A brown widow spiderShutterstock/Vinicius R. Souza In parts of the southern US, black widows are being supplanted by their more…
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Credit: Kumamoto University Two-dimensional monolayer nanosheets made from layered perovskite have many desirable properties. However, it has been difficult to…
In the autumn of 1802, some 25 years before his death, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a letter to his brothers.…
For short-lived spring wildflowers such as wood anemone (Anemone quinquefolia) and Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria), timing is everything. These fleeting…
Scientists who study happiness know that being kind to others can improve well-being. Acts as simple as buying a cup…
Antarctic petrels returned to sea rather than breeding in stormy conditions last yearAGAMI Photo Agency/Alamy Stock Photo Extreme storms in…
Argentinian-born mathematician Luis Caffarelli has won the 2023 Abel Prize — one of the most coveted awards in mathematics —…
Over four percent of deaths in cities during the summer months are due to urban heat islands, and one third…
Look carefully! Mathematicians have invented a new 13-sided shape that can be tiled infinitely without ever repeating a pattern. They…
The world’s oldest surviving Scottish tartan is over 400 years old and, though now faded, once sported green, brown, red…
The United Nations water conference started this week. Co-hosted by the Netherlands and Tajikistan, the three-day event will take place…
[]A stunning brick tomb thought to be more than 800 years old has been discovered in northern China by workers…
Screenshots of snack drawer restock videos on TikTok. Credit: TikTok Neatly aligned glass spice jars tagged with printed white labels.…
Illustration of the early ichthyopterygian whose remains were found in SpitsbergenEsther van Hulsen The oldest fossils of an ichthyosaur ever…
Mathematics is the language that lets us describe the universe. Galileo Galilei was already convinced of that in the 16th…
CLIMATEWIRE | The president of one of the world’s largest insurance brokers warned Wednesday that climate change is destabilizing the insurance…
China’s stricter clean heating policies have improved air quality in northern China, particularly in Beijing and surrounding cities- potentially reducing…
Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is currently not plausible, as is shown in a new study released by…
A micrograph of oestrogen-receptor positive breast cancer tissue, showing slowly dividing cancer cells (red) that resist treatment, the cells’ nuclei…
New UC Riverside research suggests nitrogen released by gas-powered machines causes dry soil to let go of carbon and release…
A front page story in The New York Times on July 2, 1971, with details about the conflict in Congress…
Every degree of warming translates to 7% more water vapour in the air, but rainfall can increase by 20% or…
People who are discharged after a hospitalization involving sepsis were at greater risk of cardiovascular events, rehospitalization for any cause…
Advances in IoT technology have made it possible for us to easily and continually obtain large amounts of diverse data.…
JONATHAN OPPENHEIM likes the occasional flutter, but the object of his interest is a little more rarefied than horse racing…
Graphical abstract. Credit: Biological Conservation (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109853 A group of researchers supported by FAPESP analyzed 192 news reports published…
A new antimicrobial suture material that glows in medical imaging could provide a promising alternative for mesh implants and internal…
Five years ago, NASA’s infrared Spitzer Space Telescope helped discover a family of seven rocky exoplanets orbiting the same star,…
Millions of rocks orbit within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but only some fly relatively close to Earth. NASA…
A chip developed in the study. Credit: Grigorii Likhachev (EPFL) Scientists at EPFL and IBM have developed a new type…