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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Energy scarcity is a central driver of animal behavior and evolution. The amazing diversity of life on this planet is a ...

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