After sunlight completes its eight-minute journey to Earth, white surfaces such as clouds send much of it bouncing right back into space. The whiter and brighter the cloud, the better...

Last summer, in various cities in the UK, more than 40,000 people visited the Dreamachine, a large space designed to induce hallucinatory experiences with white stroboscopic light and electronic music....

Glaciers in the Arctic are not nearly as devoid of life as they might appear at first sight.In fact, carpets of ice and snow in Greenland and Iceland are practically...

The Study Monitor/​CRA conduct monitoring visits for assigned trial protocol and trial sites. Overall responsibilities are to ensure that the trial is being conducted in accordance with the protocol, standard...

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

Hotta found, to his surprise, that a simple sequence of events could, in fact, induce the quantum vacuum to go negative—giving up energy it didn’t appear to have. “First I...

There's a harsh, brutal reality to the poultry industry, which in 2021 alone supplied about 286 eggs per person in a growing US population: Billions of male chicks are routinely...

NCBS Bengaluru, Karnataka Deadline 09 JuneEngagementContractHoursFull-timeWebsite ncbs.res.in → Profile NCBS invite applications from talented and motivated candidates to work on exciting projects related to molecular and cellular mechanisms involving host-pathogen...

As central Spain's Tirez Lagoon dried up over 20 years, becoming entirely desiccated by 2015, its barren landscape began to evoke arid Martian plains. That resemblance, it turns out, could...

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Seabirds evolved about 60 million years ago, as Earth’s continents drifted toward their current positions...