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The San Andreas fault and a neighboring fault in Southern California have reached their highest levels of tectonic stress in 1,000 years, and a rupture at one fault could propagate to the other, researchers found. The San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems are at their highest levels of tectonic

In 2013, scientists said that around five out of the millions of invertebrates, including butterflies, were at risk of extinction. These beautiful creatures have shown signs of a significant decline in population and conservationists have been fighting for a law to be implemented to protect butterflies. The annual Big Butterfly

Invasive worms, considered a major threat to native ecosystems, have been found in 97 per cent of areas for which there are records in North America As North Americans have busied themselves about their various concerns, unseen invaders have slowly been amassing beneath their feet. There are now more alien

Space agency officials promise to deliver geology results from worlds dozens of light-years away The James Webb Space Telescope plans to explore strange, new rocky worlds in unprecedented detail. The telescope’s scientific consortium has an ambitious agenda to study geology on these small planets from “50 light-years away”, they said

Higher temperatures may push the disease away from historic hotbeds Malaria, one of the world’s most prominent public health challenges, is on the move. A new study based on previous predictions of where malaria in children may appear suggests that climate change is redrawing the map of malaria’s spread across

Parents of toddlers know too well what sugary treats can do. Kids can buzz with energy initially, only to crash or have mood swings later. Now a new study provides more evidence that excess sugar in early life could also pose health problems much later. Eating too much sugar during

  Some men in the United States seeking relief for erectile dysfunction aren’t getting prescriptions for Viagra. Instead, they’re flocking to health clinics to subject their private parts to low-energy sound waves touted as a painless path to penile healing. The treatment, called shock wave therapy, is controversial. But if

  The pathogen that causes the sexually transmitted disease has become resistant to many drugs The pathogen that causes the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is notorious for its ability to develop drug resistance. But now there are two more treatment options. In December, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved

Dec. 3, 2023: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained. his week in science news, we saw SpaceX rockets punching temporary holes in our planet’s atmosphere, heard about new technology for smart glasses that use sonar,

The feature is at an altitude hidden to other telescopes New beauty shots of Jupiter, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, reveal a speedy jet stream encircling the equator at an altitude never imaged before. Researchers have known about Jovian jet streams since Voyager spacecraft flew by in 1979.

Gamma rays reveal the galaxy’s star-making power The Milky Way is churning out far more stars than previously thought, according to a new estimate of its star formation rate. Gamma rays from aluminum-26, a radioactive isotope that arises primarily from massive stars, reveal that the Milky Way converts four to

The ring lies outside a typical, mathematically determined distance from the small world The dwarf planet Quaoar has a ring that is too big for its metaphorical fingers. While all other rings in the solar system lie within or near a mathematically determined distance of their parent bodies, Quaoar’s ring

The site is part of a royal compound that archaeologists think may have been overseen by King Raedwald. Archaeologists in England have unearthed the 1,400-year-old remnants of a possible pagan temple or cult house that was once part of a royal compound. The discovery was made this summer during ongoing

The toilet was found in the Shaanxi province’s Yueyang City Ruins and was likely used by high-ranking officials during the early years of China’s first unified empire. Archaeologists in China have discovered one of the world’s oldest flush toilets, a “luxury object” that was likely used by elite individuals just

During the last ice age, which route was taken by the first humans to reach the Americas, and did they travel by foot, boat or both? Humans first arrived in North America at least 15,500 years ago. Exactly how they got there, however, constitutes one of the longest-standing debates in