Scientific discoveries and research
Just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the universe was a dark and simple place. There were no galaxies like the Milky Way, no planets,...
Researchers are constantly sifting through new spectral data gathered by powerful telescopes, like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Most of the...
Images of families displaced by floods, prolonged droughts or extreme storms have become a distressingly regular feature of the daily news. As the imp...
Ask a child to draw some poo, and the shape will invariably be the same: a coil, broad at the base and pointy at the top, similar to a spiral swirl of...
An interstellar comet that blazed past the sun last year could be nearly three times older than our solar system and is unlike anything ever seen befo...
Destructive fishing practices and inadequate management allowed industrial fisheries operating in the waters of Saint Pierre and Miquelon to dump abou...
The number of people exposed to dangerous heat stress worldwide has risen sharply over the past half-century, propelled by climate change, according t...
"What goes on in Antarctica doesn't stay in Antarctica—it has global implications," Geology tauira Natalie-Jane Reid says. Reid is one of two Otago Ph...
An international team of researchers has discovered a remarkable new spider species in the rainforest of North Queensland that spins an ingenious and...
How large, fully folded proteins can pass through cell membranes without destroying them has long been one of the open questions in cell biology. Usin...
The main reason for sealing wine bottles with a cork is to protect the liquid from oxygen. However, it is not an impermeable barrier, and a small amou...
The European Commission has presented a new legislative package. It is intended to reform key provisions that have hitherto governed the approval of p...
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