Someday it may be possible for people to tackle their food allergies simply by brushing their teeth. A New York City–based company has launched a…
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The world wasted about 931 million metric tons of food in 2019 — an average of 121 kilograms per person. That’s about 17 percent of…
Here’s a scene guaranteed to melt the popular stereotype of Ice Age Neandertals as spear-wielding mammoth hunters confined to Eurasia’s frigid inner core. New illustrations…
When Isabel Hyman heads out in coming weeks to the wilds of northern New South Wales, she’s worried about what she won’t find. Fifteen years…
As the pace of coronavirus vaccinations picks up, normal life is looking tantalizingly in reach. Nearly a year after the World Health Organization declared the…
Losing your body from the neck down can be just another one of life’s annoying, but temporary, setbacks — at least for two kinds of…
Beloved BeastsMichelle NijhuisW.W. Norton & Co., $27.95 On October 29, 1929, a date best remembered for the infamous Black Tuesday stock market crash, socialite and…
In terms of difficulty, trapping a plasma is right up there with catching a cloud and pinning it down, or holding a moonbeam in your…
A smash hit In “A complete collection of cosmic smashups” (SN: 1/30/21, p. 30), Emily Conover and Nadieh Bremer visualized every gravitational wave event spotted…
Twenty years ago, the Human Genome Project unveiled the first map of humankind’s genetic instructions, an astonishing feat of technology that promised a future of…