FUTURE SUMMERS COULD REGULARLY BE HOTTER THAN THE HOTTEST ON RECORD
In 50 years, summers across most of the globe could regularly be hotter than any summer experienced so far by people alive today,...
ROBOTS MAY BE ABLE TO LIFT, DRIVE, AND CHAT, BUT ARE THEY SAFE AND TRUSTWORTHY?
Whether it's self-driving cars, automated package delivery systems, or Barbie dolls that converse with children, the ways in which humans...
MORE ANCIENT VIRUSES LURK IN OUR DNA THAN WE THOUGHT
Think your DNA is all human? Think again. And a new discovery suggests it's even less human than scientists previously thought. Nineteen...
CLIMATE VARIATIONS ANALYZED FIVE MILLION YEARS BACK IN TIME
When we talk about climate change today, we have to look at what the climate was previously like in order to recognize the natural...
DESERT MANGROVES ARE MAJOR SOURCE OF CARBON STORAGE
Researchers found that short, stunted mangroves living along the coastal desert of Baja California store up to five times more carbon...
HUBBLE UNVEILS MONSTER STARS
An international team of scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has combined images taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 with...
MORE SOCIAL INSECTS HAVE WEAKER IMMUNE RESPONSE, HIGHLIGHTS ROLE OF HYGIENE
Research finds that among eusocial insects like ants, bees and termites, the more individuals there are in a typical species colony, the...
NEW GOLDEN FROG SPECIES DISCOVERED IN COLOMBIA
Scientists have discovered a new species of pale-gold colored frog from the cloud forests of the high Andes in Colombia. Its name,...
MOONS OF SATURN MAY BE YOUNGER THAN THE DINOSAURS
New research suggests that some of Saturn's icy moons, as well as its famous rings, might be modern adornments. Their dramatic birth may...
A WORLD MAP OF NEANDERTHAL AND DENISOVAN ANCESTRY IN MODERN HUMANS
Most non-Africans possess at least a little bit of Neanderthal DNA. But a new map of archaic ancestry suggests that many bloodlines...
