Category: Science

Finding that vampire bats along Peru’s coast carried H5N1 antibodies raises concerns that multiple bat species could become reservoirs for the virus.

Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ancient site in England.

Death cap mushrooms look harmless, but are responsible for the majority of the world’s mushroom-related deaths. California officials say 21 people have been sickened in

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could increase to 150 days

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more than 400,000 years ago.

A new sodium-ion battery offers a cheaper and safer alternative to conventional lithium-ion systems, scientists say, paving the way for more sustainable EVs.

A flash of lightning, and then—something else. High above a storm, a crimson figure blinks in and out of existence. If you see it, you

Ask ChatGPT how to build a bomb, and it will flatly respond that it “can’t help with that.” But users have long played a cat-and-mouse

A 1956 eruption collapsed much of the Bezymianny volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, but frequent eruptions since — including a large event in November — means

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The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts told Live Science.

Scientists uncovered how childhood BK virus infections may set off cancer-causing mutations decades later: by activating a host immune system enzyme that attacks DNA.

Aging comes with graying hair, which may be a sign of the body lowering its risk of cancer, a study suggests.

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