Category Science

As much as it might seem that diseases like COVID-19 appear from nowhere, most illnesses that affect humans have been cooking for a very long time. They have infected and…

Although wildfires are a natural and recurring phenomenon in certain regions, climate change is intensifying their impact. Each year, fires now swallow around four percent of Earth’s land surface, leaving…

Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens Earth. Instead, updated calculations show about a 4.3 percent chance that the 60-meter-wide rock could strike the Moon on Dec. 22, 2032, at a…

At the edge of a lake in what is now southern Greece, early humans once butchered elephants while large carnivores circled nearby. Buried in the lakebed mud, alongside stone tools…

Polar bears have come to symbolize the cost of a warming Arctic. As sea ice retreats, the platform they rely on to hunt prey disappears, and bears are expected to…

The mayor of Niscemi, a small town in Sicily, ordered the evacuation of more than 1,500 people after days of torrential rain triggered a massive landslide on January 25, 2026.…

By the end of December 2025, I felt locked into “streaks” on several social media apps. My language-learning app cheered me on to a five-year streak. Reddit gave me a…

It can happen when you’re an adolescent and when you’re an adult, but no matter when acne rears its ugly head, it can be stressful and make you feel self-conscious.…

London, UK – Thursday 29 January 2026 Digital Science and Silverchair have partnered to further support research integrity for publishers by integrating the Dimensions Author Check API into ScholarOne Manuscripts…

When a new infectious disease begins to spread, delays carry consequences. During the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines reached the public faster than ever before, but even that effort depended on complex…