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On one hand, northwest India needs to tackle groundwater depletion. On the other hand, air pollution claimed the lives of almost 1.1 million Indians in 2015, and costs 3% of the country's gross domestic product, according to the study.
Spacecraft pushed by photons might someday take us to other stars.
Take away the proteins, and our immune systems decimate cancers.
Careful, they might be watching us.
"It's a clear demonstration that parthenolide has the potential to progress from the flowerbed into the clinic," they report.
A mother was incredibly invested considering she adopted an orphan from a different species and genus.
The Komodo dragon is an awesome predator -- and now scientists have discovered its genetic secrets.
Printing electronic circuits on a flower never looked so appealing.
Tobacco smoking represents the leading preventable cause of death worldwide. We just realized it's even worse than we thought.
Soon, NASA will launch a new rover to Mars where it'll have to do a lot of heavy lifting.
A new way to produce electricity.
It's twice more common than previous CDC estimates.
Don't let your brain put real-life information into math problems.
Where there's movement, there's energy. There's enough 'blue energy' to power thousands of American homes.
Balding could soon be a thing of the past -- if you're wealthy enough.
The authors studied where ivory is sold and for how much -- in a bid to nip poaching at the market stall.
We have an instinctive understanding that The Boss should fix injustice in the group.
Food enjoyment might be a key clue in understanding obesity.
Using sound, rather than light, could lead to more efficient and more compact quantum computers.
They didn't seem to care about anything other than cooling down.
If this is true, it's very good news.
However, simple infection control procedures can go a long way to mitigate the risk.
The planet is so close to its host star that it only has a 5.36 day-long orbit. At this distance, surface temperatures should hover around 428 Kelvin (155 °C; 311 °F).
We've learned so much about Mars, but pressing questions still remain.
Eat less processed food!
Trade makes us all richer!
The solar system is very different from our own.
The huge bone belonged to one of the largest creatures to ever walk on land.
Climate crisis.
Cold case: solved.
"We might think of different scenarios where people aren't motivated like depression and block these neurons and receptors to help them feel better," the authors explain.
"This [study] shows that more research is needed into the efficiency of different water treatment methods for antibiotic removal, as none of the treatments currently used were designed to incorporate this," says lead author Dr. Lena Ciric.
Almost two-thirds (61%) of respondents said the Conservative Government led by Johnson is not doing enough to prioritize climate actions.
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.
