If Paris Agreement Goals Are Missed, These Polar Bears Could Go Extinct
One group in Hudson Bay might have roughly decade left because sea ice is becoming too thin to support them…
Mars Got Cooked During a Recent Solar Storm
Days after light shows filled Earth’s skies with wonder, the red planet was hit by another powerful outburst of the…
Cada elefante tiene nombre propio, sugiere un estudio
Un análisis de las vocalizaciones de los elefantes mediante una herramienta de inteligencia artificial sugiere que pueden utilizar y responder…
Akira Endo, Scholar of Statins That Reduce Heart Disease, Dies at 90
The Japanese biochemist found in the 1970s that cholesterol-lowering drugs lowered the LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, level in the blood.Akira…
Ancient Maya Genomes Sequenced for First Time
Thousand-year-old DNA from Chichén Itzá offers eye-opening details of the religious rituals of ancient Maya.In the spring of 1967, workers…
White House Takes a Tiny Bite From Giant Pile of Food Waste
The government will look at ways to extend the shelf life of foods and to create more composting and other…
Four Astronauts Spent 3 Days in Space. Here’s What It Did to Their Bodies and Minds.
An extensive examination of medical data gathered from the private Inspiration4 mission in 2021 revealed temporary cognitive declines,Space changes you,…
A Big Whack That Made the Moon May Have Also Created Continents That Move
Computer simulations suggest that a collision with another planetary object early in Earth’s history may have provided the heat to…
In Vermont, a Glimpse of a Plant Last Seen a Century Ago
“Are you sitting down?” Vermont’s state botanist asked a fellow plant expert after spotting false mermaid-weed last month.For those who…
Morrie Markoff, Listed as Oldest Man in the U.S., Dies at 110
A rare supercentenarian, he remained remarkably lucid after 11 decades, even maintaining a blog. His brain has been donated for…