SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

People who carry variations in two genes linked to appetite and digestion can lose more weight when taking drugs to treat obesity, research suggests. Source link

When a drought turns into an urban water crisis, a city’s first step is often to limit lawn watering and launch a campaign to encourage everyone to conserve. It might raise water-use rates or offer...

The team aims to find out what it is about the Isle of Wight that makes people feel better. Source link

The oldest fossil octopus isn’t an octopus at all.That’s the conclusion from new research on a perplexing fossil previously thought to be the most ancient record of an octopus. The findings — published April 8 in Proceedings of the...

Scientists at the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering have reached a milestone with the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment. Located deep underground at the Sudbury Neutrino...

MIT.nano has announced that 16 startups became active participants in its START.nano program in 2025, more than...

It has been said that Persian Gulf countries are both blessed and cursed by their vast oil and gas reserves. Geologic forces over millions of years have meant the region is an energy-rich global flash...

Chronic wound infections are notoriously difficult to manage because some bacteria can actively interfere with the body’s...

One-third of people with migraines don’t respond to current treatments, but harnessing the brain’s cleaning system could open up...

When fuel ran out during the second world war, some farmers in Germany and France made their own fuel...