Category Science & Discovery

Growing plants can be a joyous, yet frustrating process as plants require a delicate balance of nutrients, sun, and water to be productive. Phosphorus and nitrogen, which are essential for plant growth, are often supplemented by chemical fertilizers to assure…

Dog boops. Cat boops. Sea lion boops? You bet. A young South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens) approaches divers off the coast of the West Falkland Islands, curious about the the human visitors. He playfully pokes and boops the divers,…

An abandoned house sits in sand near Chinguetti, Mauritania on Jan. 13, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Khaled Moulay For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a dozen libraries containing thousands…

Donald Trump took office as US president for the second time one month ago.Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty In the wake of the Second World War, US leaders adopted the view that scientific progress is an “essential key to our security as…

A new vaccine that boosts immunity against tuberculosis (TB) has been shown to be effective in pioneering pre-clinical trials, as part of a successful collaboration between three leading Australian research institutions. A study into the vaccine’s effectiveness, published in eBioMedicine,…

The Great Wall of China wasn’t a single construction project, but rather a series of defensive and border fortifications linked over hundreds of years under the direction of multiple royal dynasties. Recent archeological discoveries in the nation’s Shandong Province, however,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 percent, according to new calculations from NASA. The drop in odds…

The AI analyses gene sequences linked to receptors on the surface of B cells (pictured) and T cells. Credit: Eye Of Science/Science Photo Library Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can diagnose a range of infections and…

Rapid, localized heat management is essential for electronic devices and could have applications ranging from wearable materials to burn treatment. While so-called thermoelectric materials convert temperature differences to electrical voltage and vice versa, their efficiency is often limited, and their…

If there’s one thing baseball fans are averse to, it’s change. Over the MLB’s 149-year history, alterations to the game’s rules, like lowering the pitcher’s mound (1968) or introducing instant replay challenges (2014) came only after years of heated debate…