Now, though, “chatfishing,” a new wave of online deception, is taking over dating apps. Instead of “catfishing”—using an ...

Trees’ inner heartwood harbors methane-producing microbes adapted to oxygen-poor swamps and cow guts ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...

For thousands of years traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners have checked patients’ tongues as part of a full examination, carefully scrutinizing their color, shape and coating in an ...

American Science and Surplus in Milwaukee is now owned by Kim Stenglein, a 22-year employee. The Milwaukee and Geneva, Illinois, stores were sold to employees. The Park Ridge, Illinois, location will ...

Chestnuts, once a staple in the American kitchen, especially among indigenous people, have all but disappeared. Yet, there are signs that chestnuts are reemerging as local and regional farmers are ...

In the 100th-anniversary year of quantum mechanics, which describes the universe at its smallest, most fundamental scales, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to three pioneers in bringing its ...

The new American pope, Leo XIV, has somehow managed, in the four months since his election, to stay mostly out of the news. His predecessor, Pope Francis, had been committed to expanding the church’s ...

How would you go about answering the question “How many people have ever lived on this planet?” If you type that into Google or an artificial intelligence chatbot, you’ll get an answer pretty ...

Jane Goodall, a British primatologist known for her work with chimpanzees, died on Wednesday 1 October, aged 91. She was in California on a speaking tour and died of natural causes, according to the ...

The US government shut down at 12:01 a.m. ET on 1 October, after lawmakers in Congress failed to agree on a funding bill to keep the government running. Threats of federal shutdowns have become ...

Iconic primatologist and conservation scientist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91 from natural causes, according to a statement from the Jane Goodall Institute, which she founded in 1977. Goodall ...