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For the past two years, social distancing kept seasonal viruses at bay. Now they’re roaring back. Original Source Link

Over the next 12 days, delegates from around the world will try to hammer out a Paris-style agreement to halt...

Everyone needs great sleep, but this is tough in a world where other basic needs - like earning a living –...

Inside the snug confines of the human ear lies a bony structure, curly and shaped like a seashell. This structure,...

The Indonesian island of Java’s tallest volcano, Semeru, sent an ash cloud nearly a mile into the air this week—the...

An artificial intelligence that can detect diarrhoea with 98 per cent accuracy from recordings of toilet sounds could help track...

At the end of 2021, a group of night poachers in a Mozambique national park—using torchlight to blind antelopes—were suddenly...

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to ban new oil and gas wells in the city and eventually...

When shown their reflection, wild Adélie penguins can tell it isn't another penguin – but they may not fully connect...

Native to East Asia, Jorōs are one of many so-called golden orb weavers, named after the shiny silk they use...

Nearly 60 years ago computer scientist Ruth Weiss of Bell Labs published a pioneering algorithm to turn three-dimensional objects into...

A complete map of the neurons inside the brain of a fruit fly larva is the largest example of a...

In 2016, astronomers led by Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University published a bombshell paper claiming the discovery of a...

Science in meter and verse Original Source Link

Of more than 140,000 Twitter users who announced they were moving to Mastodon, just 1.6 per cent have actually quit...

This story originally appeared in Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.When Roswell Schaeffer Sr. was 8 years...