It’s Nobel Prize week, the one week every year when people from all walks of life and from all corners of the globe celebrate science, read about ribosomes and give understanding particle physics a ...

Callan Cohen, from the University of Cape Town, who first observed this behavior in the longhorn beetles, investigated the reason behind this unusual sexual encounter. He separated the chemicals ...

The last decade has seen genetics and evolution grapple with its history; one composed of figures who laid the foundations of their field while also promoting vile racist, sexist, and eugenicist ...

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 ...

The West Coast of the United States, ranging from northern Washington to the Mexican border, faced one of the most devastating fire seasons ever in 2020. Fire season occurs during the hottest and ...

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 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 ...

We all encounter stress in our daily lives, but new research is revealing that the way you respond to stress and adverse experiences may be inherited from your parents. Paternal exposure to stressors ...

Mathematician, inventor, and friend of Marie Curie, Hertha Ayrton was an outspoken advocate for women’s rights in science and in the voting booth. Her Ayrton fan dispelled toxic fumes from WWI ...

No one knows for sure where SARS-CoV-2 came from. I don’t know, no one does. But there are two ideas. The first is the virus was harbored by an unknown animal, likely bats, where it mutated and picked ...

The thought of losing DNA for survival sounds bizarre, but many life forms do this at different stages of their life. For example, the parasitic worm Ascaris, also called the roundworm, loses about 13 ...