As a mystery illness started spreading in China in late December, researchers at Inovio Pharmaceuticals were keeping a close eye …
Economic costs of rising seas will be steeper than we thought, unless we prepare
Rising seas that swamp cities and coastal infrastructure could cost the world more than 4 percent of the global economy …
Fossil fuel use may emit 40 percent more methane than we thought
Using fossil fuels releases much more of the potent greenhouse gas methane than previously thought — possibly 25 to 40 …
A new lizard parasite is the first known to move from mom to baby
For Nathalie Feiner, it was just another day in the lab. As part of her work on understanding how the …
Climate change is slowly drying up the Colorado River
Climate change is threatening to dry up the Colorado River — jeopardizing a water supply that serves some 40 million …
How African turquoise killifish press the pause button on aging
When the ponds where one African fish lives dry up, its offspring put their lives on pause. And now researchers …
The earliest known hominid interbreeding occurred 700,000 years ago
Ancestors of Neandertals and Denisovans left Africa for Eurasia around 700,000 years ago and then interbred with a Homo population …
Antimatter hydrogen has the same quantum quirk as normal hydrogen
Atoms of antimatter and matter are perfect mirror images, even when weird quantum phenomena come into play. The energy levels …
Molecular oxygen has been spotted beyond the Milky Way for the first time
For the first time, astronomers have found molecular oxygen — the same gas humans need to breathe — in a …
One blind, aquatic salamander may have sat mostly still for seven years
Once upon a time, olms knew the cool drizzle of rain and bathed in the glow of the sun. But …