Science&technology

The Pacific Northwest experienced a two-week-long heat wave in 2021, making it a record-breaking summer (SN: 7/7/21). However, tree ring ...

People who fly on long-haul flights and remain seated for extended periods can be at risk of developing dangerous blood clots, while hibe ...

PeriodKate ClancyPrinceton Univ., $27.95During a golf tournament in February, Tiger Woods handed a tampon ...

How do you know if the world’s largest living fish is expecting babies? Not by her bulging belly, it turns out.Scientists thought ...

Baseball, the world's best sport for number enthusiasts, has been the subject of extensive data collection, with its analysis even having ...

From a bird's-eye view, Gardi Sugdub Island appears to be a shipyard with brightly colored small dwellings squeezed together. On the grou ...

Yellow crazy ants break the rules of reproduction.Every male ant contains separate populations of cells from two distinct genetic ...

History has shown that civilizations do not last forever, as evidenced by the fall of the Aztecs, Maya, and the original Roman Empire. Fr ...

Scientists are beginning to understand how some beetles are able to "drink" using their butts. Red flour beetles, which are a major agric ...

Geometric salt polygons, such as pentagons and hexagons, form in playas all around the world. Dried mud, ice, and rock also crack into po ...

A long, cold stream of gas is feeding a very distant galaxy like a vast bendy straw. The finding suggests a new way for galaxies to grow ...

A new study shows that a tiny self-charging battery wrapped around a tumor could potentially boost the power of certain cancer therapies. ...

NOORDWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS — An astrophysicist at the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany, has reported that life could ar ...

In 1907, British explorer Arnold Henry Savage Landor wrote in his book about travel in Africa of witnessing an impromptu meal that his co ...