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The wandering albatrosses of Marion Island can’t defend themselves against an invasive mice population that devours birds alive, but conservationists say a rodenticide ‘bomb’ could save them.
Ancient hunters may have mounted Clovis points on sophisticated pikes that fractured inside large mammals like woolly mammoths to inflict fatal injuries, archaeologists say.
For thousands of years, people in Taiwan pulled out healthy teeth. Now we know why they underwent this painful procedure.
Over the past 41,000 years, viral communities have varied significantly between cold and warm climatic periods, scientists found.
While airborne, globular springtails can reach a spin rate of 368 rotations per second, high-speed camera footage shows.
The Taichi-II chiplet, which could one day power super-intelligent AI models, ups the ante in light-based processing.
This is another in our series of stories identifying new technologies and actions that can slow climate change, reduce its impacts or help communities cope with a rapidly changing world. The ocean is Earth’s climate hero. For decades, ocean waters have helped slow…
The fungus thrives on everything from soy pulp to bland custards, turning them into digestible foods with a surprisingly pleasant flavor.
Rare fossilized sea cow unearthed by a local farmer in Venezuela appears to have been killed by a croc then eaten by a tiger shark.
Researchers have identified two distinct mechanisms of drug resistance in C. difficile, but its ability to withstand antibiotics comes with downsides for the bacteria.
