Monkeypox, caused by the monkeypox virus—a close cousin of smallpox—has spread rapidly worldwide. From 2022 to 2025, more ...

The 2024 arrest and subsequent release of activist Paul Watson, the founder of the NGO Sea Shepherd that fights to protect ...

An avalanche is caused by a chain reaction of events. A vibration or a change in terrain can have a cascading and devastating ...

Societal challenges, from climate change to public health crises to advancements in artificial intelligence, have been ...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is an indigenous and staple crop in sub-Saharan Africa, but it has an enemy: an insect called the ...

A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona ...

Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of ...

The Reykjanes Peninsula at Iceland's southwestern edge is one of the country's most populated regions, and it is also one of ...

New research reveals significant systemic barriers are preventing people with learning disabilities and complex needs from ...

EPFL researchers succeeded in sending and storing data using charge-free magnetic waves called spin waves, rather than ...

Classical physics theories suggest that when two or more electromagnetic waves interfere destructively (i.e., with their ...

Quasicrystals, exotic states of matter characterized by an ordered structure with non-repeating spatial patterns, have been ...