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The national dietary guidelines of Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, and Slovenia are sustainable.
World needs to increase its climate action five times
A new theory suggests that planets could form in dense dust and gas clouds surrounding supermassive black holes at the centre of active galaxies.
Give it up for the most resilient storm in our solar system.
Spoiler alert: things are not looking too good.
Nicotine trigers both aversion and pleasure in the brain. By targetting neurons responsible for aversion to nicotine, it could be possible to design very effective smoking cessation drugs.
Late-blooming prairies can provide a much-needed respite to farm bees.
A biblical-like ancient snake is revealing new insights into snake evolution.
Songs from cultures around the world have similar patterns
As Hippocrates once said “People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don’t have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it’s divine.” Four of the hardest words to process are “you’ve had a seizure.” […]
An entire school district in Colorado shut down in the face of norovirus outbreaks.
Can an island just close down for a few days in order to preserve its ecosystems? Apparently so.
A letter signed by 2,500 scientists pleads for more sustainable agricultural practices. They call on policymakers “to act on the science, and undertake a far-reaching reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) without delay.” It’s not just the bees In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, there was no unified agricultural integration in […]
One of NASA's most forgotten missions to the moon, but also one of the funniest
Heavy industries could replace fossil fuels with a new solar technology.
Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but generally, don't trust the government when your country is burning.
While most of the world says goodbye to coal, China keeps opening new plants
The Reef is bloody, but unbowed.
Let's face it, 1 for 7 years is not accurate.
This was the first time such a behavior was observed in insects and may represent a unique adaptation to bees.
Very, very probably wrong.
Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world. Its terrain alternates between mountains and rolling plateaus, with tundra and green plains in between. Many Mongolians also maintain a pastoral lifestyle, for which the mountainous zones provide crucial support. For the reindeer-herding Tsaatan people, “eternal ice” (the so-called munkh mus) offers much-needed support to […]
Only 122 satellites have already been launched and the impact is already evident, they claim.
This immense simulation is so complex that scientists have observed phenomena that had not been programmed explicitly in the code.
The longer trend is clear: the Earth is feverish.
The emissions of Bitcoin are on par with those of Croatia or Estonia.
Every day, more than 141 billion liters of water are used to flush.
Wild mammals living near agriculture fields were found to change their diets.
This is one of the most important findings of the decade.
Birds of a feather flock together... but how do they decide where to go and who to follow?
The city of Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow, will have its next sunrise on January 23rd, 2020.
The researchers caution that this doesn't mean that they can reverse Down's syndrome in humans.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is again under the spotlight after this year's forest fires
Tasty science: researchers tested 56 broths, and a few of them showed antimalarial properties in vitro, interrupting the lifecycle of the most deadly of the malarial parasites, Plasmodium falciparum.
The koloa's genome is well expressed and diverse -- which is good news for many other species in Hawaii and beyond.
Doctors say this is a cautionary tale for everyone who uses feather duvets
The teeth were in perfect health when they were drilled for ornamentation purposes more than 8,000 years ago.
The new insight could lead to better cochlear implants.
We should do more with less. Nature needs it.
This month alone, two of the US largest coal plants shut down.
Titan is a lot like the Earth... except it's nothing like the Earth.
"There's an app for that" has never been more relevant.
California says it won't buy any cars from GM, Toyota, or any car manufacturers that don't implement strict emission standards.
Pulling billions out of poverty and stabilizing climate change aren't necessarily at odds.
Researchers found that the Zika virus interrupts the growth of the brain by taking control of a pathway that regulates the generation of new neurons.
You’ve seen the Impossible Whopper, but does this mean we’ll have cultured meat in supermarkets soon?
Venice is facing dramatic the worst floods in over 50 years.
Astronomers have identified a runaway star travelling at an incredible 6 million kilometres per hour, ejected by the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy 5 million years ago.
The underground nuclear test was 17 times more powerful than the bomb dropped by the US over Hiroshima at the end of WWII.
The mystery of how complex carbon molecules--buckyballs-- came to be detected in interstellar space may have been solved.
