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Hospital floors are full of bacteria, posing a risk to patients' health

Better watch where you step-- or even what you touch -- in a hospital.

Fossil Friday: leg fragment points to huge, toothy bird with a wingspan of up to 21 feet

Imagine how many nuggets you could make from one of these.

Giving up the Ghost: Science Takes on the Supernatural

This Halloween, you are invited to spend the evening in a haunted house with a difference. At ZME Manor the supernatural meets the scientific. Which will survive? And what will be left of it?

Growing food with Martian soil is challenging but it's not impossible

Geologists mimicked conditions in soil from Mars and found growing plants could prove difficult.

Taiwan just went 200 days without a single domestic coronavirus case

No other place has reached such a milestone.

Common fabrics can make effective masks against the viral particles, but they're harder to breathe through

You should be well protected if you use a home-made face mask.

Google-Alphabet balloon breaks record for longest flight in the stratosphere

It spent 312 days in the air.

Let more big fish sink -- it can help tackle climate change

Ocean fishing releases a lot of CO2 that would otherwise be locked on the sea floor.

Big-eyed spiders that cast nets like gladiators can hear prey despite lacking ears

These freaky looking spiders can sense incoming prey from more than two meters away.

Recycling smartphones: yes, it's a thing. Here's what you need to know

With Black Friday and the winter holidays just around the corner, we’re in no short supply of good deals during this time of the year. Many people around the world (myself included) will take advantage of these and swap in their phones for a newer model. Granted, with the way 2020 has been going, it’s […]

Melting caused by global warming creates more melt and it's a dangerous vicious cycle

Less ice means more melt which means less ice.

For some wild mammals, home is now your backyard, not the forest

People often provide food and shelter that these animals have learned to use.

Astronomers scout metal-rich asteroid thought to be worth 10,000 quadrillion dollars

Its astronomical value is another reason why we should invest more in space.

Modern graffiti leads scientists to 27,000-year-old cave art in Spain

The Gravettian art culture famous for stone age Venus statues was more widespread than previously thought.

Gourmet pterosaurs constantly improved their flight -- until they were wiped out by killer asteroid

These flying reptiles dominated the skies until they were wiped out by a killer asteroid.

Lenders are 'bankrolling extinction': businesses linked to biodiversity destruction took $2.6 trillion in loans last year

Money matters. A lot.

New mesothelioma treatment involves tiny tubes of gold and lasers

Killing cancer with style.

A medieval scribe curses a cat for peeing on his manuscript

Cats ruining things: a tale as old as time.

They took our jobs... but we're okay with it? AI-related job growth linked to improved social welfare

Well, this is unexpected.

Aerosol microdroplets aren't very good at carrying COVID-19, new laser study shows

The risk is real, but not very large, researchers say.

Better health care can help prevent tropical deforestation

An accessible health clinic for communities in Indonesia helped bring down local deforestation rates.

Stronger, longer-lasting perovskite solar panels could be on the way

This could mean less pollution and cheaper energy for us all

Another study connects COVID-19 to a lack of Vitamin D

80% of COVID-19 patients have vitamin D deficiency, a Spanish study found, compared to 40% for the general population

The Mediterranean Sea is packed with plastic waste and it could get worse soon

We need to take action to protect the Mediterranean from plastic waste.

Even vampire bats social distance when they get sick

The COVID-19 pandemic has taught millions of people across the world at least one valuable lesson: the single most important thing that one can do to stave off the spread of an infectious disease is to practice social distancing. As long as infected hosts are in limited contact with healthy hosts, a pathogen can’t spread […]

The mystery of coronavirus loss of smell may be rooted in the brain

Changes in the metabolism of sugar in the brain may be responsible for the characteristic loss of sense of smell.

NASA finds water in cold traps on the moon -- and it could sustain a lunar base

The moon is much wetter than we thought -- not one, but two papers show it.

The pandemic winter wave is well and truly upon us

Winter is coming, and with it, the scenario epidemiologists were fearing: pandemic fatigue and a global surge of cases.

World's smallest boat is so tiny it could sail inside of a human hair

It's super cute, too!

If all Americans wore masks, 130,000 lives could be saved

We're probably headed for a grim winter, a new study concludes. But there are ways to alleviate that.

Water Found on the Moon's Sunlit Surface

NASA has announced that water is more common on the Moon than previously believed, with traces now discovered at its sunlit Lunar South Pole. This is an area that has been traditionally considered free of water.

Recycling is important. It's also overrated. Here's what truly makes a dent in environmental pollution

Always remember the 3Rs: reduce, reuse, and recycle. But in this order!

Old used cars are being exported to poor nations, increasing air pollution and traffic collisions

Most of them are being shipped to countries with weak regulation.

New ceramic catalyst sponge promises to turn waste organic matter into cheap biofuel, medicine

Don’t throw away that rancid oil, we can top up the car with it!

NASA's asteroid sampling mission ran into a problem: they sampled too much asteroid

Suffering from success.

Japan, the sixth-largest emitter, pledges to become carbon neutral by 2050

Question still remain on how this target will be met.

These are the droids we're looking for: A new robot can assemble a pizza in under a minute

The aptly named PizzaBot 5000 can crank out pizzas all day long.

Book Review: "Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral & Drive Major Economic Events"

Could economies be driven by what people believe, not by cold facts? One book says “probably”.

Huge tanker at risk of collapse in the Caribbean -- officials say situation is "stable"

It has 1.3 million barrels of oil crude, which could harm important ecosystems

Electromagnetic fields treat type 2 diabetes in mice

A unique project suggests that diabetes could one day be treated by electromagnetic fields.

Cat genome unveiled in unprecedented detail -- new treatments on the horizon

Among the findings, researchers report discovering a gene responsible for cat dwarfism.

Researchers identify the exoplanets that can see the Earth is inhabited

Are we alone in the universe? We don’t know. But, according to a new paper, we now have a map on “where to look first”. There are at least 1,000 Earth-like exoplanets close enough and in the right position to see that the Earth is habitable, a new paper explains. All these candidates are within […]

Electric cars will likely be as cheap as regular ones by 2024

Cost isn't the only barrier to overcome, but its a good place to start.

Scientists resurrect mysterious missing tectonic plate beneath Canada

A long-debated missing tectonic plate beneath Northern Canada has been confirmed with 3D mapping technology.

It's not just a health concern: air pollution is costing European citizens $190 billion per year

Reducing air pollution should be the priority of European cities.

We should expect long-term ice loss even if we stop climate change today, according to a new study

Sometimes, there's just no putting the paste back in the tube -- or the ice back in the ice sheet.

FDA approves first Ebola treatment

An important step forward in the fight to eradicate Ebola.

One-eyed, baby albino shark might be the product of climate change

The fishermen who caught the bizarre creature were left speechless.

World's largest solar farm will produce 10GW of power in Australia -- but most of it will end up in Singapore

The solar farm is so huge it will be easily visible from space.