For people living in higher latitudes, distinct seasons are a fact of life. A verdant...
Home-field advantage, the benefit that a home team in a sporting contest enjoys over a...
The discovery of a 3,000-year-old city that was lost to the sands of Egypt has been hailed as one of the most important archaeological... Read More
A middle-aged white man raises his sword to the skies and roars to the gods. The results of his genetic ancestry test have just arrived in... Read More
In the chaos of a thunderstorm, upward moving lightning occasionally springs from the tops of tall structures. Scientists don’t fully... Read More
Just four days after headlines announced that a team from Germany’s Dresden University led by researcher Martin Tajmar had seemingly... Read More
There’s no way around it: Since the pandemic began, people around the world, of all ages, are spending lots more time looking at... Read More
Converting sunlight into hydrogen is a seemingly ideal way to address the world’s energy challenges. The process doesn’t directly... Read More
Its adorableness aside, the Mexican axolotl is a salamander of particular interest to scientists. On the molecular level, the animal seems to... Read More
In a glass case at the Ulster Museum of Belfast lies the mummified body of a woman whose cause of death had been undetermined since she... Read More
So, you want to find dark matter, but you don’t know where to look? A giant planet might be exactly the kind of particle detector you... Read More
Your always-congested sinuses might be a harbinger of more trouble down the road, new research out Friday suggests. The small study found... Read More
In recent years, cosmologists have been faced with a crisis: The universe is expanding, but no one can agree on how fast it's moving away... Read More
Astrophysicists have found a new region of the Milky Way, and it's filled with searingly hot, bright-blue stars that are about to... Read More
Every year, our planet encounters dust from comets1 and asteroid2. These interplanetary dust particles pass through our atmosphere and give... Read More
A team of archaeologists in north-west the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has uncovered the earliest evidence of dog domestication by the region's... Read More
The Perseverance rover has just landed on Mars. Meanwhile, its precursor Curiosity continues to explore the base of Mount Sharp (officially... Read More
The human brain as we know it today is relatively young. It evolved about 1.7 million years ago when the culture of stone tools in... Read More
Are some important questions simply un-answerable by humans due to the type of biological beings we are? Philosophers such as Kant thought... Read More
Almost one in five people lacks the protein α-actinin-3 in their muscle fibre. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet now show that more... Read More
Americans have celebrated the fact that the Biden administration is embracing science and returning the country to evidence-based... Read More
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a new, low-cost wearable device that transforms the human body into a... Read More
For people living in higher latitudes, distinct seasons are a fact of life. A verdant...
Home-field advantage, the benefit that a home team in a sporting contest enjoys over a...
In recent years, cosmologists have been faced with a crisis: The universe is expanding, but no one can agree on how fast it's moving away from us. That's because different ways of measuring the Hubble constant, a fundamental parameter that describes this expansion, have produced conflicting results. ... Read More
