Category: General

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks.

More than 200,000 people – mostly citizens – would die by the year’s end as a direct consequence of the blasts,…

Life on Earth is complex and hard to understand, but new research may have finally given us a much-needed glimpse into the patterns that life follows as it spreads across our planet. According to a new study published in Nature Ecology…

Our solar system contains three types of planets. Between the four terrestrial…

We’re losing our fight to control climate change, which has led a lot of scientists to look for new ways to combat the consistently rising global temperatures. While we’ve come up with a few different solutions to try, many come…

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea ‘spiders’ farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite unlike anything seen before.

Unlike animals like ourselves, who are fed by a solar-powered food chain, those that live…

Every action in our world is powered by a “force of nature.” Currently, there are four main forces that scientists cling to; gravity, electromagnetism, weak interaction, and strong interaction. The latter two are technically…

Kitty couldn’t have digested looking-glass milk. Worse, if it had contained any bacteria with the opposite handedness, her immune system and antibiotics would have been ill suited to put up a fight. A group of prominent scientists recently

We’ve known about the existence of the rare Antarctic gonate squid since 1898. However, it has taken us over 100 years to actually see this squid alive. The creature dwells far beneath the glaciers of the Antarctic, and has been a…

Eli Lilly’s daily anti-obesity pill orforglipron appears to be as good at spurring weight loss and lowering blood sugar in diabetes patients as popular injectable GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, according to new data from a Phase 3 trial. The results…

Is coffee a health drink? While we’ve seen some interesting and often polarizing reports about just how healthy coffee is over the years, one thing appears to remain clear: there are some health benefits to drinking coffee. However,…