With acrobatic leaps, Hainan gibbons can cross a great gully carved by a 2014 landslide in the forest on China’s Hainan Island. But when a…
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A few minutes in the microwave made a common insecticide about 10 times more lethal to mosquitoes in lab experiments. Deltamethrin toxin is used worldwide…
Consumers have long turned to vitamins and herbs to try to protect themselves from disease. This pandemic is no different — especially with headlines that…
A large international study has found that remdesivir, an antiviral drug that was the first to combat COVID-19, does not reduce deaths from disease. The…
Set to music, telescope observations from the center of the Milky Way create a calm, bright melody with notes of xylophone and piano. Meanwhile, the…
There is no way to be a mathematical genius. Shakuntala Devi had little formal education. Maryam Mirzakhani graduated from Harvard University. Two films narrate how…
There is now an approved treatment for Ebola, one of the world’s deadliest diseases. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced October 14 that Inmazeb,…
A strange group of newly measured stars orbiting the nearby Andromeda galaxy has the lowest level of heavy chemical elements ever seen in one of…
A Venus flytrap’s short-term “memory” can last about 30 seconds. If an insect taps the plant’s sensitive hairs only once, the trap remains still. But…
In the world’s largest seagrass restoration project, scientists have observed an ecosystem from birth to full flowering. As part of a 20-plus-years project, researchers and…