Tag: science

Chase Doran Brownstein from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University and the Stamford Museum and Nature Center has described two new dinosaurs — a herbivorous hadrosaur ...

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 ...

People have been enjoying ice cream for hundreds of years. But there have never before been as many flavors as we enjoy these days. From sweet to savory, the ice’s ...

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, ...

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 ...

Readers intent on enlightening me often send me books and essays written by them or, less often, others. Now and then one of these offerings grabs my attention before I ...

As the Delta variant spreads across the US, COVID-19 cases are back on the rise, especially in children.  According to a new statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), ...

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 ...