Category Science

Before administering anesthesia, clinicians carefully evaluate a patient’s overall health, physiology, and medical history to determine the safest and most effective approach. Still, beyond factors like age or body weight,…

A high point of the Greenland ice sheet may be more sensitive to rising temperatures than previously thought, suggests a new study. The research, published in Nature Geosciences, took samples…

Living past 110 is rare. Remaining mentally sharp and physically independent at that age is rarer still. Yet a small number of people — known as supercentenarians — do exactly…

There are times when the red supergiant star Betelgeuse looks slightly amiss, becoming dimmer than usual. Emerging data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is now suggesting that this mysterious change…

Greenland sharks are among the longest-lived vertebrates ever identified, with some individuals estimated to be several centuries old. They inhabit some of the darkest waters on Earth, deep in the…

At certain hot spots on the sun’s surface, plasma interacts with magnetic fields to whip up solar storms that careen toward Earth. These active regions can’t be observed from Earth…

Far from being defenceless, plants have acquired all kinds of weird and wacky ways to protect themselves against pests and predators. Some, according to a study in the Journal of…

Astronomers studying the early universe have identified a galaxy cluster that appears far hotter — and far more energetic — than current theories say it should be. To spot it,…

Common self-sabotaging and self-harming practices, such as procrastination, perfectionism, or ghosting others, may appear destructive and purposeless, but may actually have a logical evolutionary explanation. Outlined in more detail in…

From the cliffs of the Shiretoko Peninsula, killer whales are a familiar sight. Pods surface offshore, drawing tourists to one of Japan’s most celebrated wildlife destinations and anchoring the region’s…