How physics can improve the urinal
Restroom visitors can expect cleaner knees and tidier floors, if they happen to use a new urinal inspired by curves in nature. The key...
Pollution mucks up the lungs’ immune defenses over time
The lungs’ immune defenses can wane with age, leaving older adults more susceptible to lung damage and severe bouts of respiratory infections. New research...
These devices use an electric field to scare sharks from fishing hooks
A new gadget takes advantage of sharks’ sixth sense to send the fish scurrying away from deadly hooks. Sharks, rays and their relatives can...
Carvings on Australia’s boab trees reveal a generation’s lost history
Brenda Garstone is on the hunt for her heritage. Parts of her cultural inheritance are scattered across the Tanami desert in northwestern Australia, where...
Louis Pasteur’s devotion to truth transformed what we know about health and disease
Great scientists become immortalized in various ways. Some through names for obscure units of measurement (à la Hertz, Faraday and Curie). Others in elements...
Some Maya rulers may have taken generations to attract subjects
Commoners may have played an unappreciated part in the rise of an ancient Maya royal dynasty. Self-described “divine lords” at a Maya site called...
UAE enhances attractiveness as a preferred destination
For people looking to relocate and work there in the year 2022, the UAE has solidified its place as one of the most desirable...
At a long COVID clinic, here’s how doctors are trying to help one woman who is struggling
Listen to this story about long COVID realities Click here for a full audio version of this story, read by Science News staff writer...
The pristine Winchcombe meteorite suggests that Earth’s water came from asteroids
Late in the evening of February 28, 2021, a coal-dark space rock about the size of a soccer ball fell through the sky over...
UAE is a committed partner for climate actions: US Secretary of Agriculture
The UAE is a strong and committed partner for climate action, and it is in their very best interests to steer climate-smart agriculture and...
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