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 In a nearly 5,000-year-old tomb in Sweden, researchers have discovered the oldest-known strain of the notorious bacterium Yersinia pestis — the microbe responsible for humanity's perhaps most-feared contagion: the plague. The finding suggests that the ... Discuss |
 A 36-year-old California man who was admitted to the intensive care unit with chronic heart failure was coughing so severely that he hacked up a piece of his lung. The unidentified patient, whose case was written about in the New England Journal of ... Discuss |
 It's supposed to be a plastic pal who's fun to be with. CIMON isn't much to look at. It's just a floating ball with a cartoonish face on its touch screen. It's built to be a personal assistant for astronauts working on the International Space Station ... Discuss |
 Have you ever gotten home from work and thought, boy, that was a rough day? Well, at least you don't have a big eel hanging out of your nose. Researchers at the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program spotted a monk seal lounging with an eel jammed up its nose on ... Discuss |
 Living in a neighborhood with lots of greenery just might protect your ticker. "Our study shows that living in a neighborhood dense with trees, bushes and other green vegetation may be good for the health of heart and blood vessels," said study author Aruni ... Discuss |
 The quest to create affordable, durable and mass-produced 'smart textiles' has been given fresh impetus through the use of the wonder material Graphene. An international team of scientists, led by Professor Monica Craciun from the University of Exeter ... Discuss |
 Gravitational waves have been picked up from the biggest black hole merger yet detected. Scientists say their laser labs sensed the ripples in space-time emanating from this gargantuan collision on 29 July 2017. The event saw two holes, weighing more ... Discuss |
 On a summer night in 2017, Chen Zhanqi made a curious find in his lab in China's Yunnan province. In an artificial nest, he spotted a juvenile jumping spider attached to its mother in a way that reminded him of a baby mammal sucking its mother's teats. On ... Discuss |
 Scientists have invented a new clock that keeps time more precisely than any that have come before. The clock is so accurate that it won't gain or lose more than one second in 14 billion years — roughly the age of the cosmos. Its ticking rate is so ... Discuss |
 Some things you learn in school turn out not to be true, for example that there are just five senses or three states of matter. Now cutting-edge research has added to the list by proving the mitochondria (the power sources in our cells) comes from both ... Discuss |
 A giant rhino that may have been the origin of the unicorn myth survived until at least 39,000 years ago - much longer than previously thought. Known as the Siberian unicorn, the animal had a long horn on its nose, and roamed the grasslands of Eurasia. New ... Discuss |
 For decades, space advocates have been pushing for space settlement: humans living and working permanently beyond Earth. Those visions come in different forms, from bases on the Moon and Mars to the space colonies espoused by Gerard K. O'Neill more than ... Discuss |
 Scientists have discovered the fossils of a massive "mammal-like" reptile that roamed the Earth 210 million years ago, with its weight of 9,000 kg (19,841 lbs.) making it the largest four-legged non-dinosaur to have inhabited the Triassic period. The ... Discuss |
 Dogs are not only man's best friend, but they're also amazing sniffers. Their ability to detect explosives or illegal substances has long been understood but we're just scratching the surface. Recent studies have shown that dogs are able to detect ... Discuss |
 Who needs aliens, when there are bizarre life forms still to be discovered in Canada? Scientists recently detected two previously unknown species of microbes in a Canadian dirt sample, and the specimens were so unusual that the researchers had to ... Discuss |
 Your baby's pacifier falls on the floor. Before giving it back to your child, do you wash it in a sink or, perhaps reluctantly, clean it with your own saliva? Don't feel too guilty if you chose the latter, because a new study suggests that a mother's ... Discuss |
 If you're a coffee lover, you know that drinking coffee is a complex and nuanced experience—there's the rich aroma, the comforting warmth, and the loveliness of the ritual of sitting down with a fresh cup. But if you focus on the actual taste of coffee on ... Discuss |
 Last Thanksgiving was ruined for Greg Phillpotts and his family after the unexpected. Fluid from his nose ran into the food. "I was preparing a meal and standing in the kitchen and it just added itself to the ingredients -- it screwed up the whole ... Discuss |
 "Houston, we have a problem." Red warning lights flash on the console of our shuttle as we rocket into the atmosphere, our mission to the International Space Station now in jeopardy. Communicating with mission control, we determine a sensor simply ... Discuss |
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