Scientists have turned a common natural sweetener into a powerful new weapon against hair loss. By using stevioside (the ...

Dust devils on Mars have been known for years. Using them as a proxy for wind speed, however, is a clever twist. The new ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

A study published this week in Nature projects that wildfire smoke will cause approximately 71,000 excess deaths each year by ...

Liz Kimbrough is a staff writer for Mongabay based in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She has written about science and ...

Study looks at Sable Island as an example of what is happening to many other islands ...

When babies heard French, their brains lit up in the left temporal cortex, the same area adults use for language. The same ...

An obituary is supposed to be a person’s life story in 175 words or less. They tell us who the deceased was, but also what ...

Last week, at the Zurich Film Festival, the AI production company Particle6 announced the formation of a new AI talent studio ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibres, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks” ...

Most scientists follow this pronunciation for exactly that reason: it’s neutral. It avoids the scatological “yoor-AY-nuhss” while staying close to its Latin roots. Another accepted variant is ...