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Mark Poynting and Justin RowlattBBC News Climate and ScienceBefore the latest heatwave, the whelks had started to recover but he said the losses had forced him to scale back his business.Mr Cooper recalled fishing trips with his father in...

Key PointsYour skin’s health and appearance depend on a variety of factors, especially diet.The foods you eat can provide nutrients that have been shown to keep skin youthful and radiant.Foods rich in vitamin C, omega-3 fats, isoflavones and zinc...

Bioengineer Rohan Ingrole needed to floss a mouse’s teeth.The intent wasn’t to help mice get a clean bill of health at the dentist. Each bit of store-bought floss was coated with dead influenza viruses, or lab-made bits and pieces...

A beautiful menace is on the move in the United States. Polka-dotted, red-and-gray-winged insects are gliding along sidewalks, climbing on plants and crawling up buildings. Spotted youngsters are leaping away to avoid a sticky end at the bottom of...

Data provided by the water satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, is helping to improve tsunami forecast models, benefitting coastal communities. The SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite captured the tsunami spawned by an...

Severe allergic reactions can be swift and deadly. Two new studies of mice, published August 7 in Science, reveal a key step in this terrifying cascade. What’s more, these findings hint at a drug to prevent it.Anaphylaxis is a...

The advanced air mobility industry is currently working to produce novel aircraft ranging from air taxis to autonomous cargo drones, and all of those designs will require extensive testing – which is why NASA is working to give them...

Cuts of $500 million to vaccines research have been announced by the US government. Source link

In a major new finding almost a decade in the making, researchers at Harvard Medical School say they’ve found a key that may unlock many of the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease and brain aging — the humble metal lithium.Lithium...

Stone tools unearthed on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that ancient human relatives arrived there between about 1 million and 1.5 million years ago — far earlier than previously known.The discovery, described August 6 in Nature, pushes back the timeline...