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Air pollution is a major public health problem: The World Health Organization has estimated that it leads to over 4 million premature deaths worldwide annually. Still, it is not always extensively measured. But now an MIT research team is rolling out an o...

A new study in Genome Biology and Evolution reveals that egg yolk proteins may have been co-opted to provide maternal nutrition in live-bearing sharks and their relatives....

Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to spot two pairs of gigantic black holes set for two separate, first-of-their-kind collisions....

New research from University of WisconsinMadison scientists traces two tiny invasive species through their outsized effects on the water quality, algae blooms and toxic conditions in a Wisconsin lake....

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have confirmed that bacteria-killing viruses called bacteriophages deploy a sneaky tactic when targeting their hosts: They use a standard genetic code when invading bacteria, then ...

False killer whales off the Northern Australia coast need their conservation status reviewed because of similarities they share with groups from Hawaii listed as Endangered in the U.S., a Charles Darwin University (CDU) researcher says....

There's been a well-documented shift toward earlier springtime flowering in many plants as the world warms. The trend alarms biologists because it has the potential to disrupt carefully choreographed interactions between plants and the creatures&mdash...

Satellite broadband customers are increasingly demanding shorter-term contracts to hold out for better prices in a market set for a flood of low Earth orbit capacity, according to executives of regional satellite operators. The post LEO constellations are...

A woman is in remission for HIV after she received HIV-resistant stem cells from umbilical cord blood to treat her leukaemia...

A woman who received a stem cell transplant to treat her HIV is still virus-free more than five years after the procedure and 30 months after she stopped taking HIV medication....

The vast, swirling ocean within Jupiter's moon Europa may be affecting the rotation of its icy crust, scientists say....

The Ashaninka are the most numerous Indigenous people living in the rainforests of Peru and Brazil where they inhabit a crucial area between the Andes and sources of the Amazon River. And yet, despite the size of the population and their importance in the...

Using archival radar images taken in the 1990s by NASA's Magellan spacecraft, scientists have found evidence of recent active volcanism on Venus. The images revealed a volcanic vent that changed shape and increased significantly in size over an eight-...

This podcast features two experts in nonlinear optics The post Nonlinear optics: we explore the science and its many applications appeared first on Physics World ....

The government announced new support for nuclear power in the Spring Budget....

After decades of searching, scientists have finally found a clear sign of active volcanism on Venus. The post Scientists Finally Find Active Volcanism on Venus appeared first on Sky & Telescope ....

Newly discovered Comet C/2023 A3 might reach naked-eye brightness when it flies past Earth in 2024. Check out our forecast of what to expect to see in the months ahead. The post Anticipating Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) appeared first on Sky & Tele...

The year is 1959. Speleologists descend a 17-meter shaft to explore the depths of Mairs Cave in the southern Flinders Ranges. Some 55 meters into the main chamber, they find fossils scattered throughout a boulder pile. Among these fossils are a claw and p...

New research is shedding light on the tumultuous processes that give rise to diamonds, by homing in on a distinct purple companion found alongside them....

A biological method that produces metal nanoclusters using the electroactive bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens could provide a cheap and sustainable solution to high-performance catalyst synthesis for various applications such as water splitting....

OpenAI just released an updated version of its text-generating artificial intelligence program. Here's how GPT-4 improves on its predecessor...

In 1949 physicist Chien-Shiung Wu devised an experiment that documented evidence of entanglement. Her findings have been hidden in plain sight for more than 70 years...

Seismic waves suggest that Earth has a hidden heart, a distinct region within the solid part of the planet's core....

California's snowpack was more than twice the average in much of the state in early March 2023. Mario Tama/Getty Images After three years of extreme drought, the Western U.S. is finally getting a break. Mountain ranges are covered in deep snow , and w...

Bird flu is transmitted mainly by wild birds, like these snow geese in Ruthsberg, Md., in January 2023. Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images An outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza that started in 2021 has become the largest bird flu outbreak in history, ...

Bailouts mean customers' deposits are safe, but the Silicon Valley Bank's demise has sparked concern about future investment in small tech companies...

A first-of-its-kind probe brings physicists one step closer to solving the proton radius puzzle...

Quantum bursts of light could help examine minute chemical reactions and reveal the quantum properties of mysterious materials...

The small electric charge generated by a moving insect is enough to affect the trajectory of a parasitic nematode's leap so it lands right on its host....

A spider that caught and devoured a much larger shrew for its meal adds to evidence that more spiders aren't strangers to dining on vertebrates...

Save $145 on this great-looking laptop from ASUS, now reduced at Walmart....

Archaeologists have discovered two 1,400-year-old murals of two-faced men within a ceremonial hall that belonged to the Moche culture of Peru....

Imaging cerebral oxygenation during radiotherapy with functional near-infrared spectroscopy provides a step toward personalized cancer treatments The post Real-time monitoring of brain tissue oxygenation could personalize radiotherapy appeared first on Ph...

A Mississippi woman's life has been transformed by a treatment for sickle cell disease with the gene-editing technique CRISPR. All her symptoms from a disease once thought incurable have disappeared....

Famous 'jellyfish' fossil from 300 million years ago was upside-down the whole time. It's actually another animal entirely....

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) research company behind ChatGPT and the DALL-E 2 art generator, has unveiled the highly anticipated GPT-4 model. Excitingly, the company also made it immediately available to the public through a paid service. GPT-...

New U.S. data show that as maternal deaths rise, a large gap between the maternal mortality rate of Black women compared with white women persists....

Asteroid Didymos is spitting rocks out into space. Last fall, when NASA's DART mission impacted Didymos' moon Dimorphos in a dramatic (and successful) attempt to change the object's orbit, DART got a quick look at the Didymos system before the...

Kimberlite volcanic rock with mantle crystals (green olivine and purple and orange garnet) and fragments of country rock (light grey). Author provided New research is shedding light on the tumultuous processes that give rise to diamonds, by homing in on a...

Dynatoaetus gaffae was twice the size of the wedge-tailed eagle we know today. Mike Lee The year is 1959. Speleologists descend a 17-metre shaft to explore the depths of Mairs Cave in the southern Flinders Ranges. Some 55 metres into the main chamber, the...

In a groundbreaking announcement at the 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in The Woodlands, Texas, scientists revealed the discovery of a relict glacier near Mars' equator. Located in Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus at coordinates 7 33' ...

A multi-state study from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) VISION Network has found that first-generation COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were associated with protection against COVID-19 during periods of Omicron BA.4/BA.5 predominance...

At a glance:In a step forward for genetic engineering and synthetic biology, researchers have modified E. coli bacteria to be immune to infection by all natural viruses tested so farThe team also employed two methods to prevent the bacteria and their modi...

Tuning the reaction conditions such as degree of filling and gas composition can have a major impact on the products obtained by hydrothermal synthesis obtained. This was clearly represented in the new Tokyo Tech study where they synthesized an unreported...

Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) shed light on the neural stem and progenitor cell (NSPC) microenvironment during development. Neurosphere formation from embryonic mouse forebrain NSPCs was significantly increased under low oxyg...

Sugar content reductions perform comparable to similar, non-reduced products while smaller package sizes perform better than regular sizes....

People living in the United States must travel significantly farther to access methadone treatment for opioid addiction than Canadians, suggests a new study led by Washington State University researchers. The researchers' analysis showed that the aver...

Around 2007, the time taken for ice floes to cross the Arctic basin dropped by 1.6 years....

Discovery highlights need for future missions after NASA puts one on hold....

Atomic-resolution view of receptor activation by the odorant proprionate....