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US hospitals are facing critically low supplies of...
In response to a shortage of liquid ibuprofen, the US Food and Drug Administration is temporarily al...
Bears may self-medicate against ticks by rubbing a...
Brown bears often scratch their backs on trees, leaving behind chemical signals to other bears. Now,...
Two of the UK's water companies are still using do...
Most UK water companies have dropped the scientifically discredited method of dowsing to find water ...
Solar panel cleaning robot can be dropped off and ...
Dirty solar panels reduce global solar energy output as much as 5 per cent, but a start-up in Israel...
Multicellular life may have begun with brief allia...
Single-celled organisms called Stentor can feed more efficiently by pairing up, illustrating a possi...
US childhood obesity guidelines may rush the use o...
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends intensive interventions to manage weight loss, includi...
‘Love hormone' may not be crucial for social bondi...
Prairie voles still form social bonds without oxytocin sensors in the brain. The findings challenge ...
Taxing sugary drinks may not cut obesity as much a...
A study finds the UK’s 2018 sugar tax prevented 5000 cases of obesity in school girls in England, bu...
We can reduce homelessness if we follow the scienc...
Decades of research have shown that focusing on housing, without making sobriety or mental health tr...
Preterm babies have a similar BMI at adolescence t...
By the time premature babies reach 14 to 19 years of age, they have, on average, a similar body mass...
Earth's 'geological thermostat' is too slow to pre...
Rock weathering has helped keep Earth’s climate relatively stable for millions of years, but the pro...
The size of skin cancer cells may affect how they ...
Smaller melanoma skin cancer cells may be more vulnerable to drugs that block DNA repair, while larg...
AI has designed bacteria-killing proteins from scr...
An AI was tasked with creating proteins with anti-microbial properties. Researchers then created a s...
Supernovae might be a good place to hunt for alien...
Other intelligent civilisations may send transmissions after a bright galactic event like a supernov...
‘Forbidden’ planet somehow escaped consumption by ...
The planet 8 Ursae Minoris b should have been destroyed when its star became a red giant, but it con...
The US government is suing Google – again
A new US government lawsuit alleges that Google has harmed innovation and raised costs for internet ...
Why gene variant impairing alcohol breakdown raise...
A gene variant that causes the "alcohol flush" reaction increases the risk of heart disease by causi...
Early relatives of primates lived in the Arctic 52...
Analysis of fossilised teeth from Ellesmere Island, Canada, reveals that extinct relatives of monkey...
