Coronavirus infections in part of the United Kingdom have rapidly taken center stage in the COVID-19 pandemic after researchers identified a variant of the virus…
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Today, airplanes pump a lot of climate-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But someday, carbon dioxide sucked from the atmosphere could be used to power…
As if 2020 needed an extra disaster, the year also brought us “murder hornets.” When two Asian giant hornets (Vespa mandarinia) were spotted in Washington…
Humankind’s growing need for food is running up against thousands of other species’ need for space. By 2050, humans may need to clear an additional…
2020 was a year of unremitting extreme climate events, from heat waves to wildfires to hurricanes, many of which scientists have directly linked to human-caused…
A second coronavirus vaccine has now joined the fight against COVID-19 in the United States. On December 18, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized…
Bonobos display responsibility toward grooming partners akin to that of people working together on a task, a new study suggests. Until now, investigations have shown…
In these waning days of December, last January seems very far away. Our family calendar for that month still speaks of what was then normal…
As 2020 blessedly clangs to a close, it’s tempting to wonder where we’re headed once the pandemic is history. In the spirit of year-end curiosity…
In 2008, miners off the coast of Namibia stumbled upon buried treasure: a sunken Portuguese ship known as the Bom Jesus, which went missing on…