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Fifty years after Southern California’s Salton Sea formed due to an engineering mishap in 1905, the giant salt lake became a booming vacation destination. Nicknamed the…
The patient: A 6-year-old boy in the NetherlandsThe symptoms: The child was receiving a blood transfusion as a treatment for lymphoblastic leukemia, a type of blood…
Science word of the day: AbiogenesisPronunciation: Ay-bye-oh-JEN’-ih-sisWhat it means: Abiogenesis is the emergence of life from nonliving matter through chemical processes. Scientists still don’t know exactly…
Runoff from Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet could severely disrupt currents in the Atlantic Ocean that regulate the global climate, researchers say. But the fresh water…
One of the central assumptions of modern neuroscience research is that the brain’s shape and structure affect behavior. Scientists have linked a thicker cortex (the brain’s…
Researchers have unveiled a new “super-efficient” artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate images by using a network of physical oscillators rather than traditional calculation-based computing…
Science word of the day: CryptologyPronunciation: Krip-TAH’-leh-jeeWhat it means: Cryptology is the study of secret codes — both making them (cryptography) and breaking them (cryptanalysis). Once…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Lake Skadar, Montenegro and Albania [42.201087364, 19.303135741]What’s in the photo? A giant, milky-green swirl on the lake’s surfaceWho took the photo? An…
A common culprit behind severe gum disease may also stiffen and narrow the heart’s aortic valve, preliminary research suggests. This may help explain links between gum…
After using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer back toward the beginning of time, astronomers have proposed a radical new explanation for one of…
