Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa’s oldest national park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled east, the head of the park told AFP on Tuesday.
It is caused by a spore-forming bacterium, Bacillus anthracis, which survives for decades in soil…
Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia’s far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem.
But the body they were dissecting is a baby mammoth who died around 130,000 years ago.
Discovered last year, the calf – nicknamed Yana, for…
What if the key to sharper focus and a younger brain wasn’t a supplement or app—but turning off your mobile internet? A new study from the University of British Columbia suggests that ditching phone internet access, even temporarily, could roll back your brain’s cognitive clock…
A new kind of space engine could change how we explore the solar system, and it’s powered by the same force that lights up the stars. A British startup called Pulsar Fusion is working on a nuclear rocket that uses fusion energy to propel spacecraft at unprecedented speeds. If…
A “pink moon” is on its way – and skywatchers in the U.S. should have a great chance to see the sight.
The fourth full moon of the year…
Dozens of gray whales are dying in Pacific Ocean waters again this year and human-caused climate change may be to blame, scientists say.
At…
Perhaps inevitably in such turbulent, uncertain times, there’s a renewed interest in cryonics: the freezing and storing of human remains so that they can be resurrected in the future when medical technology is sufficiently advanced.
The appeal of this is obvious. It’s basically the mortality…
Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA signatures of dire wolves, an iconic predator last…
On paper, the two most spectacular astronomical discoveries of the last few weeks couldn’t possibly have less in common.
One is an image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope of a newborn star in our Galaxy, the Milky Way, about 450 light-years away. It’s an amazing picture of the birth…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the recently appointed secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), has long promoted unfounded conspiracy theories regarding community water fluoridation. Now that he’s…