Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a growing cause of death worldwide. They killed roughly 1.27 million people in 2019, according to the most recent worldwide analysis. One obvious culprit has been our overuse of antimicr...
Earth & Environment
CLIMATEWIRE | Parts of South Africa are still reeling nearly a month after heavy rains and catastrophic floods wracked the coastal city of Durban and surrounding areas, killing hundreds of people and destroying thousands...
Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) was resoundingly booed on Saturday while giving a commencement address at the University of Wyoming after she said it is a “fundamental scientific truth” that there can only be males and fe...
Shootings at three locations in North Carolina on Sunday wounded seven people in what police said was “not a random act of violence.”“This is not a random act of violence and the investigation is ongoing,” the Winsto...
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) called out House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for enabling white nationalism in the wake of a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, over the weekend.“The House GOP leadership h...
SMART NEWSScientists Figure Out Why Female Octopuses Self-Destruct After Laying EggsA new study finds several biochemical pathways, including one that produces a precursor to cholesterol, may be key to this behaviorTheOc...
The white gunman accused of a racist rampage at a Buffalo supermarket planned to keep killing if he had escaped the scene, the police commissioner said Monday, as authorities investigated the massacre of Black people as ...
SMART NEWSWhy Do Creepy Dolls Keep Washing Up on Texas Beaches?Ocean currents push the unsettling toys—and tons of other trash—onto state shoresResearchers keep finding dolls and doll body parts off the coast of Texas,...
SMART NEWSMigrating Sea Turtles Don’t Really Know Where They’re GoingNew research finds that many hawksbill turtles take meandering routes to reach foraging sites in the Indian OceanHawksbill turtles often take circuit...
Stonehenge, a prehistoric site in England.Photo: DANIEL LEAL/AFP (Getty Images)A team of geoscientists and archaeologists found hundreds of large prehistoric pits while conducting a geophysical survey of the land around ...
The remains of a structure near Mora, New Mexico May 4 due to the ongoing Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon wildfire.Photo: Jim Weber/Santa Fe New Mexican (AP)If you’re already lucky to be able to afford a home in today’s hou...
Bad Bunny waves a flag during a 2019 national strike demanding Puerto Rico’s Governor Ricardo Rossello resignation. Photo: ERIC ROJAS/AFP (Getty Images)Puerto Rican artist Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio —aka Bad Bunny...
More than half of all homes, 56 percent, in the contiguous 48 states face at least some wildfire risk in the next few decades, according to a first-of-its-kind report published today by the nonprofit research organizatio...
Trees and forests around the world are under strain from climate change. They also are threatened by logging and development. To address these problems—and to increase the capture of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—...
The massive Hunga undersea volcano in the South Pacific Ocean erupted on January 15, 2022, devastating the island country of Tonga and causing a variety of atmospheric wave types, including booms heard 6,200 miles (10,00...
Overnight, stargazers were treated to a spectacular and unique sight: a super crimson Moon. Earth's orbit meant that for many minutes after 03:30 GMT on Monday, our planet was squarely between the Sun and the Moon.T...
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 1 million on Monday, a once-unimaginable figure that only hints at the multitudes of loved ones and friends staggered by grief and frustration.The confirmed number of dead is equival...
NEW YORK (AP) — When the U.S. hit 1 million COVID-19 deaths on Monday, the news was driven by a government tally derived from death certificates.But that’s not the only tally. And you may be wondering, where do these n...
A Republican state lawmaker with ties to white nationalists suggested the racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket was staged by government agents.“Fed boy summer has started in Buffalo,” Ar...
Billionaire Jeff Bezos on Sunday tweeted another critique of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda, praising the lone Democratic holdout against the president’s failed Build Back Better spending legislation, Sen. Joe M...
