SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Making a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 classic "Alien" should have been a disaster. This was a movie that defined a whole new sub-genre of outer-space horror, a perfectly structured scarefest that also introduced one of cinema's greatest-ever monsters...

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As sea levels rise due to climate change, encroaching sea water will likely make freshwater environments saltier. In a new study, MIT researchers have shown how that increase in salinity might affect microbial ecosystems found in environments such as...

Growing up in Colombia, Diana Grass had a simple response whenever someone told her something was impossible.“I’ll figure it out.”It’s a phrase that she still lives by today as PhD candidate in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and...

A lettuce supplier to fast-food giant Taco Bell is being investigated as a possible source for a nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people, a source familiar with the investigation told CBS News on...

Wildfire smoke has been pouring across the U.S. border from fires in Canada again, turning skies an eerie shade of orange in several states in July 2026. In the West, smoke has also been spreading...

The ban comes after 1,100 responses to a consultation which strongly supported introducing an age restriction on the drinks, external.The new rules will come in via secondary legislation using powers from the Food Safety Act 1990.Too much caffeine can...

New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of a puzzling near-Earth object by precisely tracking its motion through space and using powerful observatories that image faint celestial objects. This object...

NotebookLM may not be the most well-known of Google's numerous AI products, but having been introduced as Project Tailwind in May 2023, it's...

Jeff Carroll was in his mid-twenties, fresh out of the U.S. Army, when a genetic test confirmed his worst fear: He was going to develop Huntington’s disease.He had watched his mother’s illness for years; the tremors first, small enough...