Communities exposed to petroleum contaminants have high concentrations of mercury, arsenic and cadmium. Credit: Eliseo Hualinga, Feconacor Indigenous communities living…
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In bats, and many other mammals, females are not smaller than malesGETTY IMAGES Male mammals have long been said to…
This artist’s impression shows a distant gas cloud that contains different chemical elements, illustrated here with schematic representations of various…
Jupiter’s brief but glorious reign as the planet with the most moons in our solar system came crashing down this…
On 11 September 2022, a diamond mine waste storage facility, known as a tailings dam, failed in the town of…
A flood in Somerset, UK, in January 2023Matt Cardy/Getty Images The amount of damage caused by floods each year in…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Corporal punishment should be prohibited nationally and supported by a public education campaign and greater access…
On rainy nights on the verdantcoastal plains outside Rio de Janeiro, groups of tree frogs sometimes gather around the pearly…
Who can assess and diagnose cardiac function best after reading an echocardiogram: artificial intelligence (AI) or a sonographer? According to…
By observing the night sky, medieval monks unwittingly recorded some of history’s largest volcanic eruptions. An international team of researchers,…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A trio of psychologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of York and Duke…
In a twist on the question, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?,” scientists have long faced a similar…
Science in meter and verse Credit: Michael Warren/Getty ImagesAdvertisement Edited by Dava Sobel When two rivers meet,they sometimes hesitate to…
Ice sheets can retreat up to 600 metres a day during periods of climate warming, 20 times faster than the…
A warmer Arctic has been linked to extreme winter weather in the midlatitude regions. But, it is not clear how…
Cornell University researchers have found people have more efficient conversations, use more positive language and perceive each other more positively…
The Isthmus of Panama connected North and South America sometime between 23 million and 3 million years ago. (Image credit:…
Gemini time-series photometry of J0049−2525 obtained over two consecutive nights. Credit: Kilic et al, 2023 Astronomers have conducted photometric observations…
Solar-powered balloons launched into the Earth’s stratosphere have recorded a series of mysterious rumblings, and scientists can’t pinpoint their origins.The…
People on high incomes can still get happier with more moneyColin Anderson/Blend Images LLC/Getty Images For most people in the…
Update: The Terran 1 rocket was not launched on 8 March due to an issue involving the temperature of the…
When we consume alcohol, our liver produces more of the hormone FGF21, which helps to protect the organ from alcohol-induced…
ON A regular basis, I wonder why we have a cat. This thought was most recently prompted by Peggy jumping…
A recent study, published in Neuropsychopharmacology, conducted by researchers from the University of Helsinki and the University of Eastern Finland,…
Migration choices and contributions across rounds at each lab. Credit: Lo Iacono et al A multi-lab replication of a 2006…
Credit: Sonja Vasiljeva, Broad Communications Researchers have used a highly precise genome-editing technology called base editing to make hundreds of…
Typical septoria symptoms on wheat leaf produced by the ascomycete fungus Zymoseptoria tritici. Credit: Dr. Janine Haueisen Worldwide, growers lose…
The images in the bottom row were recreated from the brain scans of someone looking at those in the top…
Noah’s flood is one of the most recognized Bible stories. According to the Old Testament, “In the six hundredth year…
Life for all animals, including humans, would be simpler if diseases had a sign saying “beware!” with flashing lights and…