China Makes Remarkable Gains in Maternal and Child Survival Rates
China has made remarkable gains in reducing the number of women who die during childbirth and boosting child survival rates over the past 70 years,…
China has made remarkable gains in reducing the number of women who die during childbirth and boosting child survival rates over the past 70 years,…
Studying data from the Kepler space telescope, Flatiron Institute researchers found that planetary shrinkage over billions of years likely explains a yearslong mystery: The scarcity…
Free of toxic and hallucinogenic side effects, ibogaine-inspired tabernanthalog shows promise as a potential treatment for the detrimental effects of stress on the brain. A…
Research team led by the University of Göttingen discovers crater floor sagging from bowl-shaped volcanic ash layer. The almost 15-million-year-old Nördlinger Ries is an asteroid…
Waking up just one hour earlier could reduce a person’s risk of major depression by 23%, suggests a sweeping new genetic study published on May…
A comprehensive analysis of 437 studies from around the world provides the best evidence to date that narcissism is an important risk factor for both…
Fifty-six million years ago, as the Earth’s climate warmed by five to eight degrees C, new land mammals evolved, tropical forests expanded, giant insects and…
As Earth’s climate changes, the International Space Station watches from above, helping to provide unique insights to keep our planet safe. On Earth, we often…
Within the next decade, the novel coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 could become little more than a nuisance, causing no more than common cold-like coughs and…
This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the trailing arms of NGC 2276, a spiral galaxy 120 million light-years away in the…
A study of gene activity in the brain’s hippocampus, led by UT Southwestern researchers, has identified marked differences between the region’s anterior and posterior portions….
After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with…
New research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) climate scientists and collaborators shows that satellite measurements of the temperature of the troposphere (the lowest region…
UIC researchers prove that drugs designed for bacteria have potential to act on human cells. According to researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago, the…
Core This is where the Sun generates its energy. The temperature in the core is around 15 million degrees Celsius (27 million degrees Fahrenheit). This,…
Human bodies have roughly 30,000 genes dictating not only how we look, but also critical biological processes. Now, a Florida State University and Australia National…
Developing new ultrathin metal electrodes has allowed researchers to create semitransparent perovskite solar cells that are highly efficient and can be coupled with traditional silicon…
Anyone who’s raised a child or a pet will know just how fast and how steady their growth seems to be. You leave for a…