit: TREEDEO.ST from Pexels How can scientists across climate science, medical and psychological topics foster the public’s trust in them…
A simple difference in the genetic code — two X chromosomes versus one X chromosome and one Y chromosome —…
Do you speak AI?Shutterstock/Ole.CNX Microsoft has created an artificial language that allows AI models to talk to each other faster…
Regional and demographic variation of human-flood dynamics across the CONUS coast. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01848-z A…
Seeds have helped plants evolve into a breathtaking variety of forms that fill our world with color and provide us…
Attempts to prevent Australian children from accessing social media are likely to fail, and could do more harm than good…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new route to materials with complex disordered magnetic properties at the quantum level has been…
Declassified spy images of Iraq have helped archaeologists find a historic Islamic battlefield.Upon analyzing the images, which were taken in…
Measuring the massive coralInigo San Felix/National Geographic Society In the south-west Pacific, off the coast of one of the tropical…
Observed galaxies within the Vela supercluster. Credit: Sambatriniaina H. A. Rajohnson, et al There is a region of the sky…