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Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History Caroline Tracey W. W. Norton (2026)

More than 11,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, huge glaciers that shrouded the Sierra Nevada mountains in what is now the western United States began to melt…

Each year, my laboratory receives around 200 PhD-student applications. I also serve on the admissions committee for a doctoral programme at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign that receives between 300 and…

Thanks to legislation passed by the US Congress on 3 February, government spending on research and development unrelated to national defence is expected to decrease by 3–7% in the current fiscal year. This is much less than the 33% cut sought…

Taking a multivitamin every day can slow certain markers of biological ageing, a new study suggests.

The research, published in…

The central region of our Milky Way, sometimes referred to as the “Bulge,” remains something of an enigma to astronomers. Because it is densely packed with stars and clouds of dust and gas, capturing images of its interior has…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Most of America ‘springs forward’ for daylight saving time. Losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day; it also could harm your health.

Darker mornings and more evening light knock…

A group of natural compounds attracting attention for their anti-aging potential has a dark side.

New research shows how a family of chemicals called polyamines speeds up the growth of cancer cells. Led by a team from the Tokyo University of…

Dr. John Pandolfino jokes that he comes from a long line of electricians and plumbers — and that as a gastroenterologist, he’s stayed in the family business.

That’s because the esophagus, the organ that brings food from your mouth to your…

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that everything we thought we knew about the peopling of Europe by modern humans was wrong. The story was simpler than anyone…