Science
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Wide Swath of U.S. to Get Buggy As Two Cicada Broods Intrude
Cicadas, the noisy but rather tame insects that spend most of their lives underground, are poised...
April 11, 2024
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Gene Offers Clues on Left-handedness
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — What do Lady Gaga, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Paul McCartney and Justin Bie...
April 11, 2024
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Prostate Cancer Cases to Double over 20 Years
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — The number of new prostate cancer cases around the world will more than double...
April 10, 2024
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Scientists Chronicle the Earliest Stages of a Supernova
REHOVOT, Israel (Reuters) — About 20 million years ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a large star...
April 10, 2024
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Researchers Investigate Thousands of Dead Antarctic Penguins for Bird Flu
Has bird flu already killed hundreds, if not thousands of penguins in Antarctica?
...April 10, 2024
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Fossil of 16-million-year-old River Dolphin Found in Peru
Scientists on March 20 unveiled a 16 million-year-old fossil skull unearthed in Peru of a river d...
April 10, 2024
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Wider Spread Raises Concern for Humans
PARIS (Reuters) — The spread of bird flu to an increasing number of species and its widening geog...
April 10, 2024
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New Volcano Research Headquarters to Come Up with Policy by Summer; First Committee of Its Kind in Japan
The government’s newly established headquarters for promoting volcanic observation and research c...
April 9, 2024
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Study of Polyglots Offers Insight on Brain’s Language Processing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — While most people speak only one language or perhaps two, some are profici...
April 6, 2024
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Study Documents Headaches Experienced by Astronauts in Space
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Research in the expanding field of space medicine has identified many ways...
April 6, 2024
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Humans Give More Viruses to Animals than They Give Us
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens...
April 4, 2024
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Britain’s Astronomer Royal: Send Robots into Space Rather than People
LONDON (Reuters) — Britain’s Astronomer Royal Martin Rees said sending people into space when rob...
April 4, 2024
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Italy to Host Main Control Center for EU Satellite Constellation
ORTUCCHIO, Italy (Reuters) — A space center in the heart of Italy is set to host the main control...
April 4, 2024
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Your Dog Understands When You Say ‘Fetch the Ball’
BUDAPEST (AP) — Many dog owners believe their pets understand and respond not only to commands su...
April 3, 2024
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Kermit the Frog May Offer Clues on Amphibian Evolution
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — There definitely were no Muppets during the Permian Period, but there was ...
March 29, 2024
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