Technology

In 1346, Tartar leader Khan Janibeg laid siege to a Genoese city in Crimea called Kaffa in hopes of removing...

A change in the proteins secreted by astrocytes, star-shaped cells that support neurons, may contribute to the atypical firing patterns of neurons...

After sunlight completes its eight-minute journey to Earth, white surfaces such as clouds send much of it bouncing right back...

On April 5, 1909, a newspaper called the Arizona Gazette published an article on the front page of its evening...

On March 11th 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that COVID-19 was a global pandemic. In the fight against...

Editor’s Note (5/26/23): The Food and Drug Administration has formally approved the antiviral Paxlovid as a treatment for COVID. This...

As the old saying — often attributed to Bette Davis — has it, “Getting old ain’t for sissies.” For most...

Although scientists often assume that synonymous mutations don’t cause any biological effects because they don’t alter the amino acid sequence,...

As central Spain's Tirez Lagoon dried up over 20 years, becoming entirely desiccated by 2015, its barren landscape began to...

A huge "smokestorm" from blazing Canadian wildfires made headlines around the world recently. Now, NASA imagery shows the smoke was...