4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1018+ words) For more than a decade, scientists have known that strange bacteria living in aquatic mud can conduct electricity along distances thousands of times longer than a single bacterial cell. Such long-range electrical conduction should be extraordinarily difficult for a living…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (551+ words) A new study published in Risk Analysis found that residents living within five miles of the former Santa Susana Field Laboratory reported autoimmune disorders at more than four times the rate of those living 11 to 15 miles away. Although SSFL was…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (684+ words) Nine centuries ago, people gathered at what is today recognized as the Etowah Indian Mounds site, located roughly 40 miles northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, for enormous community feasts. They ate, drank, and eventually discarded broken pottery into pits that would become…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (479+ words) Bat DNA may hold clues to a long and healthy life, according to an international team of researchers. These small creatures grace the night skies with extremely long lifespans and low cancer rates—traits that may ultimately benefit humanity if…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (708+ words) A massive chunk of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has broken away, forming an iceberg the size of Manhattan in what scientists say is the most significant Arctic calving event recorded in years. As the dramatic event unfolded, the European Space Agency’s…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (297+ words) After ten years of fieldwork in Taiwan’s remote mountain regions, researchers have identified an 84.1-meter (276-foot) Taiwania fir, now recognized as the tallest tree documented in East Asia. The team also found dense forests containing dozens of giant Taiwania firs,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (436+ words) This summer, people across the UK may be noticing more dead bumblebees on the pavement than usual, and scientists say there is a reason behind the phenomenon. The pattern results from a combination of naturally short life cycles, elevated temperatures,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (371+ words) The Grand Canyon, one of America’s most famous landmarks, may have been created when an ancient supercontinent cracked apart, according to new research. Roughly 800 million years ago, the supercontinent Rodinia broke apart in a gradual process, taking close to 300 million…...