Fitbits, smart watches and other wearable devices are helping scientists track the lingering effects of COVID-19 on the human body. Using freely volunteered data from hundreds...
Tens of thousands of clams, mussels, sea stars, and snails were found boiled to death in a Vancouver, Canada, beach during the country’s record-breaking heat wave....
The way a planet is tilted on its rotational axis with respect to its orbital plane around a star – what we know as ‘axial tilt’...
Have you ever stared at a cauliflower before preparing it and got lost in its stunningly beautiful pattern? Probably not, if you are in your right...
Although vaccines work well against the Delta variant, the level of protection they offer seems to depend largely on whether you’ve completed your vaccination course. A study published Thursday in the journal...
Scientists have succeeded in combining two exciting material types together for the very first time: an ultrathin semiconductor just a single atom thick; and a superconductor,...
Songbirds are mysteriously dying across the mid-Atlantic region of the USA. Many have been discovered ill with eye swelling and discharge; some look like they’re having...
Human poop can reveal more than you might think, even when it’s really, really old. In a new study of a Central American Maya civilization, samples...
Until recently it was thought neutron star mergers were the only way heavy elements (heavier than zinc) could be produced. These mergers involve the mashup of...
When a star is born, the leftover dust and gas in the cloud from which it formed doesn’t just sit there. It clumps together, forming other...