Earth & Environment
Could Invisible Microplastics Raise Your Risk of Heart Attacks?
Plastic has become part of everyday life. It is used in food packaging, drink bottles, clothing, household products, cars, and countless other items.
As these...
Tiny bottle filter could bring safe drinking water to millions during floods and droughts
A team of researchers has created a small, portable water filter that could make it much easier for people to get clean drinking water...
Heat Waves and Dirty Air May Damage Your Heart
Hot weather does more than make people feel uncomfortable. It can also place extra strain on the heart and blood vessels.
Doctors from Vanderbilt University...
Most Americans prefer to die at home, but the US healthcare system often prevents...
Ask people what they want at the end of their lives, and overwhelmingly the answers will revolve around comfort, dignity and time at home...
Scientists discover mild warming rewires one-third of microalgae genes
Tiny microalgae may be invisible to the human eye, but they play a huge role in keeping Earth healthy.
They absorb large amounts of carbon...
New water sensors may help stop fish die-offs before they begin
New technology could soon help protect fish farmers around Africa's largest lake by providing early warnings before dangerous water conditions lead to mass fish...
Nearly one in four Dutch honeybee colonies died last winter, raising fresh concerns
Nearly one in four honeybee colonies in the Netherlands did not survive the winter of 2025–2026, according to a new national survey.
Researchers say the...
Neanderthals were thriving just before they disappeared, new DNA study reveals
For many years, scientists have wondered why Neanderthals disappeared after surviving for hundreds of thousands of years.
A new study suggests that, at least in...
Most of moon’s water likely remains chemically bound in its deep interior
After decades of analyzing reams of lunar rocks back here on Earth, the canonical view of the Moon was that it was anhydrous; that...
Slowing Atlantic Ocean current could bring stronger storms to California, study finds
A huge ocean current in the Atlantic Ocean may seem far away from California, but new research suggests it could have a major impact...
Busy roads can become deadly traps for bumblebees, new study warns
Roadside flowers may seem like a perfect place for hungry bumblebees to find food. However, new research from Sweden shows that these colorful roadside...
Dirty Air Could Slowly Damage the Brain and Cause Parkinson’s
The air we breathe every day may have a greater effect on our brains than many people realize.
A new study published in Environment International...
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ChatGPT’s use of a soundalike Scarlett Johansson reflects a troubling history of gender-stereotyping in...
Actress Scarlett Johansson released a statement this week expressing anger and concern that OpenAI used a voice "eerily similar" to her own as a...
Jack Bogle: Don’t Try to Time the Market!
Market timing is the strategy of making buying or selling decisions of financial assets by attempting to predict future market price movements.
The prediction may...
Tropical glaciers now smallest in 11,700 years, scientists find
Tropical glaciers, which are especially at risk from climate warming, have melted rapidly in recent decades.
The question, scientists say, is how much?
Researchers funded by...
Life on earth might really have started with clay
In mythologies and origin stories around the world, various cultures and religions point to clay as the vessel of life, the primordial material that...
Even low levels of air pollution may cause premature death
Scientists found that the annual global death toll from outdoor PM2.5 may be much higher than previously thought.
Dark stars: the first stars in the universe could have been powered by annihilating...
Dark matter doesn’t really do much of anything in the present-day universe.
But in the early days of the cosmos there may have been pockets...
Scientists trace the moon’s birth to Earth’s nearby planetary twin
Around 4.5 billion years ago, a dramatic event changed Earth forever.
A massive, planet-sized body called Theia slammed into the young Earth in a violent...
1,000-year-old Native American fields rewrite farming history
A groundbreaking discovery in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is changing what we thought we knew about ancient farming in North America.
Archaeologists have uncovered an enormous...