A natural compound produced by the bacterium is wholly new to science, and in the lab, it shows cancer-fighting properties.
Over the past three decades, there has been a startling increase in the prevalence of obesity across the U.S., at least doubling in adult men and women since 1990.
In 2022, U.S. high school students Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson astonished teachers when they discovered a new way to prove Pythagoras' theorem using trigonometry after entering a competition at their local high school.
A study of more than 700 counties across multiple U.S. states found a link between childhood leukemia and levels of decaying radon gas, including those lower than the federal guideline for mitigation.
A new study documents how Southern Californians in U.S. are chronically being exposed to toxic airborne chemicals called plasticizers, including one that's been banned from children's items and beauty products.
A 58-year-old man in the United States is the first person in the world to have had his failing heart replaced with a temporary, titanium blood-pumper.
The loss of wolves to the region has been largely overlooked by humans, even in our scientific research, but the impact of their absence is written loudly in the missing trees.
The White House in U.S. has recently directed NASA to establish a unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies.
US authorities have issued the first-ever fine for space debris to a TV company that failed to properly dispose of a satellite. The company was fined €142,440 for "failing to properly deorbit" a satellite named EchoStar-7.
Many southwestern parts of the United States have been spotted with giant cracks or fissures in the ground. As per reports, these fissures have occurred due to harnessing groundwater indiscriminately over the years.
Scientists at the University of California San Francisco have developed a bioreactor device that uses human kidney cells cultured in the laboratory and mimics some of the key functions of a kidney.
Young environmental activists scored a ground-breaking legal victory in U.S. A Montana judge said state agencies were violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment by allowing fossil fuel development.
Such a breakthrough could one day help curb climate change if companies can scale up the technology to a commercial level in the coming decades.
Deep beneath the soil of a Massachusetts forest, an international team of researchers has uncovered a multitude of mysterious, gigantic viruses of unprecedented ecological diversity.
The company takes in batteries (from cars, laptops, phones, tablets, and other electronics) that are at the end of their useful life, then breaks them down and extracts metals like nickel, copper, cobalt, and lithium.
