An outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India has put many countries in Asia on high alert, given the fatality rate in humans can be between 40% and 75%.
Several countries, including Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, have introduced new

An outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India has put many countries in Asia on high alert, given the fatality rate in humans can be between 40% and 75%.
Several countries, including Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, have introduced new

In a remarkable act of life preservation, surgeons were able to keep a critically ill man alive for 48 hours without a pair of lungs, while he waited for a double lung transplant – a radical approach that could be used again for selected…

IDAHO FALLS — From looking into the future with artificial intelligence to learning about mummies of the past, the Museum of Idaho ventures further back in time, before dinosaurs existed.
“Life Before Dinosaurs: Meet the Permian Monsters,” the…

Bio-tooth. These are ameloblasts — specialized epithelial…

A new study shows most elite researchers in China remained in the country over the course of their careers.Credit: An Yuan/China News Service/VCG/Getty
Deng Xiaoping’s 1979 visit to the United States heralded a new era of economic and…

Bad Influence: How the Internet Hijacked Our Health Deborah Cohen Viking (2026)
Previously, when you felt ill, you consulted a doctor. Now, you consult the Internet. In 2025, nearly 80% of US adults said that they were likely to look online for…

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Geoscientist Hiroto Nagai composed music about Earth’s climate system using meteorological data from the polar regions.Credit: K. R. Araragi
When Colin Campbell stood before colleagues at a chemistry-department gathering last February at the…

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Scientists are subject to scams, just as much as anyone else. Predatory journals take advantage of authors who submit papers and readers who access these papers; predatory conferences exploit speakers and attendees. But an…