Smoke from 2015 Indonesian fires may have caused 100,000 premature deaths
In the fall of 2015, hazardous levels of smoke from agricultural fires blanketed much of Equatorial Asia. Schools and businesses closed, planes were grounded...
Nano-scale Canadian flag sets world record in lead-up to nation’s 150th birthday
The Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo set a world record for creating a Canadian flag measuring about one one-hundredth the...
Ancient skeleton discovered on Antikythera Shipwreck
Archaeologists Brendan Foley, Theotokis Theodoulou and Alex Tourtas excavate the Antikythera Shipwreck skeletal remains, assisted by Nikolas Giannoulakis and Gemma Smith.Credit: Photo by Brett...
Shedding light on Pluto’s glaciers
The polar cap of "Sputnik Planum," in false colors, is surrounded by mountains which have been eroded and shaped by the glacial activity. The...
Heatwaves in the ocean: Risk to ecosystems?
Kelp forests are a unique habitat that suffers under heat stress.Credit: © usoceangov / Flickr
Did you know that heatwaves not only occur on land,...
Unusual short burst of X-rays coming from slowest-spinning neutron star
Composite photo of the slowest-spinning neutron star discovered so far (9-2016): background stars photographed in optical wavelengths; colorful cloud is the supernova remnant RCW...
Targeting fat to treat cancer
Salk Institute researchers and collaborators develop novel cancer treatment that halts fat synthesis in cells. Placebo-treated cells (left) have far more lipid (red) production...
Scientists uncover insights into the formation of Earth’s oldest continental crust
Samples of the world's oldest precisely dated rock. Credit: University of Alberta
Addressing fundamental unknowns about the earliest history of Earth’s crust, scientists have precisely...
‘Gut feelings’ help make more successful financial traders
Financial traders are better at reading their 'gut feelings' than the general population -- and the better they are at this ability, the more...
Bird brain? Pigeons have quite a way with words
Image Credit: Flickr/sermoa
Pigeons can learn to distinguish real words from non-words by visually processing their letter combinations, surprising new research from the University of...
Holographic imaging and deep learning diagnose malaria
Four cells in different stages of infection from a malarial parasite as analyzed by a new algorithm. As the parasite matures in the images...
