Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study shows that current trends in environmental degradation will lead to large economic losses…
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[Music] Lee Billings: This is Cosmos, Quickly. I am Lee Billings. Gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of space time first predicted by…
With the rise of extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent in our warming climate, accurate predictions are becoming…
Plutonium-239 rained down from the atmosphere and settled in sediments across the planet. (Image credit: Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)Nuclear weapons testing…
In most adults, learning and thinking plateau and then begin to decline after age 30 or 40. People start to…
Jupiter (left) and Saturn (right) seen in September 2022 in Alberta, CanadaAlan Dyer/VWPics/Getty Images Set your alarm for the early…
Rubbing newborns delivered via C-section with a gauze placed in their mothers’ vaginas may improve their developmentAntonio Hugo/Getty Images Transferring…
If you have been in the path of the smoke from wildfires in Canada this month—or if you’ve been caught…
A team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that…
Repeatedly heading a soccer ball has been previously associated with negative long-term brain health for professional players. However, in a…
An artist’s impression of muons, created by cosmic rays, showering EarthHiroyuki K.M. Tanaka/University of Tokyo A navigation system based on…
A tayra (Eira barbara), a generalist species, in Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park. Credit: Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network By…
Summary of the study region. The yellow stars are the relocated epicenters of the MW 7.9 and MW 7.6 earthquakes.…
Of all the ways to discuss science, debating debunked antivaccine activists, historically speaking, is an awful idea. Having one moderated…
The river Itchen is a chalk stream in Hampshire, UKTommy Lee Walker/Shutterstock A plan to restore chalk streams in England,…
The “synthetic embryos” have been created from stem cells grown in the labAndrew Vodolazhskyi/Alamy A team at the University of…
Humans have long been successful predators, thanks to our advanced cognition, tools and technology. And now a new study examining…
A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently shown that nearly any material can be turned…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Making history with 42 digits, scientists at Paderborn University and KU Leuven have unlocked a decades-old…
Credit: Chemnitz University of Technology Prof. Dr. Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer, Chair of English and Digital Linguistics at Chemnitz University of Technology,…
Beryllium is toxic and hard to work withBjorn Wylezich/Alamy A metallic bond between two beryllium atoms has been forged for…
CLIMATEWIRE | Mountaintops across the Northern Hemisphere are transforming as rainy downpours replace snowfall, raising the risk of floods and landslides.…
Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in southeastern Oregon, where the 18,000-year-old teeth and tools were unearthed. (Image credit: Greg Shine/BLM; (CC BY…
An inclusive review of decades’ worth of data reveals new insight into menopause and aging in women of color, suggesting…
Estimated impacts of anthropogenic stresses on global blue food production. a, Impacts on quantity. b, Impacts on safety. Results were…
Exploration of a transcription factor related to IAA-inducible gene expression in K. nitens. (a) Comparison of the abundance of all…
For the first time, scientists have seen neutrinos originating from the central disk of the Milky Way. Neutrinos are tiny,…
Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2023). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c01531 Juan Luis Delgado, Ikerbasque researcher at POLYMAT and the University…
No, the artificial sweetener aspartame is not a possible carcinogen to humans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said…
The best fitness tech rarely comes cheap, so should you buy one of the best Garmin watches this Amazon Prime…