Armed with stingers and pincers, scorpions sport some of the most formidable weapons in the animal kingdom – weapons which, it turns out, are reinforced with heavy metals.
Now, scientists have found that different species incorporate those metals into their exoskeletons in different ways,…
Two high-profile water crises, juiced up by climate change and industrial overuse, are building in the US. From a city in Texas staring down a drought emergency to a decades-long political crisis coming to a head for the states that rely on the Colorado River, water issues in the West will take…
Following a three-decade career at the helm of some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies—cofounding LinkedIn and sitting on the boards of PayPal and OpenAI—Reid Hoffman recently turned his attention to health care.
Hoffman’s startup, Manas AI, is building an AI engine that aims to…
Erin Hecht: There’s sort of a tongue-in-cheek idea that dogs are psychological parasites, that they’ve evolved to hack our psychology and worm their way into our emotions and take over the types of psychological urges that we would normally invest in a human social partner. So I think, they…
‘Extinct’ volcanoes that haven’t erupted for tens of thousands of years may not actually be inactive, but silently accumulating huge reservoirs of magma to fuel future outbursts.
This worrying revelation comes from a team of volcanologists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, who mapped the…
A Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time crossing a human-made canopy bridge constructed to help the endangered animals bypass a tarred road on the Indonesian island, an NGO said Sunday.
Conservation group Tangguh Hutan Khatulistiwa, in partnership with the UK-based charity…
Antibiotic resistance is a fast-growing public health crisis, causing more than a million global deaths annually and contributing to nearly 5 million more. These infections are more difficult and more expensive to treat than typical infections and are responsible for longer hospital stays,…
