Indigenous Bolivian Amazon dwellers are helping to bolster recent findings that normal body temperature, around 37° Celsius, or 98.6° Fahrenheit, might not be so normal…
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Clouds may be ecosystems — Science News, November 14, 1970 Clouds in the sky may contain living microbial ecosystems…. [Research] determined that metabolic activity, in the…
Mars’ water is being skimmed off the top. NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft found water lofted into Mars’ upper atmosphere, where its hydrogen and oxygen atoms are…
When one of Hye-Sook Park’s experiments goes well, everyone nearby knows. “We can hear Hye-Sook screaming,” she’s heard colleagues say. It’s no surprise that she…
The atmospheric light show nicknamed STEVE may be even weirder than skywatchers thought. STEVE, short for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement, is a sky glow…
Atlantic hurricanes are taking longer to weaken after making landfall than they did 50 years ago, thanks to climate change. Over the past 50 years,…
Some immune defenses of the brain may have their roots in the gut. A new study in mice finds that immune cells are first trained…
November is beginning to feel a lot like last March. In Europe, where the coronavirus was largely under control for much of the summer and…
It’s official: 2020 now has the most named storms ever recorded in the Atlantic in a single year. On November 9, a tropical disturbance brewing…
Just how hot is your chili pepper? A new chili-shaped device could quickly signal whether adding the pepper to a meal might set your mouth…