This small gesture quietly weaves an unseen web where every actor plays their part. If these animals can make it through winter in good health, they keep on fulfilling their ecological roles—like ...

Iran continues to face severe international sanctions, which complicate its access to global finance, limit oil exports, and slow down industrial partnerships. In this tricky context, each new ...

Researchers have genetically modified NK cells to enable them to both kill cancer cells and evade the patient's immune system. © Ania, Adobe Stock (AI-generated ...

Lead author Dr. Brian D. Nicholson and a team of researchers from the University of Oxford analyzed records from 28,204 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer in England between 2017 and 2021. Among ...

It is worth clearing out the myths, because most popular “hacks” have little to no evidence behind them: eating garlic, taking vitamin B, wearing repellent wristbands, and those satisfying bug-zappers ...

Every two years, asteroid specialists from around the world gather for a fictional impact exercise. Each participant plays a specific role: government official, space agency rep, astronomer, or ...

For the past few years, astrophysicists have been stuck on a stubborn contradiction. Two different methods of measuring how fast the universe is expanding keep producing two different answers.

Cicadas are ectotherms (cold-blooded animals), which means their body temperature is controlled entirely by the surrounding air. To activate the super-fast muscles necessary to create their ...

Aboard the research vessel Meteor, geophysicist Emanuele Lodolo noticed an unexpected structure on his sonar screen during a routine survey. Located less than four miles off Sicily's southwest coast, ...

Red dwarfs are cooler and fainter than our sun. As a result, LHS 1140 b receives only 42% of Earth’s radiation, despite orbiting closer than Mercury. That keeps it squarely in the habitable zone, ...

Keep expectations realistic: fragrant plants are a helpful backup, not a force field. The real defense is an unappealing kitchen, so cover the fruit bowl, take out the trash promptly and seal your ...

This led the European Reference Laboratory for Listeria monocytogenes (the bacterium behind listeriosis) to lower the test temperature for ready-to-eat food shelf life from 12°C (53.6°F) to 10°C (50°F ...