Category Science & Discovery

“Elated beyond imagination.” That’s how Sandy Steers, executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley, says that she and the team of mostly volunteers are feeling after watching three eaglets hatch last week. These were the first eggs to successfully…

The swimming crab (Thalamita quadrilobata) consuming a juvenile crown-of-thorns sea star in an aquarium experiment. Credit: K Wolfe Small, hidden crabs may be the missing link influencing coral-eating starfish populations, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the…

Early this year, the US surgeon general issued a bombshell report. Before his term ended in January, Vivek Murthy warned that alcohol increases the risk of at least seven types of cancer and called for alcoholic drinks to carry cancer…

A subtype of avian influenza, known as H5N1, continues to spread among wildlife, dairy cows, domestic birds, and some pets in a string of global outbreaks that began in 2020. The highly pathogenic virus was first detected in U.S. wild…

Energex crews clear a fallen tree following the passage of tropical cyclone Alfred in Brisbane on March 8, 2025. Australian utilities raced Tuesday to reconnect more than 120,000 homes and businesses still blacked out by gales and floods that bashed…

Entries are now open for Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition. Capture a moment in your working day on camera for the chance to win a £500 cash prize (or local-currency equivalent) and the opportunity to see your winning image appear…

Project management is one of those skills that’s actually 20 different skills standing on each other’s shoulders in a trenchcoat. It’s complicated, but it’s also something employers really want you to be good at. Good thing there’s an app that…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth. Huge volcanoes erupted, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This destabilized…

In March last year, researchers found that among a group of nearly 300 participants, people who had higher concentrations of plastics in deposits of fat in their arteries (arterial plaques) were more likely to experience heart attacks or strokes, and…

I don’t know about you, but I feel a few steps behind every time we spring forward. So, after I reset all the clocks and finally got outside to test the Urtopia Carbon Fold 1 e-bike, I needed some musical…