The story starts in 2023 when scientists at the Taï Chimpanzee Project in Côte d'Ivoire found a troop of sooty mangabeys ( Cercocebus atys) that had been struck with Mpox. The virus spread ...

"The screeching sound of peeling tape consists of a train of weak shocks that are generated when the transverse fracture ...

"The polarized light of the cosmic microwave background is sensitive to new physics that violates parity symmetry," the team ...

Some of the weirdest ecosystems may exist in tandem with ancient water trapped kilometers underground in fractures of Precambrian shield rocks. This geology dates to the earliest part of Earth's ...

T o the untrained eye, the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC), in northeastern South Africa, is kind of unassuming. It’s roughly the same size as West Virginia – or, for metric users, the Republic of ...

C utting about the tropical wetlands of South America is a bizarre bird that’s a “unicorn” amongst its peers in more than one sense of the word. Like the mythical creature, it has a “horn” on its head ...

The bacteria that have been enlisted for this cancer -fighting quest are called Clostridium sporogenes. They usually live in soil, because they need an environment with no oxygen at all. As it turns ...

In among all that life, the swamplands can cut a striking image. Lake Mai Ndombe, and its neighbor Lake Tumba, are both what’s known as “blackwater” lakes – the water, darkened by millennia of dead ...

That's because a fragment of it landed in the family driveway, where the Wilcocks saw it in the morning. They described it as if someone had thrown a piece of coal at the ground. It actually made a ...