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Ancient Maya’s Pyramid of the Magician in Uxmal, MexicoKonstantin Kalishko/Alamy The Earth Transformed: An untold history Peter Frankopan (Bloomsbury Publishing) HOW…
This week Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy released a warning about the risks that social media presents to the mental…
CLIMATEWIRE | A huge, mineral-rich region of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone is attracting major international interest because…
Stephen Hawking’s most famous theory about black holes has just been given a sinister update — one that proclaims that…
Editor’s Note (5/26/23): The Food and Drug Administration has formally approved the antiviral Paxlovid as a treatment for COVID. This…
A massive seaweed blob packed with bacteria and plastic could be generating a “pathogen storm” in the middle of the…
Plastic waste has become an environmental challenge across the world. Negotiators charged with hammering out a global treaty to end…
Space is as vast as it is mysterious, so perhaps it’s not surprising that we’ve overlooked alien star system debris…
Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/Shutterstock POST-VIRAL syndromes received little medical attention for decades, until the covid-19 pandemic triggered tens of millions of…
As central Spain’s Tirez Lagoon dried up over 20 years, becoming entirely desiccated by 2015, its barren landscape began to…
Scientists studied stands of roble beech trees (Nothofagus obliqua) like these across a variety of climates in the Chilean Andes…
If you have a cat, you’ve probably seen it push in and out with its front paws, alternating between left…
Brian Bahder collects samples in Florida of the planthopper. Credit: UF/IFAS Palm trees infected with lethal bronzing disease emit signals…
Astronomers have discovered hundreds of strange, stringlike structures at the center of our galaxy, possibly tracing the violent path of…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Countries that offer tax breaks for corporate innovation realize greater economic growth than those with no…
A study led by researchers of the University of Liège and the CSIC — using observations from NASA’s TESS telescope…
After sunlight completes its eight-minute journey to Earth, white surfaces such as clouds send much of it bouncing right back…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When firms make their environmental policies public, they can get favorable media coverage only if their…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain After weeks of tense speculation over a looming financial catastrophe, should the U.S. default on its…
New research from Oregon Health & Science University is helping explain why at least five people have become HIV-free after…
Philosophers and legal scholars have explored significant aspects of the moral and legal status of robots, with some advocating for…
The first protein-based nano-computing agent that functions as a circuit has been created by Penn State researchers. The milestone puts…
Looking for one of the most flexible tablets around? This Best Buy Surface Pro 9 deal could be perfect for…
Looking back on our teenage years often elicits a grimace — it’s an awkward time, full of social faux pas,…
Human fingers don’t just sense what a surface feels like. They also tell us a lot about what’s underneath it:…
A family of mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park, RwandaSteph Baker/Fauna & Flora International Today is World Wildlife Day, an…
A sculpin—a prickly, bottom-dwelling fish species. Credit: Brooke Penaluna, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station Beneath the surface of…
A visualisation of HER2-positive breast cancer in miceCultura Creative RF / Alamy Stock Photo Artificial intelligence could develop unique antibody…
You could soon be playing virtual reality games on the bus, thanks to a headset that translates the twitching of…