Every so often in the Florida Keys, where coral reefs teem with marine life, an orange haze coats the sunset in the horizon – a fog of Saharan dust that wafts directly from Africa. The desert dust ...

The newly identified psychrotolerant yeast, Rhodotorula frigidialcoholis, was isolated from 150,000-year-old ice cemented permafrost in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. The researchers found it ...

A rapidly changing climate is expected to shift where species live.This will also alter human activities like agriculture and forest conservation, as the ranges of plant pathogens change.. Scientists ...

It is common practice to apply an ice pack to a sprained ankle or a sore muscle, and many professional athletes have been reported to use cryotherapy to aid with recovery. However, the benefits of the ...

The Senses. In this humorous, detailed, yet still accessible book, neuroscientist and illustrator Matteo Farinella takes the reader on a wild ride through key figures and fascinating facts about each ...

The newly identified psychrotolerant yeast, Rhodotorula frigidialcoholis, was isolated from 150,000-year-old ice cemented permafrost in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. The researchers found it ...

On April 15, 2019, the Notre-Dame Cathedral caught fire and burned for nine hours.But long after the fire was extinguished, environmental effects lingered. That’s because the cathedral contained 460 ...

This is a really interesting walk through the foundations of neuroscience. But I somewhat disagree with one of the authors' main assertions, where they claim that researchers focus primarily on the ...

Sandwiched inside your laptop, at the back of your smartphone, and under the hood of your dream electric car are powerful and lightweight lithium-ion batteries. Even though these batteries are found ...

Meet Hertha Ayrton, the mathematician who cleared WW1 trenches of poisonous gas. Ayrton was the first woman to recieve the Hughes Medal for outstanding research in the field of energy, but still the ...

The huge “scoop” from the Wall Street Journal earlier this week is that three staffers at the Wuhan Institute for Virology had become ill in late 2019, during cold and flu season. The article quotes a ...

In 2016, ProPublica reported that an artificial intelligence tool used in courtrooms across the United States to predict future crimes, the Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative ...