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A total 4,281 square miles of forest were cleared in the 12 months leading to August.
We absolutely need this if we're to ever establish a colony on the Red Planet.
They're already up and running in China, and could expand elsewhere.
The project will have three phases and will power up six million homes per year
Nowadays, we aren't nearly as sturdy, the researchers report.
The billions of liters of fresh water were discovered with electrical surveys.
After its 150 anniversary, the famous chemical table might be getting a makeover.
Get ready to see some breathtaking photos from the natural world.
Neanderthal thumbs were better adapted to holding tools with handles, a new study found.
Surprisingly, trees are dropping their leaves sooner rather than later.
Pills coated with the substance could navigate through the body using magnets.
Glow-in-the-dark wombats make 2020 just a bit more bearable.
A tidal disruption in a distant galaxy could explain its lack of dark matter, to the relief of many physicists, Hubble observations reveal.
It has over a million entries!
More than half of the people in a survey didn't know about the link
A secondary nuclear fusion process first proposed 30 years ago has now been confirmed by scientists in Italy.
Study found keyhole wasps blocked pitot probes in Brisbane Airport
There's no safe level of exposure to asbestos, a carcinogenic
The 1,900-year-old mummy may have been royalty.
Early Mars may have gone through global megafloods, but was it habitable?
Clean air is good news for everyone!
Don't breathe in.
The boulder-like object has resumed its journey around the sun, but many other minimoons are waiting to be discovered.
Geologically speaking, Ireland is not conducive to finding dinosaur fossils.
The 10 billion-year-old fossil was named Heracles after the Greek Hero who was made immortal when the Milky Way was born.
Leaf-cutter ant workers have a magnesium-rich biomineral armor that you'd expect to see in crustaceans rather than insects.
It looks a bit like a dog house, doesn't it?
You'd think everyone is eager to get on with their post-pandemic lives as quickly as possible. Well, not really.
The cognitive enhancing effects were seen in healthy individuals so those experiencing cognitive decline may reap even more benefits.
Now that's what I call delayed action!
If you want to reduce plastic pollution, southeast Asia is the perfect place to start.
It worked for a time, but a more sustained effort is needed -- for our own sakes.
Glowing is always in fashion.
Climate change is affecting the oceans, increasing acidification
Microplastics have been discovered from the depths of the ocean all the way to the highest mountain on Earth.
Hint: you can't see it with the naked eye.
A procedure that has been routinely used to treat scuba divers suffering from decompression sickness may reverse aging and extend our lifespans.
North America has by far the greatest bee diversity.
Paper cups have a plastic layer, which release microplastics when in touch with hot water
The pandemic has brought a wide disruption to many sectors, but public transportation has probably been one of the most affected. The collective nature of its mobility has made governments largely limit their use, and many people avoided it even when it was available. Still, the impact hasn’t been equal to all cities, a new […]
Both neural and galactic networks have the same structure, pointing to a fractal universe.
A new method creates diamonds in the lab in just minutes and at room temperature.
Not long after Pfizer and BioNTech announced in a press release that their COVID-19 vaccine candidate has over 90% efficacy, British politicians began discussing an imminent roll-out – before Christmas, according to health minister Matt Hancock. On the other side of the English Channel, France is also poised to roll out the vaccine, only in […]
It's the most optimistic scenario we have for vaccine development.
It lies 6,300 light-years away in the constellation Hercules. Now, we finally know its story.
With electric scooters being increasingly popular in cities, it's worth also having a look at mobility scooters.
Immersing ourselves in nature can help tackle some of the stress of the pandemic.
Reserchers are increasingly calling for frequent flyer taxes.
Mothballed on NASA’s shelves were the plans to view stars 13 billion years in the past. Now, a group of astronomers from the University of Texas at Austin want to dust off ideas for a moon-based telescope and try to put them to good use. The project was first tabled more than a decade ago […]
The stretchable sensors might make VR feel more real.
