You’d think that it would be simple to determine if someone is dead. But making the call can be fraught, especially when there are cultural,…
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Probing the sun Neutrinos produced in the sun’s core could shed light on how much of the sun is composed of elements heavier than helium,…
Earth faces two interrelated crises: accelerating loss of biodiversity and climate change. Both are worsened by human development of natural lands that would otherwise allow…
A dodder plant begins its life looking like a tapeworm. The tiny plant, which will never grow leaves or roots, elongates in a spindly spiral.…
Gene editing to make heritable changes in human DNA isn’t yet safe and effective enough to make gene-edited babies, an international scientific commission says. But…
In one of the most complex cosmic dances astronomers have yet spotted, three rings of gas and dust circle a trio of stars. The star…
Sea ice in the Bering Sea, on the southern margin of the Arctic Ocean, dwindled to its smallest wintertime expanse in 5,500 years in 2018,…
In June, a large study in the United Kingdom suggested that the steroid dexamethasone could help reduce the risk of death for critically ill COVID-19…
Going bottom-up is no problem for a boat on the underside of a levitated liquid. In a container, liquid can be levitated over a layer…
The biggest. The farthest. The most energetic. A new detection of gravitational waves from two colliding black holes has racked up multiple superlatives. What’s more,…