Toxic pollutants from a Southern California river are infiltrating the air. Polluted water surging along a turbulent section of the Tijuana River in San Diego can release toxic gases, including …
The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can …
Briefly walking up a steep hill counts as exercise Greg Balfour Evans/Alamy If you don’t exercise for the sake of exercising, doing five or six vigorous activities, each lasting just …
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In a first, astronomers imaged a baby planet within a gap in the disk of material around a star, confirming predictions about how rings form.
You are mostly but not entirely human. If we crunch the numbers, 8 percent of your genome actually comes from viruses that got stranded there. This viral detritus is a …
South_agency/Getty Images If you have swiped through fitness-related content on Instagram, Facebook or TikTok lately, chances are that an influencer on your feed has taken steroids. A recent global meta-study …
How exactly ancient toolmakers survived the harsh conditions remains a mystery
An antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning could come from bacteria. Mice treated with a tweaked version of a bacterial protein rapidly cleared carbon monoxide from their blood, safely eliminating it …
Certain brain cells are responsible for coordinating smooth, controlled movements of the body. But when those cells are constantly overactivated for weeks on end, they degenerate and ultimately die. This …