Los Angeles wildfire season now lasts roughly 23 days longer than in preindustrial times As the Santa Ana winds raced through the Los Angeles area in January, they fanned the flames of ongoing blazes....
Broadcasting vocalizations may affect group dynamics Bats may broadcast their individual personalities through their calls, a study finds, with chattier bats behaving more boldly. Luis Vargas/iNatural...
Found in a 17th century manuscript, the illustration shows the brain of a honeybee drone This drawing by Johannes Swammerdam shows the brain of a honeybee drone. It’s the oldest known image of an inse...
Citations P.S. Rahko. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: New insights into long-term outcomes. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Vol. 84, September 24, 2024, p. 1175. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2024.05.0...
Warm salty ponds, but no living creatures, also dotted the space rock’s precursor body Analyses of dark rocks and dust collected from the asteroid Bennu show the sample has the biochemical building bl...
Engineered waterways helped Casarabe people turn savannas into year-round crop fields Maize was a key food source for ancient Casarabe people in what is now Bolivia. To fuel a growing society, Casarab...
“It’s basically a declaration of war on public health,” says one expert A U.S.-funded public health program called PEPFAR supplies medications to people living with HIV, including this sixteen-year-ol...
In 1960, a new drug revolutionized society from the bedroom to the streets. The introduction of a hormonal contraceptive, the birth control pill, gave women reproductive autonomy and a more effective ...
A diet of poor-quality scraps is changing the behavior and physiology of blacktip reef sharks Blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) on the island of Mo’orea receive food scraps from tourist...
The oral drug, called Journavx, is meant to treat short-term pain A new oral drug called Journavx is intended for the treatment of short-term pain, such as following surgery or another tissue injury. ...
A compact method of detecting the subatomic particles provides new tests of physics theories Scientists detected antineutrinos with a 3-kilogram detector in an experiment at the Leibstadt Nuclear Powe...
Cities with higher temperatures and dwindling green space also have more rats Rats love warmer weather. As temperatures in cities increase, people make more rat complaints, a new study shows. Jamie Be...
