Our Last Line of Defence Against Gonorrhea is Failing
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Probably not a piece of news you ever hoped to see.
Rats in tiny trousers – need we say more?
In just seven days, the Rosetta spacecraft will smash into Comet 67P. A new visualisation shows how it’ll go down.
They now join an elite group of animals that exhibit communications once thought exclusive to humans.
Atmospheric oxygen levels have dropped by 0.7 per cent over the past 800,000 years, and while scientists aren’t sure why, they’re rather excited about it.
Indigenous Australians and Papuans are descended directly from the first people to inhabit the continent some 50,000 years ago.
Siberia's wilds have been ferociously ablaze all summer, and nobody seems to be noticing.
The scroll has been untouched for forty years and only now do we now what is written inside.
European researchers have developed a solar simulator that replicates the heat and light of the sun’s radiation — and then some. The system has the equivalent power of over 20,000 suns. Read more >>
Tiny silicone beads assemble patterns on water, holding their shape for as long as sound passes through them.
And the answer doesn’t imply the immediate destruction of humanity.
New research shows that some males are employing a rather unsettling strategy to prevent this from happening, and it’s a little bit twisted.
If successful, his team will reissue the Voyager Golden Record as a three-LP box set. Ideally, in time for next year's 40th anniversary of the Voyager launch.
The disease kills over a million people every year—but as Kurzgesagt explains, our best bet to eradicate malaria is by building a new mosquito.
A new paper in ACS Infectious Diseases details a new technique that combines two existing food contamination detection methods into a single, fast diagnostic test.
31 nations officially signed onto the accord this morning, making it very likely that the deal will enter legal force this year.
