As we age, many changes occur in our body, we become brittle, our hair turns white, and our skin wrinkles. We also become more susceptible to disease and can lose our cognitive …
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There has been a regime change on an almost unimaginable scale in the natural world, reflecting humanity’s vast and growing dominance over one of our planet’s most vital resources: fresh water. In …
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Humans have developed large, energy-hungry brains that require us to consume far more calories than our closest animal relatives. However, the same does not seem to be the case with our water …
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Russia said on Saturday that its scientists had detected the world’s first case of transmission of the H5N8 strain of bird flu from birds to humans and had alerted the World Health …
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In 2020, researchers claimed that they had discovered a Neanderthal Covid gene that diminished our ability to fight the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19. Now, a new research project in Japan has …
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The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is already a fascinating enough plant, but scientists have discovered something more amazing about it: it generates measurable magnetic fields when its leaves close. And going much …
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A year ago, I wrote an article in the Chinese city of Wuhan for a conversation about a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia that moved to be the start of the COVID-19 epidemic. …
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The first complete map of a platypus genome has been released recently, and it is in every way strange as you see a creature with 10 sex chromosomes, a pair of venomous …
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A new United Nations report on human development has shown that our species faces the future of our own creation. big picture: The COVID-19 pandemic – which emerged from nature but is …
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The question is whether the 7-million-year-old primate’s nickname ‘Toomai’, which runs on two or four legs, has killed off drama among palaeontologists – with a fading femur. Since the discovery of Sahelanthropus …
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