Even a fisher’s yarn would sell a whale shark short. These fish—the biggest on the planet—stretch up to 18 meters long and weigh as much…
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Each year, thousands of newly minted U.S. Ph.D. recipients complete the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), providing information about their race, gender, disability status, educational…
For decades, Chinese-born U.S. faculty members were applauded for working with colleagues in China, and their universities cited the rich payoff from closer ties to…
PUBLIC HEALTH Next-gen bed nets get go-ahead A new type of malaria-fighting bed net received a major endorsement from the World Health Organization (WHO) last…
When the first x-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) opened in 2009 at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, it provided a new way to look at…
In an unusual move, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has quietly begun a new competition for the contract to run the United States’s sole…
Was it an asteroid, comet, or even an alien spaceship? For years, astronomers have been perplexed by ‘Oumuamua, a mysterious object up to 400 meters…
Melissa Miller knew something was off when she began to examine a sea otter that had died in San Simeon, a coastal California town about…
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Country: Donate now Support nonprofit science journalism If we’ve learned anything from the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that we cannot wait for a crisis to respond.…
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS—At a basic level, humanity’s survival odds come down to one thing: the chances of a giant space rock slamming into the planet…
Last week, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) reported that seven children, six in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and one in neighboring…
The number of high-containment labs studying the deadliest known pathogens is booming. A new analysis warns the growing number of labs is raising risks of…
Stephanie Blendermann, 65, had good reason to worry about heart disease. Three of her sisters died in their 40s or early 50s from heart attacks,…
On 25 June 2021, as a blanket of hot air descended on the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia’s provincial government issued a news release warning about…
A new tool to fight the world’s deadliest animal—the malaria-carrying mosquito—may soon become more widely available. Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed using a…
The once widely held notion that humans fall into discrete races has led to geneticists drawing erroneous conclusions about the role of genes in shaping…
Visitors to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington, D.C., receive a clear reminder that, 3 years after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared…
Twirling and flying hand fans, catchy Lord of the Rings references, and 20 blue papier-mâché balloons. University of Oregon chemist Checkers Marshall put together that…
Country: Donate now Support nonprofit science journalism If we’ve learned anything from the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that we cannot wait for a crisis to respond.…