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Science
What do your blood test results mean? A toxicologist explains the basics of how to interpret them
Your blood serves numerous roles to maintain your health
Sugary handshakes are how cells talk to each other − understanding these name tags can clarify how the immune system works
Like the people they make up, cells communicate by bumping into one another and...
Flowers grown floating on polluted waterways can help clean up nutrient runoff and turn a profit
Nutrient runoff is a critical issue as urban areas expand, affecting the health...
Gut microbiome: meet Bilophila wadsworthia – a microbe that’s both friend and foe
You may not have heard of hydrogen sulfide, but I bet you’d recognise the smell....
Larger and more frequent solar storms will make for potential disruptions and spectacular auroras on Earth
Bright auroras, with dancing lights in the sky, characterize the clear winter nights...
Why now is the time to address humanity’s impact on the moon
Humans have always looked at the sky, using the stars as navigation guides or for...
NASA is looking for commercial Mars missions. Do people still want to go to Mars?
Mars has been a source of myth, lore and inspiration since antiquity. It is also...
A new generation of spaceplanes is taking advantage of the latest in technology
Nasa’s space shuttle operated in low-Earth orbit for 30 years before its retirement...
Ice ages were not as dry as we thought, according to surprising new Australian cave study
During ice ages, dry, frozen terrain extended over much of northern Europe, Asia...
The brain is the most complicated object in the universe. This is the story of scientists’ quest to decode it – and read people’s minds
In the middle of 2023, a study conducted by the HuthLab at the University of Texas...
Orbital resonance − the striking gravitational dance done by planets with aligning orbits
Planets orbit their parent stars while separated by enormous distances – in our...
‘A deeply troubling discovery’: Earth may have already passed the crucial 1.5°C warming limit
Global temperatures have already exceeded 1.5°C warming and may pass 2°C later this...
A new virus-like entity has just been discovered – ‘obelisks’ explained
Biological entities called obelisks have been hiding – in large numbers – inside...
Ice storms, January downpours, heavy snow, no snow: Diagnosing ‘warming winter syndrome’
One of the most robust measures of Earth’s changing climate is that winter is warming...
Meat and dairy industry’s attempt to change how we measure methane emissions would let polluters off the hook
Lobbyists from major polluting industries were out in force at the recent UN climate...
A net-zero world will be more peaceful, it’s assumed – but first we have to get there
The final text of the latest UN climate summit COP28, now called the UAE consensus,...