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A bear that roamed what is now China about six million years ago is the oldest bamboo-eating panda ancestor yet...

Captive macaques with a higher social rank tend to get more overweight, even though they don’t appear to consume more...

“We need nuclear energy to fight climate change,” says Alan Ahn, a senior fellow at Third Way, a think tank...

“Devilfish” catfish, also called suckermouths, are native to South America but have spread to four other continents. These freshwater invaders...

Today at New Scientist Live Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific advisor, joins us to discuss the future of UK...

Whenever social risk factors arise, “there’s an opportunity for someone to fall through the cracks or experience a delay,” says...

Human skulls are pierced with coffin nails and human bones are turned into Ouija board pieces; almost nothing is off-limits...

After discovering fossilised bamboo in the 11th century, Shen Kuo deduced that the climate in northern China had been different...

California activists fought to frame climate change as an air quality problem. Now it’s federal law. Original Source Link

This podcast was produced for the Lung Cancer Initiative at Johnson & Johnson by Scientific American Custom Media, a division...

Megadroughts are exceptionally severe, long-lasting or widespread relative to normally occurring dry stretches Environment 7 October 2022 By James Dinneen...

Now, what if I move outside this sphere? It turns out that the gravitational field due to a spherical distribution...

Editor’s Note (10/7/22): On October 6 President Joe Biden announced he would pardon “all prior federal offenses of simple possession...

A combination of moist ocean weather cycles, low-pressure systems and climate change have combined to make 2022 the wettest year...

In the new study’s first phase, each subject had their moment in front of the GoPros and microphone. Previous studies...

One of the more unsettling discoveries in the past half century is that the universe is not locally real. “Real,”...