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Climate experts at the UK’s Met Office said there’s “no doubt” climate change is playing a role in the heatwave, assuring it’s making summer heatwaves five times more likely and significantly more intense.
A brave star and a supermassive black hole confirm Einstein's theory of general relativity.
These are among the best images of this kind.
The device attaches itself to the throat like a temporary tattoo and can convert skin movements into sounds.
The American Southwest was left bone-dry between the 9th and 15th centuries by about a dozen megadroughts; they could be coming back.
"All organisms share the same injury response pathway but in some organisms like hydra, it leads to regeneration," the team explains. They're working on finding out why, and how to copy it.
What a great initiative!
Sharks are in great peril, and it's because of us.
Are trees superorganisms?
"It just blows me away that regardless of how evolutionarily-different skin structures in animals are, they still use the same collection of genes during development."
We might not be the unique species we like to consider ourselves.
"It's alarming to find that the majority of videos propagate conspiracy theories about climate science and technology."
What we experience sometimes doesn't fit with what we think about ourselves -- keeping a first-person perspective helps cut through that.
It's a remarkable communication and adaptation mechanism.
This is good news.
Too clean is not necessarily a good thing.
Marijuana has anti-inflammatory molecules which could be used in a new class of painkillers.
Finally, the Orion capsule is now complete and ready for tests involving humans slated in 2023.
Organic farmers, rejoice!
"The need to focus on nonprescription antibiotic use in community-based antimicrobial stewardship programs is urgent," the authors report.
An aggressive strain of drug-resistant malaria that originated in Cambodia has rapidly spread into neighboring countries.
Physicists at CERN probed exotic subatomic particles -- and found some unexpected results.
Ever wanted to feel a marsquake?
It's a stern reminder that we are changing the face of the planet.
Autocratic leaderships tend to negatively affect a country's economy and public services.
Yet another consequence of global warming rears its ugly head.
Taking theft to the next level.
For the younger generation, Sunday nights are filled with anxiety over the upcoming workweek.
We need the world to produce more fruits and veggies -- and we need to convince people to eat more of them.
This could revolutionize how heart valves are produced.
The new study explains why our galaxy doesn't travel with the expansion of the universe.
It's one of the first times this type of burial will be analyzed with novel equipment and techniques.
The study might help scientists understand how galaxies evolve.
Daily aspirin used to be sound advice for decades -- but not anymore.
"The resulting plants would grow larger and need less water and fertilizer, for instance," say the authors.
Scientists dial in on some factors that make people prone to heart attacks.
States with higher gun ownership had much higher rates of domestic gun homicides. There were no "significant differences for nondomestic firearm homicide rates,” the authors add.
Please don't litter cigarette butts!
It definitely can't hurt your chances.
It's adorable and quite harmless.
Are you using water sustainably?
Drug overdosing is still a huge healthcare problem in the US -- but at least there now seems to be light at the end of the tunnel.
Money always talks -- and it's talking renewable.
Magnets used to be rigid -- not anymore.
Fake meat is not just a fad.
Do you think it was tasty, too?
They track the CO2 you breathe out.
Who's 'we' though?
Probably the largest genocide you probably haven't heard about.
During the Cold War the United States dropped nearly 70 nuclear bombs on some tiny islands in the middle of the Pacific.
