Flora make up the majority of Earth’s biomass, followed by bacteria | Continue reading
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The temblor occurred where one tectonic plate is diving beneath another | Continue reading
Analyzing over 500,000 cases suggests having female physicians in the emergency room may save women’s lives | Continue reading
300 to 400 physicians kill themselves each year | Continue reading
Against prevailing science, the agency is suggesting a “safe” threshold for particulate pollution | Continue reading
“Cosmos” comes from a Greek word for an orderly and systematic universe. We’ve learned a great deal about that order since Pythagoras used the term in the 6 th century B.C., but there are still many questions that defy our attempts at understanding. In this eBoo … | Continue reading
The extreme practice could put the island nation’s fish catch on a path toward sustainability | Continue reading
Nearing the end of its life, the spectacularly successful mission is still churning out new observations | Continue reading
Differences observed along the Cascadia fault explain why certain areas see more rumbling | Continue reading
The “Commercial Crew Nine” will fly to space in hardware made by Boeing and SpaceX | Continue reading
Moderating our sodium intake may help us maintain healthier gut flora, which is associated with healthier body weight. Who saw that coming? | Continue reading
Research casts doubt on the idea that a gene linked to language evolution is special to modern humans | Continue reading
The proposal to freeze fuel efficiency standards have dealt those efforts another setback | Continue reading
Birds become good at avoiding danger by eavesdropping on the alarm calls of other birds—and the learning occurs without even seeing their peers or predators. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Falling battery prices and foreign demand will keep the market going | Continue reading
The surprising insight could provide foundation for future cure | Continue reading
Forecasting technology and surfer experience create record rides on the planet’s biggest breakers | Continue reading
Conservationists are using behavior modification to help kangaroo mice, bears, elk and other critters survive | Continue reading
An analysis of the Hong Kong metro found that microbes, including some with antibiotic resistance genes, freshly disperse throughout the system each day. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
New discoveries offer hope for noise-induced hearing loss | Continue reading
The recent tragedies of Kate Spade’s and Anthony Bourdain’s suicides raised awareness of suicide as a mental health issue, but also generated a lot of misinformation | Continue reading
Why you should give the award to me | Continue reading
For the first time scientists have observed the gas giant sending magnetic waves back to its ring system and its moon Enceladus | Continue reading
Ancient relics confirm our solar system’s tempestuous origins | Continue reading
IoT devices often have weak security, making them prime targets for criminals looking to score digital cash | Continue reading
The surprising power of “hostile mediators” | Continue reading
Representative Bill Foster weighs in on the most important science issues facing the country | Continue reading
About five percent of crows will attempt to copulate with other crows that have joined the choir invisible . | Continue reading
Some physicists claim the popular landscape of universes in string theory may not exist | Continue reading
The U.S. was wrong to use health workers to target Osama bin Laden | Continue reading
Weather forecasters will soon provide instant assessments of global warming’s influence on extreme events | Continue reading
Departments face climate-driven changes to fire behavior, like a year-round season | Continue reading
Certain proteins that coordinate the healing response are present at higher levels in oral tissue—meaning wounds in the mouth fix faster. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Policymakers have tried, unsuccessfully, to change this law for decades | Continue reading
A new study suggests that human weight gain globally is not just bad for health but also bad for global warming | Continue reading
The genetics testing company and GlaxoSmithKline are using 5 million people’s data to develop medical treatments | Continue reading
Cheap natural gas and subsidized renewables make coal plants an expensive prospect | Continue reading
Coastal communities struggling to adapt to climate change are beginning to do what was once unthinkable: retreat | Continue reading
More than 2,500 scientists signed a letter saying that an expanded U.S.–Mexico border wall would threaten both biodiversity and scientific research. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
The strategy could also be used to aide Tasmanian devils and corals on the Great Barrier Reef | Continue reading
New analysis shows where fish transfers that can obscure illegal catches are happening | Continue reading
Researchers used a couple of hundred dollars worth of materials to turn a wall into a giant touchscreen. | Continue reading
Earth’s Moon may have once been habitable—but that does not mean it was ever inhabited | Continue reading
The extreme weather has planners concerned about conditions during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics | Continue reading
Marketing algorithms prevent many women from seeing the advertising, even though it’s illegal to target jobs to one gender | Continue reading
YouTube, Facebook and other sites are working together to find and delete extremist propaganda and recruiting videos, but a new study says they can do better | Continue reading
You probably do not understand yourself as well as you think you do | Continue reading