Risk of death from pregnancy in the US is 44 times higher than that from abortion, new analysis reveals
A figure commonly used to compare the risk of death from pregnancy compared with the risk of death from abortion might be based on outdated
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A simple shift in schedule could make cancer immunotherapy work better
A lung cancer trial bolsters a long-held idea that treatment timing matters, showing a simple shift could help immunotherapy work better and extend lives.
This baby sling turns sunlight into treatment for newborn jaundice
A student created a low-cost baby carrier that filters sunlight to safely treat jaundice where electricity and equipment are scarce.
Shimmering Light in Egg Nebula
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals the clearest view yet of the Egg Nebula. This structure of gas and dust was created by a dying, Sun-like
Medieval gold ring with dazzling blue gemstone discovered in Norway is a ‘fantastically beautiful and rare specimen’
The delicate gold ring was made sometime in the Middle Ages and may have belonged to a high-status woman.
Permafrost thaw and ‘shrubification’ have tipped Alaska’s North Slope into a wildfire regime not seen for 3,000 years
An analysis of peatland soil samples and satellite images has found that wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope are more frequent and severe now than they
China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it’s turned this ‘biological void’ into a carbon sink
Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world’s largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more
Wildfires in northern Alaska are the worst they’ve been in 3,000 years
An analysis of peatland soil samples and satellite images has found that wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope are more frequent and severe now than they
World’s oldest known sewn clothing may be stitched pieces of ice age hide unearthed in Oregon cave
The sewn hide, cordage and needles show how Indigenous Americans used complex technology to survive the freezing temperatures at the end of the last ice
Are you a night owl or an early bird?
Research suggests night owls may face different health risks than early birds do. Which category do you fit into, if either?
Food chains in Caribbean coral reefs are getting shorter
Shorter food chains could mean reefs are less able to weather changes in food availability, threatening an already vulnerable ecosystem.
A precise proton measurement helps put a core theory of physics to the test
After years of confusion, a new study confirms the proton is tinier than once thought. That enables a test of the standard model of particle
Radio signal discovered at the center of our galaxy could put Einstein’s relativity to the test
Scientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, near a supermassive black
Cancer vaccine shows promise against HPV-related throat tumors in early study
If proven effective in humans, the vaccine could complement standard therapies for HPV-driven cancer, as well as inform the design of therapeutic vaccines for other