“Man is a wolf to man,” wrote the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. And given the atrocities we inflict on one…
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Energy-efficient ways of cooling buildings and vehicles will be required in a changing climate. Researchers at Linköping University have now…
Aerogel that will be used to stabilize the fission fuel in the new FFRE. Credit: NASA / Ryan Weed Novel…
Giving experiences like ice skating as gifts and cutting down on food waste will keep your Christmas greenMassimo Borchi/Atlantide Phototravel/Getty…
Headaches are extremely common and they can take many forms, ranging from mild to debilitating and lasting minutes to days.…
Insects play crucial roles in almost every ecosystem — they pollinate more than 80% of plants and are a major…
Sun dogs You aren’t seeing triple. Sun dogs, brightly coloured blobs of light sometimes visible on either side of…
[]One of the deepest ocean trenches on Earth, the Kermadec Trench in the South Pacific, is home to rarely seen…
Dr Jody Hobson-Peters looks at cells used for the vaccine manufacture in culture in a container held by Dr Jessica…
Here’s something else chess players need to keep in check: air pollution. That’s the bottom line of a newly published…
[]A close-up of the mummified bear’s head. (Image credit: Press service of the North-Eastern Federal University)[]A perfectly preserved, mummified bear…
WITHOUT meaning to sound ungrateful, it really is the comedown after the festive cheer: the dreaded thank-you notes. Perhaps you…
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital (AP-HP), Inserm in the Imagine Institute, Université Paris Cité and the Alfort…
A study led by a North Carolina State University researcher found that under more severe climate warming scenarios, the inventory…
The rituals we build around Santa may be more for our benefit than for our children’s©Martin Parr/Magnum Photos ROHAN KAPITÁNY…
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter entered hospice care at his Plains, Ga., home last month. Much has been written about…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The latest report into the rights of children in Aotearoa New Zealand has painted a mixed…
A boulder weighing more than 40 tonnes sits on the sand high above the ocean. Dwarfing every other rock in…
Researchers aboard a whale watching boat in Iceland were baffled in 2021 when they saw a female orca swimming alongside…
[]Archaeologists accidentally discovered the world’s earliest horseback riders while studying skeletons found beneath 5,000-year-old burial mounds in Europe and Asia,…
A close-up of a sleeper shark (Galeorhinus galeus). (Image credit: D Ross Robertson/Smithsonian Institute)The remains of a missing person in…
A depiction of an earthquake in a 14th-century Apocalypse. Credit: British Library The catastrophic earthquakes of February 6, 2023 in…
IT IS the only part of your body that fossilises while you’re still alive,” says Tina Warinner at the Max…
The quail could be the unknown reservoir of the Toscana virus (TOSV) and the Sandfly Fever Sicilian virus (SFSV), mosquito-borne…
Many educational approaches assume that integrating complementary sensory and motor information into the learning experience can enhance learning, for example…
Disagreement has paralyzed our politics and our collective ability to get things done. But where do these conflicts come from?…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Danish creeks, Odense Å and Lindved Å, have surprised researchers and students at SDU by…
A mysterious object that has been slowly drifting toward the center of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole could be…
Three divers looking at a Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) in the Sea of Japan. (Image credit: Alexander Semenov via…
NASA’s Artemis I mission has made a close approach to the moon, flying within 130 kilometres above the farside of…