Scientists have cracked the perfect way to boil an egg – astonishingly, it takes half an hour. It is one of the undisputed facts of life that it is notoriously difficult to cook a perfectly ...

However, not all experts accept the validity of her results. The possibility of a brain microbiome keeps scientists engaged in a lively discussion with crucial ramifications toward a possible role for ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A rise in global warming to 2°C above preindustrial levels could triple the Earth's land area too hot for humans, affecting 6% of the planet. This would pose a ...

Humanity is closer to destroying itself, according to atomic scientists who revealed on Tuesday that the famous “Doomsday Clock” was set to 89 seconds to midnight — the closest it has ever been.

Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of lives upended by the 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima. Armed with ...

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Scientists aboard the research vessel Reuben Lasker were conducting surveys of marine life off the Southern California coast in early January when ash from the Los Angeles wildfires began to rain ...

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday ...

Scientists are pioneering an underwater living space and hope to have permanent bases underwater in 2027, as ITV News' Science Correspondent Martin Stew reports Oceans cover two-thirds of our ...

A research team led by Associate Professor Ding Pan from the Departments of Physics and Chemistry at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with Professor Yuan ...