Trees are the Earth's lungs – it's well understood they drawdown and lock up vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But emerging research is...
It's easy to focus on all the negatives amid a traumatic global pandemic, but there are some positives, too.
Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are basically everywhere, powering everything from smartphones to notebooks, earbuds to gaming devices, and so much more.
Whiskers on cats and other mammals aren't covered with sensors. Instead, the sensing is done at the base of the whisker, hidden inside a small follicle,...
Have you ever noticed how we usually try and solve problems by adding more, rather than taking away? More meetings, more forms, more buttons, more shelves,...
A bacterium that dwells deep underground, living off chemical reactions triggered by radioactive decay, has been doing so unchanged for millions of years, new research...
A sweeping meta-analysis of data from the United Kingdom Biobank has found a different genetic basis for chronic pain in women compared to men.
We've known for a while that Earth is under a constant rain of space dust, and that it's copious. Given its microscopic size, however, it's been very...
For any one of the 2.8 million people around the world living with the autoimmune disorder multiple sclerosis (MS), life changes in ways that can be...
A cosmic gamma ray detected zipping across the Milky Way has broken the record for the most energetic we've found yet, clocking in at a whopping...