Notre Dame is back. And so are its acoustics. The Paris cathedral, which burned dramatically in a fire in 2019, is reopening to the public on December 8. In the aftermath of the fire, acoustics resear...
From monitoring Mercury to launching a new adventure to an icy moon of Jupiter, spacecraft and astronauts made great strides in 2024. Here are some of the highlights of this year in space. New lunar v...
A comparable hot gas bubble around the sun shields Earth from galactic cosmic rays A young star nicknamed the Moth plows through a dense cloud of interstellar dust and gas. That movement pushes the st...
CHICAGO — New clinical trial results on the diabetes and obesity drug tirzepatide have doctors buzzing about its potential to treat heart failure, keep weight off and prevent type 2 diabetes. One of ...
Unbearable heat waves around the world killed scores of people and upended daily life A boy in Delhi pours water on himself to cool off during a heat wave in May. The territory set a record-high tempe...
Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life, first on family trips to the Chilean coast and later as a researcher studying the impacts of climate change and illegal poa...
Certain fungi give trees nutrients and water, but heat and drought put both at risk For trees and fungi that rely on one another to survive, moving into new suitable habitats as climate change progres...
Males still wrap surprises for female spiders in silk but inside there’s just a bit of junk A male Paratrechalea ornata woos with a silk-wrapped gift. Its contents might be a morsel of insect meat or ...
ESA’s Proba-3 mission will demonstrate precision flying and study the sun’s mysterious corona The two Proba-3 spacecraft (illustrated) will be the first to fly in precision formation, which will let t...
A new study finds that rising placebo responses may play a part in the increasingly high failure rate for clinical trials of drugs, but the authors of the study say that the increase in placebo respon...
Oxybenzone, a UV-filtering compound used in sunscreens, has been found in high concentrations in the waters around popular coral reefs in Hawaii and the Caribbean. According to new research, the chemi...
Around one third of people with depression have high levels of inflammation markers in their blood. Now, new research appearing in in Molecular Psychiatry shows that persistent inflammation affects th...
