By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/26/2024 12:37 PM

Firefighters are battling a 'monster' wildfire in the evacuated town of Jasper and Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/26/2024 12:32 PM

Researchers think climate change will soon cause an increase in the incidence of Naegleria fowleri infections, a "brain-eating" disease. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/26/2024 12:32 PM

Many deadly infections are transmitted via water, including cholera, typhoid and brain-eating amoebas. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | emily.cooke@futurenet.com (Emily Cooke) | 7/26/2024 12:32 PM

In the U.S., tap water is generally safe and not a likely source of brain-eating-amoeba infections, experts told Live Science. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | emily.cooke@futurenet.com (Emily Cooke) | 7/26/2024 12:31 PM

A now-retired doctor in Texas describes his experience treating a child with a brain-eating amoeba infection. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/26/2024 12:30 PM

Doctors are pulling out new techniques and drugs in an effort to cure devastating brain infections. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/26/2024 12:15 PM

Three fossilized snakes that died huddled together 38 million years ago are now called the "winter serpents." ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/26/2024 10:01 AM

Instead of a gold medal, victors at the ancient Greek Panathenaic Games received terra-cotta pots filled with Athenian olive oil from sacred trees. ... Read full Story

By The Scientist | | 7/26/2024 10:00 AM

A member of the lung microbiota releases a peptide that hinders the respiratory pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 7/26/2024 9:49 AM

Scientists all over the world use modeling approaches to understand complex natural systems such as climate systems or neuronal or biochemical networks. A team of researchers has now developed a new mathematical framework that explains, for the first time, a mechanism behind long transient behaviors in complex systems. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 7/26/2024 9:09 AM

Despite its immense success in describing the fundamental building blocks of matter and their interactions, the Standard Model of particle physics is known to be incomplete. Experiments around the globe and in space are therefore searching for signs of new physics phenomena that would guide physicists towards a more comprehensive theory. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/26/2024 9:00 AM

Humans used the now-destroyed rockshelter throughout the last ice age until just a few decades ago. ... Read full Story

By The Scientist | | 7/26/2024 8:35 AM

Flies, worms, and fish with rapid development and characterized genetics help scientists uncover fundamental and universal biological processes, and shape cutting-edge research across disciplines. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | sascha.pare@futurenet.com (Sascha Pare) | 7/26/2024 8:00 AM

Lake Kivu, one of the African Great Lakes, sits along a tectonic plate boundary called the East African Rift, which is dotted with hot springs that feed carbon dioxide and methane into the water. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 7/26/2024 7:40 AM

In recent years, physicists and engineers have developed increasingly sophisticated instruments to study particles and the interactions between them with high precision. These instruments, which include particle detectors, sensors and accelerometers, could help researchers to study physical processes in greater detail, potentially contributing to interesting new discoveries. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 7/26/2024 7:00 AM

Japanese honeybees use their wings to slap back ants trying to invade their hive ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 7/26/2024 6:45 AM

It’s possible to see celestial objects during the day, but it’s not always easy ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 7/26/2024 6:30 AM

The basic notes, rests and harmonies of Western music arose as humans heard how sounds traveled through the first large temples, built more than 2,000 years ago ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 7/26/2024 6:00 AM

A group on the islands of Penghu is restoring ancient fishing weirs, hoping to preserve the sustainable fishing practice and attract ecotourism. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 7/25/2024 12:37 PM

During the hot summer of 2020, confined to his Pasadena home during the COVID-19 pandemic, National Medal of Science-winning applied physicist Amnon Yariv took frequent and long showers to cool off. A surprising result, to go with his record-breaking water bill, was a proposal and theoretical model for a new class of vibrations that can convert a constant force, such as wind or water, to a mechanical oscillation. ... Read full Story