US hospitals continue to close labor and delivery services
Increasingly, people giving birth cannot count on their nearest hospital to have the specialist health care they need. The researchers […]
Some countries have eliminated malaria, but cases are increasing elsewhere
The world has made progress towards eliminating malaria, with 44 countries and one territory (La Réunion) certified as malaria-free. Egypt,
What causes rivers to suddenly change course?
Displacement is in the nature of a river. But when a river breaks from its channel and carves a new
There is a new term for trying to master the wind
Wind ownership is available. As an unpaid intern at an energy company in England, Emilia Groupp spent two years creating
How tiny phytoplankton travel long distances up the ocean
It’s one of the most massive migrations on Earth: a huge biomass of tiny plankton traveling from the deep sea
Preserving Mexico’s spruce forests can help monarch butterflies
An experiment to grow new forests in central Mexico offers hope that crucial winter habitat for millions of migrating monarch
How did dark matter form the universe? This physicist has ideas
At the age of 12, Tracy Slatyer felt sorry for a book. She read a newspaper article about how many
Fans may not keep the elderly cool during heat waves
Air blown from an electric fan alone is not enough to cool older adults who are suffocating indoors in a
Saturn’s first Trojan asteroid has finally been discovered
Astronomers have finally found an asteroid that keeps pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called
This light-based engineer’s computers take inspiration from the brain
Bhavin Shastri still gets excited when he sees a laser pointer and has been fascinated by them since he was