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Lithium is used in batteries for smartphones, laptops and electric vehicles, but some mines have been accused of creating environmental...

The Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization shattered the U.S.’s already patchwork...

If we can use mycelium composites to build structures that change how we live on this planet, Hendrikx began to...

Other animals on the farm, too, may be vulnerable to wildfire smoke. Horses have massive lungs—the animals are born to...

Computers are sometimes kept disconnected from the internet, or "air gapped", to avoid remote hackers gaining access to steal data,...

Even though the researchers only used a RBD from one version of Covid, their vaccine generated a robust polyclonal response—meaning...

When the ancient Incas wanted to archive tax and census records, they used a device made up of a number...

“This is my life,” Wallach says. “There is nothing else I’d rather be doing. If I was given a billion...

The World Health Organization has declared the spread of monkeypox to be a "public health emergency of international concern", its...

Astronomers thought that galaxies in the early universe would mostly be shapeless blobs, but an analysis of data from the...

We know that air pollution is bad for our lungs and heart, but now advisers to the UK government say...

Taking a supplement of 30 grams of ‘resistant starch’ a day — about the amount in two slightly unripe bananas...

By Carissa Wong Variation in Tyrannosaurus rex fossils has led some to suggest that they aren’t all from the same...

A computer simulation found that some avalanches are caused by snow fracturing in a way similar to how fault planes...

Efforts to make flying greener mostly count carbon dioxide emissions only, but modelling shows this ignores 90 per cent of...

Wildfires burn hot, fast and unpredictably. Although wildland firefighters receive extensive training to keep themselves safe, they sometimes become cut...