What processes are responsible for the rate of glacier erosion across the world, and could it be more than one process? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to address as a team of…
It’s easy to assume nuclear war only affects those close enough to see that most terrifying of clouds. In reality, the devastation could stretch around the world.
A new study shows just how badly global food production would fare under…
In what first appears like a rather morbid game of “which would you rather?”, researchers have released a new study that games out how likely the average person is to die should one of various…
Scientists attached minuscule cameras to two red-footed boobies, which recorded footage of the seabirds hunting a shoal of flying fish in the Indian Ocean.
The birds live on a remote…
Another mosquito-borne disease is on the loose, as cases involving the Chikungunya virus continue to multiply in Southern China. The Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has recently escalated as a public health risk in China’s Guangdong Province, with…
Look, no one wants to lose a finger, but it happens more often than you’d think. And when it does, the stakes are naturally high, since fingers and thumbs are critical for nearly every task we do. That’s why replacing them (when amputation is…
The largest black hole ever detected is 36 billion times the mass of our Sun. It exists near the upper limit predicted by our cosmological models, leaving astronomers with burning questions surrounding…
In 2010, Jim Lovell explored his Apollo 8 spacecraft at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
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The bracelet was discovered in the forests of the Kociewie region in northern Poland when a…
A tidy textbook definition of life has never existed, yet most biology lessons still lean on the idea that living things must grow, make energy, and reproduce on their own.
That simple checklist leaves viruses outside the club, since their…