Air pollution in large cities can damage your lungs as much as ‘smoking one pack a day’
Long-term exposure to all major air pollutants is linked with higher incidence of lung damage.
Melting Antarctic ice can ‘significantly’ delay climate heating in Southern Hemisphere
The trade-off, of course, is an 80 cm-higher global sea level.
Climate warming responsible for West Antarctic Ice Sheet melting
"This is the first evidence for a direct link between human activities and the loss of ice from West Antarctica."
Mosquito salivary glands could hold the secret to containing malaria forever
There are chitin walls in the insects' salivary glands that block 90% of the parasites from infecting a new host.
The first symptom of Alzheimer’s is excessive sleepiness
Luckily it's not the only one because I already have it. Double helpings.
Researchers looking for dark matter fail, find gold instead
But, remember kids, the real treasure was the friends they made along the way.
Hubble snaps breathtaking new image of Jupiter
Looks tasty, honestly.
Devastated Fukushima nuclear plant will run out of storage space for radioactive water in three years
With the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo fast approaching, the government doesn't want to rock the boat too much and...
Human-driven extinction cost New Zealand 50 million years’ worth of bird evolution
Losses include but are not limited to those giant eagles at the end of Lord of the Rings.
Neonicotinoid pesticides pose ‘a major danger to pollinating insects’
Bad news for bees.
Warmer climate will make for more air turbulence, bumpier flights
Hold on to your passport!
Animals can experience post-traumatic stress disorder from exposure to predators
"Our findings support both the notion that PTSD is not unnatural, and that long-lasting effects of predator-induced fear with likely...
Robotic, seahorse-inspired tail can help people maintain balance through sickness or hard work
Cosplay enthusiasts rejoice!
Some seagulls will steal your food unless you stare them in the eyes
It's like a game of chicken where the winner gets to eat your chips.
First lab-grown mini livers will allow researchers to study the organ, its diseases, and treatments
"I imagine in the future we can make human livers where you can order what kind of function you want,...
Scientists create the thinnest gold plates ever, just two atoms thick
All of the bling, none of the volume.
Wildfires lock away a ‘considerable amount of carbon’ for centuries, or even millennia
I'll admit it -- I did not expect this.
Unusual hepatitis B virus found in shrews could help us tackle chronic hepatitis B
"Since the virus cannot infect human liver cells, it is highly unlikely that the virus can infect people."
Fossil Friday: tiny tooth belonged to the smallest monkey ever found
Size isn't everything.
Reducing air pollution levels won’t cause a spike in climate heating
So let's clean it up.
New “bone spackling” that can fix injuries with a simple injection shows promise in mice
Sticks and stones may break your bones but this thing will fix'em right up.
Air pollution levels rise by 30% in India as farmers align to new groundwater depletion policy
On one hand, northwest India needs to tackle groundwater depletion. On the other hand, air pollution claimed the lives of...
Discovery of new “don’t eat me protein” points the way to effective cancer therapy
Take away the proteins, and our immune systems decimate cancers.
Birmingham University researchers extract cancer-killing drug from common flower
"It's a clear demonstration that parthenolide has the potential to progress from the flowerbed into the clinic," they report.
The price of ivory is up 1,000% since global ban on ivory trade, but is slowly decreasing
The authors studied where ivory is sold and for how much -- in a bid to nip poaching at the...
Infants expect leaders to right wrongs, and are surprised when they don’t
We have an instinctive understanding that The Boss should fix injustice in the group.
Hospitals in Europe are contributing to the spread of extremely drug-resistant bacteria
However, simple infection control procedures can go a long way to mitigate the risk.
NASA finds new exoplanet that orbits three different suns
The planet is so close to its host star that it only has a 5.36 day-long orbit. At this distance,...
The Vikings’ Bronze Age relied on imported metal, new study finds
Trade makes us all richer!
Researchers identify neurons that shut down rewards and motivation in the brains of mice
"We might think of different scenarios where people aren't motivated like depression and block these neurons and receptors to help...
London’s waterways found to contain antibiotic-resistant bacterial genes
"This shows that more research is needed into the efficiency of different water treatment methods for antibiotic removal, as none...
Climate change may bring “megadroughts” back to the US Southwest
The American Southwest was left bone-dry between the 9th and 15th centuries by about a dozen megadroughts; they could be...
Researchers map the genetic mechanisms that makes hydras ‘immortal’
"All organisms share the same injury response pathway but in some organisms like hydra, it leads to regeneration," the team...
Pufferfish spines and the hair on your head are governed by the same set of genes
"It just blows me away that regardless of how evolutionarily-different skin structures in animals are, they still use the same...
YouTube conspiracy theorists dominate climate science content by hijacking search terms
"It's alarming to find that the majority of videos propagate conspiracy theories about climate science and technology."
If you want to find your passion, keep a first-person perspective on life
What we experience sometimes doesn't fit with what we think about ourselves -- keeping a first-person perspective helps cut through...
Use of antibiotics without a prescription is an understudied but serious issue in the US
"The need to focus on nonprescription antibiotic use in community-based antimicrobial stewardship programs is urgent," the authors report.
Researchers identify gene that makes plants and fungi play nice — we’ll use it to make better crops
"The resulting plants would grow larger and need less water and fertilizer, for instance," say the authors.
Every 10% increase in gun ownership raises domestic gun homicides by 13%
States with higher gun ownership had much higher rates of domestic gun homicides. There were no "significant differences for nondomestic...
A warm bath 1-2 hours before bedtime helps improve sleep quality, meta-analysis shows
It definitely can't hurt your chances.
Clean money, clean energy — a look at investment patterns in the energy sector
Money always talks -- and it's talking renewable.
Fossil Friday: researchers discover new, ancient relative of the tilapia
Do you think it was tasty, too?
Mosquitoes hunt first by smell, then by eyesight
They track the CO2 you breathe out.
Water from thin air: a look at how rain and precipitation forms
There are a lot of elements that come together to 'make it rain'. Both in nature and in the club.
Bee sting vaccine successfully passes human trials in Australia
If you're allergic to bee venom, this vaccine is for you.
Analysis of 19 million cats shows how our pets’ weight evolves throughout their lifetimes
"As humans, we know we need to strive to maintain a healthy weight, but for cats, there has not been...
Vikings cut down all of Iceland’s forests — the country is planting them anew
Since 2015, Iceland has planted around 1,000 hectares of forest (between three and four million trees).
Study reveals true scale of one of the world’s deadliest plagues
"We now have a pathogen whose molecular history we can follow for thousands of years," says paper co-author McCormick. "The...
Grasshoppers, silkworms, giant cicadas are a good source of antioxidants — if you eat them
"In the future, we might also adapt dietary regimens for insect rearing in order to increase their antioxidant content for...