Tag: nature

A massive survey of the world's oceans has uncovered 5000 viruses that are new to science, some of which are involved in carbon capture on the sea floor. The first ...

Following half a year of commissioning in space, NASA will release the first operational images taken by the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, according to an ...

Vaccines against COVID-19, while protective against hospitalization and death, may not be great at preventing long COVID after breakthrough infections, a new study finds. Epidemiologists associated with the US Department ...

After half a dozen monkeypox cases were identified in the United Kingdom earlier this month, countries on alert across the world have spent the past week looking for—and finding—hundreds of ...

While our elementary school science classes may have taught us the basics about seeds and how to plant them, if you’ve gotten into gardening as an adult, you’ve probably figured ...

“Food or Poison? … Strange Pranks of a Medical Mystery” (Frederic Damrau, M.D., November 1936)

About 20 miles offshore from Martha’s Vineyard, a yellow robotic buoy is bobbing in place just above the waves. Like most data-collection buoys, this moored robot is eavesdropping on the ...

When Albert Einstein was five years old, his father gave him a small pocket compass to amuse him while he was in bed with a brief illness. Seeing the invisible ...

Around 15 years ago, a slogan began to appear on bumper stickers, license plate holders, and tote bags: Save the bees. The sense that these pollinators—and the food system they ...

NASA is always searching for new ways to extend its ability to see into the outer reaches of the universe and, in its latest series of experiments, it’s exploring a ...