Most human diseases can be traced to malfunctioning parts of a cell — a tumor is able to grow because a gene wasn’t accurately translated into a particular protein or a metabolic disease arises...
A joint research team of British, Spanish and Austrian scientists was able to conclude that over the past 30 years, no country has met the basic needs of its residents at a globally sustainable...
Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced ambitious plans to plant one billion trees across the country in the next three years. The announcement came just days after climate...
The results of a new scientific study showed that the concentration of ammonia gas is constantly rising in the atmosphere of Africa, and researchers have linked this rise to the phenomena of burning...
The White House announced today, Tuesday, that US President Joe Biden has ordered the use of 50 million barrels of the United States' strategic oil reserves in a coordinated effort with other...
Heather McKillop, along with her research team from LSU, excavated the salt kitchens where brine was boiled in clay pots over fires in pole and thatch buildings. The Maya constructed stone temples...
Remains of a toothless, two-legged dinosaur species that lived some 70 million years ago has been discovered in Brazil, researchers said Thursday, calling it a "very rare" find. The small dinosaur,...
If you’re unlucky enough not to have retired by 2050, the working world will be a very different place to how it is today. The vision of the future for workers tends to scale from a nihilistic...
This bear was wandering the streets of Florida, US, for weeks on end with a plastic container stuck on its head, until local authorities came to the rescue. The animal spent 28 days trapped in what...
Two humanitarian activists who provided life-saving aid to migrants and asylum seekers trying to reach Greece will face charges in a trial scheduled for November 18, 2021, Human Rights Watch said...
An astronomer from NSF's NOIRLab has teamed up with a geologist from California State University, Fresno, to make the first estimates of rock types that exist on planets orbiting nearby stars. After...
Jacob Chansley, the so-called "QAnon Shaman," was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in the US Capitol riot. CNN said that this ruling is expected to serve as an example for other judges,...
Oil prices rose today, Tuesday, supported by a decline in inventories, although optimism was limited by concerns about demand after the increase in Covid-19 injuries in Europe. Brent crude...
As the inhabitants of an ancient Middle Eastern city now called Tall el-Hammam went about their daily business one day about 3,600 years ago, they had no idea an unseen icy space rock was speeding...
The price of diesel has skyrocketed in Syria in recent years as a result of the country's devastating decade-long war. But in Idlib province, some have turned to a cheap and eco-friendly alternative...
Israeli cyber intelligence company NSO asked the Israeli government for assistance in trying to lift sanctions imposed by the U.S. Department of Commerce, according to a letter obtained by Axios....
Experts from the US investment bank "Goldman Sachs" offered a set of advice to investors about the coming year, and said that the global economy will see strong demand and limited supply in 2022....
In many ways, our neighbouring planet is very similar to Earth. It’s a rocky planet of about the same size, and it has an atmosphere and some water. Yet, a closer look reveals striking differences...
The statuary heads of two Greek gods have been unearthed in an ancient city in western Turkey, according to an archaeologist working at the site. The heads of both Aphrodite, the goddess of love,...
A nearly perfectly intact room that served as a kind of dormitory for enslaved people has been unearthed by archaeologists at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The room has three wooden beds, a...
