A water harvesting method long used by small desert communities could scale up for cities Large-scale fog water harvesting has the potential to relieve water stress at Alto Hospicio, a fast-growing ci...
Sex is messy. It’s not just about chromosomes. Or reproductive cells. Or any other binary metric. Many genetic, environmental and developmental variations can produce what are thought of as masculine ...
How objects charge when touched depends on their history, scientists find A balloon rubbed on hair will pick up a negative charge, but scientists still don’t understand exactly how this process works....
Formed after a solar superstorm, the belts lasted longer than scientists expected The May 2024 solar storm made two new radiation belts (purple) that slotted in between the permanent Van Allen belts (...
Pamela Canaday loves her job. For the last 20 years, she has been supporting biomedical research labs at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland by running flow cytometry, a test that helps res...
Why did humans start speaking? Scientists suggest genetics played a big role – and they say the evolution of this singular ability was key to our survival.A new study links a particular gene to the an...
High temperatures and extreme pressures create ice with properties of both crystalline ice and liquid water Scientists have finally observed plastic ice (illustrated), a sort of hybrid phase between s...
Carbon-dating teeth suggests two large mammal species roamed northeastern Brazil 3,500 years ago In what is now northeastern Brazil, large mammals (some illustrated) may have roamed as recently as 3,5...
This is episode 2 of The Deep End. Listen to more episodes here. Depression can affect not just the mind, but the body, too. Inner experiences of mental struggles are private. But in this episode, Jon...
BOSTON — The official theme of the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held February 13–15, is “Science Shaping Tomorrow.” The unofficial theme is “uncertainty.” With t...
