SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Physically, Homo sapiens is not that special in the animal world. But the species has discovered ways of finding...

In the United States, children routinely receive an injectable form of the polio vaccine. This vaccine is...

The expected arrival of El Niño in the next few months could trigger another mass coral bleaching event, just a year after the last one's conclusion, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned this week.This...

A line that runs through Africa, Europe, Alaska and both poles divides Earth into two halves that reflect the...

When Mark Thomson was 13, he read a book about the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as...

UN researchers are urging people to be less polite to artificial intelligences after a report found that cutting words...

Yeast has been growing in the guts of a frozen mummy called Oetzi the Iceman for thousands of years, scientists have discovered, telling AFP they used it to make a sourdough bread.More than 5,300 years...

The ketogenic diet, best known as a fat-busting fad, holds promise for treating anorexia nervosa. Following the diet –...

For more than 30 years, manufacturers of ski and snowboard waxes used PFAS – per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – to make skis and snowboards glide faster over snow. These synthetic chemicals were highly effective and...

Ötzi the Iceman has long been treated as a frozen messenger from the Copper Age. But his remains might not be completely preserved in time, a new study suggests.A team has identified cold-adapted yeasts that could have colonized Ötzi...