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...
As many as 100 people could have gathered in the cave space unearthed in Israel A chamber deep inside an Israeli cave, shown here, served as a ritual compound for large gatherings as early as around 3...
It might seem like magic. Type a request into ChatGPT, click a button and — presto! — here’s a five-paragraph analysis of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and, as an added bonus, it’s written in iambic pentameter...
Tiny encapsulated microjets allow doctors to deliver drugs into various internal organs Inspired by the mechanism squids use to propel liquid through their siphons, a new needle-free device for delive...
Following a public outcry, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield announced December 5 it had walked back plans that would have put time limits on health insurance payments for anesthesia care in certain state...
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...
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...
