One million plastic water bottles are sold every minute worldwide. That number is rising. And according to researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar, the product inside those bottles is ...

At the heart of the world’s largest cave, two fossil sharks dating back 325 million years have just been uncovered. These prehistoric marine predators, discovered in Mammoth Cave and in Alabama, ...

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The history of peoples across the millennia can be read in our DNA. In Europe, it tells a story of intense mixing between groups, shaped by waves of migration and movement. In South Africa, however, a ...

For six years, a 570 megapixel camera mounted on a telescope in the Chilean Andes photographed the sky. Over 758 nights, it recorded light from 669 million galaxies, billions of light years away. The ...

For many older adults, preserving brain function is a growing concern. A recent study led by researchers at King’s College London suggests that a daily supplement made from plant fiber could help ...

For decades, hazard models relied on seafloor data from the 1980s. In 2021, Suzanne Carbotte, marine geophysicist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, led a 41-day expedition ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder exposed human brain cells to the amount of erythritol found in a single sugar-free beverage, and what happened in those three hours, published in the ...

289 dives. Two and a half years. What they pulled out of the Øresund Strait between Denmark and Sweden, announced last December, turned out to be the largest medieval cargo vessel ever discovered. The ...

Turning CO2 into energy might sound like science fiction – or at least like a bold climate promise. Yet that is exactly what China has achieved by inaugurating two fully operational power generators ...

Produire de la nourriture sur la Lune ou sur Mars sera indispensable pour de futures missions habitées de longue durée. Mais ...

Croire que le monde tel que nous le connaissons s'effondrera dans un futur proche ne semble plus si irréaliste. Ce type ...