The extreme weather of this year’s mega El Niño could look different from past events. The waters off the coast of Peru are normally one of the most productive fisheries in the world, each year producing millions of tonnes of anchovies to be used for fertilizer and animal feed. ButContinue Reading
The world’s biggest sun-observing telescope spotted these swirls for the first time The most detailed pictures of the sun ever taken have caught a surprising new feature. High-energy whirlpools, it seems, speckle the surface of our star. The sun is a giant ball of superhot, electrically charged gas called plasma.Continue Reading
Scientists blasted diamonds with lasers to get the best measurement of the mineral’s melting point yet. The new, more accurate numbers could help improve fusion experiments and studies of giant planets. Scientists melted diamonds with a powerful laser to take some of the most precise measurements of the mineral’s elusiveContinue Reading
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 acrossContinue Reading
A multidecade study of wild chickadees shows how smart they need to be to survive A mountain chickadee waking up in the Sierra Nevada range on a snowy morning has no time to dawdle. Weighing about as much as a pencil, it needs to find stashed pine nuts within minutesContinue Reading
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 duringContinue Reading
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 ifContinue Reading
This is the black hole’s point of no return Event horizon (noun, “Ee-VENT hur-AYE-zon”) An event horizon is a boundary surrounding a black hole. Beyond this boundary, nothing — not matter, energy or any kind of information — can escape. A black hole is an ultradense object with extremely strongContinue Reading
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 tectonicContinue Reading
A recent academic discourse has brought renewed, gaining attention focus to the relevance of ancient Ayurvedic knowledge in enriching contemporary understanding of human anatomy, particularly concerning the anorectal region. This renewed interest reflects a broader effort to critically evaluate traditional medical systems within the framework of modern biomedical science. TheContinue Reading