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Certain health markers seem to “jump” during menopause, according to a new study, but it’s unclear why
We haven't written up this one. Scientific American has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
Where do most shark attacks happen in the U.S.? These 10 counties in Florida, Hawaii and South Carolina lead the nation in recorded bites
Daily Maverick’s Maverick Earth series examined Cape Town’s escalating baboon conflict from the perspectives of authorities, scientists, residents, conservationists and the baboons themselves.
Ancient cities — the kind we know of more through archaeology than written history — tend to have a bunch of features that set them apart from smaller, less ambitious settlements.
Idealism, it's often thought, runs high at either end of the age spectrum and sags in the middle. The altruistic inclinations of youth are set aside due to the professional and personal demands of…
Reaching net zero sooner would limit long-lasting changes to El Niño and the tropical Pacific, new climate modeling suggests, although heat stored deep in the ocean means changes to the tropical…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a possible supernova in the early universe just days after the star exploded.
