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Mass tree planting in China is turning one of the world’s largest and driest deserts into a carbon sink, meaning it absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits, new research reveals.

The Taklamakan Desert (also spelled Taklimakan or…

For decades, paleontologists debated whether Late Jurassic East Asia was ecologically isolated from the rest of the supercontinent. A recent discovery in southwestern China may have brought that theory one step closer to extinction.

In…

The patient: An 18-year-old in Louisiana

The symptoms: The teenager, who was training to be a welder, developed a cough and was hospitalized with pneumonia and respiratory failure a week later. He was intubated at the hospital, meaning a tube…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.

So I have a confession that I need to get off my chest, and I’m bringing in my friend, SciAm’s very own Allison Parshall, to…

There are those who like to point out that we know more about space than the ocean , stoking a feeling of existential dread that we inhabit the same planet as one of the greatest unknowable entities around.

Still, that’s not to say space isn’t…

The fate of a comet that was predicted to pass close to Earth remains a mystery five years after its dramatic breakup in the inner solar system — but some astronomers think a part of it might still be out there.

In early 2020, astronomers…

Stool transplants are cutting-edge experimental procedures, but using poop as medicine is hardly a modern idea.

Ancient Romans knew their… feces – or at least they liked to think they did. According to historical documents, influential…

Romance scams are among the most emotionally damaging forms of cyber crime because they combine carefully manufactured intimacy with financial theft – the scammers go after your heart, and then your wallet.

Just last week, Australian police…