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The model domain and an illustration of the experimental design. The subset of independent medium-sized river basins based on the…
The Bald Mountain wildfire burns in the Grande Prairie Forest Area in Alberta, Canada on 12 May.Alamy Stock Photo Fire…
The supernova SN 2023ixf in the Pinwheel galaxy might be an opportunity for contacting other civilisationsPaul Macklin Astronomers are looking…
Harvestment can remove one of their own legs to escape a predatorErin Powell Losing a leg early in life makes…
Metformin is a diabetes drug that lowers blood sugar levels by improving how the body handles the hormone insulinDarren Lehane/Alamy…
Ahead of construction of a luxury hotel, archaeologists working at a site near the Vatican unearthed the ruins of a…
Name: West Indian Ocean coelacanth or African coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), known as ‘gombessa’ in the Comoros IslandsWhere it lives: Off…
Humanity has a long track record of making big changes with little forethought. From fossil fuels to AI, plastics to…
Credit: Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law and Policy Program COVID-19 has killed 7 million people worldwide so far. The novel…
Weird lights appear in the sky way more often than most people realize. Often, photos of these bizarre light shows…
Scripps Research scientists have shown that analyzing a certain type of immune cell in the blood can help identify people…
The beneficial root endophytic desert bacterium Pseudomonas argentinensis sp. SA190 enhances drought stress tolerance in Arabidopsis by priming target gene…
Snakes are quite quantum, mathematically speakingShutterstock / Matt Jeppson The motions of undulating animals and the states of quantum objects…
Ultra-processed foods — including industrially produced packaged snacks, fruit-flavored drinks, and hot dogs — have been linked to health issues…
Editor’s Note (8/18/23): This article was updated after posting to include new details of the situation on the ground, including…
Animals come in extreme shapes and sizes, from enormous elephants and colossal squids to miniature marmoset monkeys and teeny-weeny frogs.…
A bulbous mass that spontaneously appeared on a girl’s shoulder looked like a huge piece of red gummy candy that…
Most of Greenland was ice-free and green 416,000 years ago, according to a study. A mile-thick ice sheet in Greenland…
Rice University engineers can turn sunlight into hydrogen with record-breaking efficiency thanks to a device that combines next-generation halide perovskite…
There may be no ecosystem on Earth that seems less hospitable than hydrothermal vents. In the perpetual darkness, cold and…
[CLIP] Window rolling down Tulika Bose [tape]: Hey, what’s that? Protestor: It’s a brochure about all the help that’s available…
Couples are less likely to physically collide with others than friends areShutterstock/Shawn.ccf Couples are less likely to physically bump into…
In the sixth millennium B.C.E. the first farmers reached Western Europe. Who were these people, how did they live, and…
People standing on a glass floor at the Ostankino tower in Moscow, RussiaNosyrevy/iStockphoto/Getty Images A brain circuit that mediates a…
A brain plaque produced by the virus-like prion that causes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJDLABORATOIRE ESCOUROLLE/EURELIOS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY An experimental therapy…
[]The Vaonis Vespera is your all-in-one ticket to becoming an astrophotographer. Unlike ordinary telescopes, the Vespera does not have an…
Water is essential for life, but for astrophysicists, it represents something more. Researchers look at water in galaxies, its distribution…
Like an ice skater tucking their arms for an elegant spin, the planet Mars appears to be rotating slightly faster…
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Most Americans (69%)…