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CLIMATEWIRE | Algal blooms are growing bigger and more frequent worldwide as ocean temperatures rise and circulation patterns change. Climate change…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain U.S. elementary school students do not particularly benefit from being taught by teachers of the same…
Protesters demanding a “loss and damage” deal at the COP27 climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, EgyptSOPA Images Limited/Alamy Another year,…
Colombian environment minister Susana Muhamad has triggered fear among researchers that she will protect, rather than reduce, a growing population…
Perhaps unknowingly, airline passengers who lived through the outage of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Notice to Air Systems (NOTAM)…
Mounds of salt on the Salar de Uyuni, BoliviaJami Tarris/Stone RF/Getty Images A longstanding mystery about how salt dissolves in…
The skeletal remains of two Bronze Age brothers buried more than 3,400 years ago in what’s now northern Israel reveal…
For the first time, scientists generated stem cells from bats that can give rise to any type of cell found…
Flash Joule heating can be used to make carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers from mixed waste plastics, a method that…
Scientists have found the secret behind a property of solid materials known as ferroelectrics, showing that quasiparticles moving in wave-like…
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New research has found some antidepressants may be effective in treating certain chronic pain conditions, but others lack convincing evidence…
Volatile chemicals of tsetse flies. Methyl palmitoleate (MPO), produced by the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans, elicits physiological responses from olfactory…
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Tapping into your “muscle memory” to tie your shoes or play an instrument may feel automatic — but to execute…
More than 3 million adults were forced to evacuate their homes in the past year because of a natural disaster,…
My hometown of Los Angeles is home to the earliest reported earthquake dating back to 1769 (and, of course, many more since…
(A): Schematic of the nanocapillary sampling system, in which a nanocapillary is directed to the chosen cell using a nanomanipulator.…
The Fitbit Inspire 3 and Charge 5 are the brand’s more basic bands, sitting below the more smartwatch-like Versa 4…
An AI developed by researchers at Meta convincingly negotiated with humans while playing an online version of the board game…
Astronomers analysing data from the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted signs of chemical reactions driven by star light in…
A web of the group-living spider Cyrtophora citricola. Credit: Lena Grinsted Groups of spiders could be used as an environmentally-friendly…
Studies have shown that social isolation and loneliness are important risk factors for cardiovascular disease, but less has been known…
A sense of stagnation pervaded the summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, as negotiators failed to reach agreement on key…
The early pandemic years overlapped with some of California’s worst wildfires on record, creating haunting, orange-tinted skies and wide swathes…
Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica have shed more than half-a-trillion tonnes annually since 2000 — six icy Olympic pools…
A major earthquake struck southern Turkey early on Monday, causing extensive damage and killing thousands there and in neighboring Syria.…
In the 1970s a young gorilla known as Koko drew worldwide attention with her ability to use human sign language.…
The Colorado river is the lifeblood of the US Southwest, but today it is drastically depleted due to overuse, megadrought…