The Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum area for the year on October 7, 2021, and ranks as the 13th largest since 1979. Scientists from NASA and NOAA reported that…
Licorice root and black licorice candy. A licorice-derived substance may have anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer effects. Researchers look to licorice for promising cancer treatments. Licorice is more than a candy people…
New Horizons mission scientists have determined that cryovolcanic activity most likely created unique structures on Pluto not yet seen anywhere else in the solar system. The amount of material required…
Biotechnology firm Oxitec ran the first open-air test of genetically modified mosquitoes in the United States by placing boxes of its eggs in selected spots in the Florida Keys.Credit: Joe…
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to take the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disc encircling the 20-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris. Beta Pictoris…
You’re not alone if you’re sneezing, itching, or have swollen, watery eyes due to seasonal allergies. You may take one or more allergy medications or nasal sprays to alleviate your…
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts participate in a training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, CA. From left to right: NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 mission specialist Jessica Watkins; NASA astronaut…
Scientists have published the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, two decades after the Human Genome Project produced the first draft human genome sequence. Credit: Ernesto del Aguila…
Overlook of Tombs in high altitudes. Excavated from Jierzankale site in Tashikuergan, Kashi region. Credit: YAN Xuguang, Kashi Daily Xinjiang, in northwest China, lays at an important junction between east…
There are strong correlations between what we eat and how we feel, according to the relatively new field of nutritional psychiatry, and healthy food is happy food. Many of us…
