Learn about this vaccine-preventable disease that used to be common in childhood and is well known for a characteristic red, splotchy rash and high fever.
Write expressions with percents about raising red panda cubs.
@prograpslady @FluffyPira I turned around to get my phone and *poof* instant cat!
Facial recognition software refreshes the classic book's message on conservation
Most inventors strive for weeks, months, or years to perfect their products. (Thomas Edison tried thousands of different light bulb filaments before arriving at the ideal mixture of tungsten.) But sometimes, brilliance strikes by accident. Here's a salute to the scientists, chefs, and everyday folk who stumbled upon greatness – and, more important, shared their mistakes with the world.UPDATE: After great reader feedback, we've added five additional accidental inventions: Stainless steel, plastic, ice cream cones, Post-it Notes, and matches.
Two Okanagan teachers were honoured by B.C. Emergency Health Services in Oliver on Tuesday, for helping save the life of a student who went into cardiac arrest during gym class about a month ago.
The copy of the luxurious passenger ship, which sank in 1912 killing 1,500 people, will be a part of a grand theme park in Sichuan, south-west China, and is being painstakingly reproduced.
Only 800 Tapanuli orangutans are left and a new dam could push them to extinction, say campaigners.
When teenagers sleep for less than eight hours a night, they are at increased risk of suicide, being overweight, high rates of injury, poor sustained attention and low school grades.
Amanda Petrusich writes about a proposed Republican amendment to defang the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which celebrates its centennial this year.
01 February 2019 - Last Tuesday the Opening Ceremony of the International Year of the Periodic Table (IYPT2019) took place at the UNESCO HQ in Paris, France. Now that the year has officialy been opened, it is time to continue our celebrations! But first, let us take a look back.
More than 1,000 people spend their workdays in SubTropolis, an industrial park housed in an excavated mine the size of 140 football fields
NOAA is predicting a busy hurricane season this year. When hurricanes do form, the U.S. will name them from a list that's been in use since 1979.
"The technosphere is a major new phenomenon of this planet – and one that is evolving extraordinarily rapidly" – Professor Mark Williams, University of Leicester
A record-breaking 1.3 billion volts of electric potential were created in a thunderstorm, a voltage that may explain how high-energy gamma rays are made during storms
Police today increasingly embrace DNA tests as the ultimate crime-fighting tool. They once felt the same way about fingerprinting
At the height of the Cold War, America’s most secretive counterespionage effort set out to crack unbreakable ciphers
Wishing you a Happy International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements on the occasion of its 150th birthday in 2019!
Since the approval of the first gene therapy for blindness, there has been a wave of companies developing gene therapy treatments with the potential to cure different forms of genetic blindness.
The same traits that make these dogs adorable threaten their health and well-being
Installed in the wake of recent high-profile mass shootings, controversial facial recognition systems that scan students’ faces could be the not-too-distant future for schools across America and beyond.
Inside Beyond Meat's innovative future food lab
Law and science seek proof in similar ways, but at very different speeds
When its first stateside Speedfactory opens in Atlanta, Adidas will be chasing the future of automated manufacturing in America, too.
It’s a sobering moment when you realize you’ve been chewing on plastic.
Previously, precise facial mimicry has only been observed in humans and gorillas
Barbary macaques remain in Gibraltar thanks to a quirk of empire.
Safety vs. privacy
The Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment is taking a close look at seismic activity along the Alaska Peninsula to understand earthquakes in this little-studied region.
In this piece, columnist Jenn M. Jackson, discusses how concerns in marginalized populations about environmental pollutants like plastics are rarely acknowledged as part of the Plastic Planet series.
More than a year after leaving the hospital without a human heart, Stan Larkin, 25, trades his wearable total artificial heart for a real one. The surgery was a unique national triumph in efforts to replace the failing heart as heart disease grows and donor hearts remain scarce.
Wolves lead and dogs follow - but both can cooperate with us, say experts studying wolves tamed from birth.
An estimated 66 tons of feces left behind by climbers is coming out of the deep freeze on North America's highest peak
Earth's magnetic north pole has drifted so fast that authorities have had to officially redefine the location of the magnetic north pole. The extreme wandering of the north pole caused increasing concerns over navigation, especially in high latitudes.
Ever wondered how you could support ethical, sustainable businesses? Welcome to a new regular series highlighting products, services and organizations that are ‘doing well by doing good’. Did you know that the humble stick of gum is packed with artificial substances that are potentially toxic – like plastic, aspartame and BHT? One day after a...
