Scientists analyzed children’s blood lead levels to quantify soil lead risk across Chicago neighborhoods. On this map, areas covered in dark purple are those where children had the lowest blood lead ...

The “Old West” dust has fascinated our imagination for decades. It could be a result of our own activity. Image credits: Drei Kubik. For over a century, the “Old West” of the US has fascinated ...

It started when a user browsing the family medicine subreddit asked Reddit’s AI for “approaches to pain management without opioids.” It sounded promising. Opioids can be addictive and have serious ...

The latest IUCN assessment of the species notes that historically the slender-billed curlew was likely locally common, but there were signs of decline as early 1912. By the 1940s, researchers were ...

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting increases.

Bob Berwyn is an Austria-based reporter who has covered climate science and international climate policy for more than a decade. Previously, he reported on the environment, endangered species and ...

Dolphins keep turning up on Florida’s beaches, stuck in the shallows and barely moving. Volunteers and scientists try to help by cooling them down, keeping them wet, and sometimes getting them back to ...

The antibody, called 04_A06, blocked 98.5% of more than 300 different HIV strains in lab tests, including many resistant to other treatments. In mice engineered with human immune systems, 04_A06 did ...

Researchers examined the brains of 20 common bottlenose dolphins that had stranded along Florida’s Indian River Lagoon (IRL) between 2010 and 2019. All of them—adults and juveniles alike—showed signs ...

That, Granatosky says, was part of the fun. The Chicago Rat Hole turned out to be a modern example of the same kind of trace evidence scientists use to reconstruct ancient life. “It really speaks to ...

Overlay of the infrared emission (black and white) with the radio emission (colored). The dark, low-mass object is located at the gap in the bright part of the arc on the right hand side. Credit : ...

Dr. Carolina Gubert, another senior author, explained that “these kinds of changes in the hippocampus, as well as other brain regions, may contribute to the increased anxiety we observed in offspring, ...