A group of hikers watches a vortex ring form. (Image credit: Luca Cosma)Europe’s most active volcano, Mount Etna, is blowing…
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Dishes that are rich in flavor and aroma from combinations of spices such as earthy turmeric, warm cloves and sharp…
Correlations observed between tested physical parameters (I. temperature, II. pH, and III. salinity) and microbial FIB contamination measurements within sampled…
We all know how the lullaby goes, but now astrophysicists have finally caught up — reproducing the eerie thrumming sound…
Male harbour seals use complex vocalisations to try to attract femalesimageBROKER / Alamy Stock Photo Male harbour seal pups may…
For years, unrecycled plastic bottles have been dumped in landfills. Now, thanks to new research from UBC Okanagan, those bottles…
Around one third of people with heart disease suffer from sleep problems. In a paper published in the journal Science,…
In New York City in 2018, a cat reportedly fell from the window of a 32nd-floor apartment onto hard asphalt—and…
Researchers isolated the newly described nematode (Panagrolaimus kolymaensis) from permafrost in 2018, but its age and species remained unclear. (Image…
The comet 12P/Pons-Brook (12P) photographed on July 26, with the comet’s “horns” clearly visible. The image was captured by the…
Graphical abstract. Credit: Nucleic Acids Research (2023). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad573 A newly described type of chemistry in fungi is both surprisingly…
A large portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape — perhaps covered by trees and roaming woolly mammoths –…
A sixth person is in long-term remission from HIV following a stem cell transplant, scientists reported this week at a…
New work by scientists in the U.S. and China shows how a fertilized egg cell, or zygote, hits ‘reset’ so…
Early in her astronomy Ph.D. program, Aomawa Shields found herself without words. She had an undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts…
A melanistic leopard or “black panther” in Laikipia, Kenya – not the UKChris Brunskill/Getty Images Rumours of big cats, such…
The “Man in the Moon,” the dark area of dried lava that looks like a face smiling from the lunar…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study published in CABI Reviews suggests that the impact of climate change on animals…
Currently, it is impossible to accurately predict when and where an earthquake might strike. But scientists now believe that Global…
In 1852 a South African mathematician asked a seemingly simple question that triggered endless dispute, left a trail of overturned…
Archaeologists in Rome think they may have found the ruins of Nero’s theater, a first-century imperial performance space that was…
CLIMATEWIRE | It was the most intense rainfall in New York City history and caused the deaths of 11 people trapped…
The white dwarf on the right is stealing matter from a neighbouring star. It will eventually explode as a type…
IMAGINE a medical device that could treat an enormous range of our ills, both big and small. A gadget that…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Toy company Mattel has been criticized for “stealth marketing” after giving away free Barbie and Ken…
One of the central challenges for synthetic chemists is to impose control over free radicals. Highly reactive molecules with an…
Svalbard. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Tourists acting as citizen scientists have helped a research team detect microplastics on remote Arctic…
The Eagle quantum processorIBM IBM’s Eagle quantum computer completed a calculation that stumped the conventional supercomputer it was pitted against.…
The edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula.NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO A…
WANDERING around an achingly cool San Francisco coffee shop a few years ago, I was fascinated to see huge, open-topped…