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, ...

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 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 ...

Since childhood, books, photography, and travel have been part of my world. Fascinated by life, by the stars, by landscapes that tell stories without a single word, I quickly realized that I needed to ...

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 ...

On June 9, 2023, Dr. Joseph Dituri rose from a Key Largo lagoon and saw sunlight for the first time in 100 days. A crowd and medical team were waiting; so were the results of an experiment no one had ...

Qui aurait imaginé qu’un singe, muni d’un simple pot de peinture et d’un pinceau, puisse un jour voir l’une de ses œuvres exposée chez un des plus grands maîtres de la peinture de tous les temps ? Né ...

Avec le projet Global Building Atlas, une équipe de chercheurs a créé la première carte 3D haute résolution de tous les bâtiments existants sur Terre, soit un peu moins de 3 milliards. Un tel ...