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Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest normally peak in March, but this year they're expected to last through to April at least, with a huge uptick expected in the coming weeks, scientists have warned.

Four years after being restored with steel frames, coral reefs in Indonesia damaged by blast fishing grow at the same rate as healthy reefs, but they have lower levels of species diversity

Proteins are social creatures. They're also chameleons. Depending on a cell's needs, they rapidly transform in structure and grab onto other biomolecules in an intricate dance. It's not molecular dinner theater. Rather, ...

Researchers mapped disease trajectories from birth to death, analyzing over 44 million hospital stays in Austria to uncover patterns of multimorbidity across different age groups. Their groundbreaking study identified 1,...

A team of physicists has developed a method to detect gravity waves with such low frequencies that they could unlock the secrets behind the early phases of mergers between supermassive black holes, the heaviest objects i...

The new processor stores data in modified DNA molecules and uses microfluidic channels to perform basic computations.

All known natural phenomena fit into just a few categories and unifying them all is quantum field theory, says physicist Matt Strassler

Palestinians face a protracted health disaster as physical injuries, mental health issues and malnutrition are widespread in Gaza - and major health groups have no firm plans to address it

Scientists think that by studying a cluster of "baby quasars," they can get a better understanding of supermassive black holes in the early universe.

A remotely controlled robot with an inflatable foot that oozes mucus can crawl across surfaces like a snail, and could inspire soft medical robots that move through mucus-lined cavities in the human body

A memory device that temporarily saves quantum information could become an important addition to quantum networks because it would allow users to salvage information if it fails to transfer properly

Microscopic worms in Chernobyl remain unscathed despite having been long exposed to radiation.

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is currently sailing past the Andromeda Galaxy in the night sky as it races toward Earth, and you can watch it live this weekend.

Researchers restored degraded lithium-ion batteries to nearly full capacity by injecting them with a chemical that creates more charged particles inside them

The oldest-known sex chromosome emerged in octopus and squid between 455 million and 248 million years ago -- 180 million years earlier than the previous record-holder, scientists have discovered.

The unique properties of quantum physics could help solve a longstanding problem that prevents microscopes from producing sharper images at the smallest scales, researchers say.

The proposed nuclear reactor, which could be transported and assembled without human assistance, would provide energy to a lunar base that Russia and China have agreed to build together.

A new study explores how the human brain constructs emotions, regardless of sensory input. By analyzing brain activity in individuals with and without sensory deprivations while they experienced the film 101 Dalmatians, ...

Researchers have identified a critical protein, FAM81A, that plays a pivotal role in forming postsynaptic protein agglomerations, essential for synaptic function in the brain. By analyzing 35 previous studies, the team d...

When answering questions posed in Chinese, French, German or Russian, large language models seem to process the queries in English, which could create cultural issues

Most people involved in the current parrot fever outbreak developed the disease after being exposed to infected wild or pet birds, the WHO said.

South of New Orleans, a project to divert the Mississippi river could restore ecosystems destroyed by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and build new land to protect against sea level rise