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In medieval Italy, it was accepted wisdom that anyone walking near a swamp risked falling ill from “bad air” — mala aria. Victims were struck with fever, headache, nausea, and chills, and occasionally the illness escalated to vomiting, jaundice, and death. Today, we still call this affliction malaria. For much of human history, it has […]

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter With artificial intelligence (AI), scientists have a powerful new tool for creating never-before-seen proteins, which can be used to make either groundbreaking new medicines or devastating bioweapons. To help guard against nefarious uses of these proteins, scientists have recently figured

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter TENERIFE, Spain — The commander of NASA’s Artemis II mission briefly feared that he and his crew would never return home from their trip around the moon after overshooting their turn-back point. Commander Reid Wiseman and his three crewmates were

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter On Monday (Oct. 19), Japan’s space agency launched a first-of-its-kind sample-return mission to Mars. The historic endeavor marks another major step toward humanity’s shared goal of understanding — and perhaps eventually colonizing — one of our closest planetary neighbors, experts

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is surrounded by a surprising trove of heavy metals, according to new observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The metals may offer new clues about how Earth got its share of heavy

On a frigid February morning in Edinburgh, Scotland, Patrick Hickey had run out of living things to put under his microscope. The plants and fungi in his garden had dried up, and summer puddles, with their flamboyant biological complexity, had long frozen over. Hickey, a mycologist at Hypha Research Ltd., was using plant leaves to

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Astronomers have discovered the lightest known pair of neutron stars — two ultradense stellar remnants that circle each other every 2 hours, 22 minutes, veering toward an inevitable collision about 82 million years from now. By timing radio pulses from

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter In the late 1800s, Westminster Abbey clergy stumbled upon a mysterious sarcophagus. The lid was decorated with an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon cross, but the base had a fourth-century Roman funeral inscription. For nearly 150 years, the tomb has baffled experts, but

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Last year’s massive earthquake in Myanmar could help researchers better predict where the worst shaking will be if the “Big One” hits the San Andreas Fault in California. The magnitude 7.7 quake hit on March 28, 2025, near the city

QUICK FACTS Where is it? Southern Europe and North Africa What’s in the photo? Land and sea surface temperatures during one of Europe’s record-breaking summer heat waves Which satellite took the photo? Sentinel-3B When was it taken? June 23, 2026 This striking satellite snap shows the scorching land and sea surface temperatures that hit Southern