When it comes to the climate emergency, the scientific consensus is clear: human activity is heating Earth more rapidly now than at any point in the last 2,000 years. This...
Russia is the world's largest wheat exporter, with 20 percent of the world's wheat trade. Combine harvesters that can drive themselves using technology from Russian company Cognitive Pilot are helping...
This article appeared in the September/October 2021 issue of Discover magazine as "Death Defying." Become a subscriber for unlimited access to our archive.At the end of Plato’s Republic, the philosopher Socrates shares the myth...
Photos of 30-day old, mature wild type Arabidopsis leaf and 145-day old Arabidopsis leaf with down-regulated CIN-TCP and KNOX-II genes. Credit: Krishna Reddy Challa and Monalisha Rath A recent study,...
A quick Google search for “sharks” drums up a sampling of headlines of recent sightings. “Leopard Sharks Return to La Jolla Waters in Droves,” reads one, while another highlights a...
Earth sizzled in July and became the hottest month in 142 years of recordkeeping, U.S. weather officials announced.As extreme heat waves struck parts of the United States and Europe, the...
Outer Space Major Tom to Ground Control ... There's a Giant Asteroid Headed Our Way!!! 7/25/2021 7:01 AM PT There's a notable, near-ish-collision on Earth -- or at least one...
THE number of shark attacks has exploded across the globe as swimmers continue to ignore bloodbath warning signs - seeing nearly 800 people mauled in just nine years. America has...
The humerus bones of the newly-hatched pterosaurs were stronger than those of adults pterosaurs, indicating that they would have been strong enough for flight, according to new research led by...
Smoke from raging, climate-fueled wildfires out West blanketed East Coast skies this week. Siberia is burning, too. And flooding in China has displaced some 1.2 million people. In Jacobabad, Pakistan,...
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