With humankind focused on surviving the SARS-CoV-2 virus, I find it oddly reassuring to think about other deadly foes we’ve faced. Some, like the virus…
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Birds of a fossil feather Four-winged Microraptor, perhaps one of the earliest flying dinosaurs, may have molted just a bit at a time — similar…
When Nigerian physician Garba Iliyasu was 10, a venomous snake bit a family member. The man survived, but “it was quite severe,” Iliyasu recalls. “[He]…
The specter of a “twindemic” — two epidemics at the same time — looms as cold and flu season is set to start in October…
Acrid smoke continues to pollute skies in the western United States. On some recent days, the air quality in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Los…
Amoebic killers — Science News, September 19, 1970 A fearsome [disease] has been recognized in recent years, produced by a one-cell organism…. Mercifully, human invasion…
Footprints discovered at what was once a rain-fed lake in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert suggest that humans on the move made a pit stop there…
Footprints discovered at what was once a rain-fed lake in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert suggest that humans on the move made a pit stop there…
Sound waves traveling thousands of kilometers through the ocean may help scientists monitor climate change. As greenhouse gas emissions warm the planet, the ocean is…
Sound waves traveling thousands of kilometers through the ocean may help scientists monitor climate change. As greenhouse gas emissions warm the planet, the ocean is…