Forty Thousand Cubic Meters of Fresh Water Flow from the Congo into the Atlantic Every Second. A New Study Traces Where It Goes from There. Every second, the Congo River releases about 40,000 cubic me...
A new species of spider from the Ecuadorian Amazon: Taczanowskia waska. Credit: David Diaz-Guevarra Researchers exploring Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest thought they had spotted a small mushroom cl...
pc: Discover Magazine (Image Credit: Dr Stephen Chester) A tiny tooth can disappear between your fingertips without much effort. Yet some of the earliest clues to our own evolutionary story come from ...
For decades, Yellowstone has been held up as one of the clearest examples of a volcanic system fed by an immense column of hot rock rising from deep within the Earth. That picture has shaped scientifi...
Image: Left/Canva/Right/AI Generated For billions of people, rice is more than a daily meal; it is the foundation of food security, culture and livelihoods. Every grain harvested represents centuries ...
Scientists at IIT Kanpur have uncovered how a little-understood immune system receptor works, solving a question that has puzzled researchers for years and helping improve medicine targeting.The study...
Around three billion years ago, long before animals, forests, or even complex life existed, a large asteroid struck a young Earth. The collision happened at a time when the planet looked very differen...
When the Pacific Ocean carried the effects of a powerful earthquake away from Russia’s far eastern coast in late July, most attention focused on the tsunami warnings issued across the region. Less vis...
New scientific research suggests that ageing may not occur gradually throughout life. Studies from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Stanford University indicate that the body experiences important ...
A human brain that may date back more than two millennia has been recovered from a skull unearthed near York, offering an unusual case of soft tissue survival in Iron Age archaeology. The remains were...