New research suggests bats can tolerate coronavirus and other viruses, offering hope for new approaches to fight viral diseases.
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The asteroid Bennu, which is considered part of an object outside the solar system, has the ingredients for life to form.
The discovery of amino acids and nitrogenous bases in samples from the asteroid Bennu supports theories about the extra terrestrial origin of the basic components of life on Earth.
A humble vegetable has been recognized as the most nutritious in the world and the curious thing is that almost no one eats it. Find out if you're overlooking it too.
New evidence suggests that rather than filling up gradually over 10,000 years or so, the Mediterranean Sea was refilled by an immense megaflood.
Pollution is one of the greatest environmental risks to human health. We explore its different forms, and for each group of pollutants how they end up affecting air, soil and water.
Microbes under beaches filter out harmful substances, but climate change and rising sea levels threaten their vital function, a study shows.
The Antarctic ice sheet acts as a barrier to protect the continental ice mass. Now new research is beginning to explain how the ice sheet is melting, where very small-scale processes matter.
Are plants actively signalling to each other about impending dangers, or gossiping and eavesdropping on their neighbours?
Among the mysteries of the early Universe that have not yet been solved is the recent one of the “red dots” discovered in 2022 by the James Webb telescope and whose nature is still being investigated.
Researchers challenge everything we already know about UV damage to the skin
A direct link between airborne aerosols spawned by wildfires and the formation of clouds over the Arctic has never been made. A new study published in Atmospheric Research has made one, which has illustrated the need for additional research in a changing climate.