If you believe the headlines, seaweeds can do almost anything from storing tons of carbon and stopping cows from belching methane, to making biofuels and renewable plastics – all while sustaining vibrant...
Two years after the remnants of Hurricane Ian dumped up to 10 inches of rain on New York City in just two hours, the metropolis is once again inundated today by extreme...
To capture the first image of a black hole, researchers had to build a telescope as big as Earth by stitching together data from observatories around the globe. When the fuzzy, glowing...
Think back to any dinosaur illustration you saw as a kid. The background was almost certainly one of two things: an asteroid streaking across the sky or a volcano blowing its top....
For roughly 250 million years, some 20,000-odd species of trilobite scuttled across Earth's ocean floor. Despite the huge abundance these diverse animals in our fossil records, much of their basic biology is...
Kamal Sonavane knew she’d pass out if she chewed smokeless tobacco one more time. It was a scorching April afternoon in the middle of another of India’s brutal heat waves, and with...
When Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and his Spanish troops returned to Europe from the Americas in the late 15th century, they notoriously brought back the deadly pathogen responsible for syphilis. Or so...
With any organ transplant, doctors are trying to balance how to prevent infections while tamping down the immune system. Without immunosuppressive drugs, the transplant organ will be rejected. But giving patients too...
