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The Study That Called Out Black Plastic Utensils Had a Major Math Error

Editors of the environmental chemistry journal Chemosphere have posted an eye-catching correction to a study reporting toxic...

Generative AI and Climate Change Are on a Collision Course

In 2025, AI and climate change, two of the biggest societal disruptors we're facing, will collide.The summer...

Archaeology’s top discoveries of 2024 include preserved brains and a lost city

Grizzly details about ancient child sacrifices, a map of a lost city in the Amazon and the...

A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney

An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered...

Sheep earwax can record a dangerous diet

A bit of ear goop can reveal if sheep are eating dangerously poisonous plants. Earwax from sheep...

Antibodies Could Soon Help Slow the Aging Process

Normally, antibodies are protective proteins produced by our immune systems to fight bacteria or viruses. Their strength...

How Christmas Trees Could Become a Source of Low-Carbon Protein

In a polytunnel on the Scottish island of Bute, thousands of spindly Scots pine seedlings are growing....

Here are 8 remarkable scientific firsts of 2024

Each year, scientists break new ground in their quest to understand life and the mysteries of the...

The Simple Math Behind Public Key Cryptography

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.For thousands of years, if you wanted to...

Good at Reading? Your Brain May Be Structured Differently

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.The number of people who read...

Mega-Farms Are Driving the Threat of Bird Flu

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.A handful...

Creating a Global Package to Solve the Problem of Plastics

According to the United Nations, plastic production skyrocketed from 2 million metric tons in 1950 to about...
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