Botanists in Thailand have identified a new-to-science species of “fairy lantern” — plants that live almost entirely buried under leaf litter, emerging aboveground only occasionally to flower. Researchers were surveying evergreen forests in
Aboard a spacecraft, the air astronauts breathe is a closed loop, recycled endlessly through ducts, filters, and scrubbers with no open window to dilute whatever accumulates inside. A new computational study published in
Osteoporosis has long been treated as a disease of bone tissue alone, a slow thinning of the skeleton driven by aging, estrogen loss, and an imbalance between the cells that build bone and
Gastric cancer remains one of the world’s deadliest malignancies, ranking fifth among the most commonly diagnosed cancers and accounting for roughly 7.7 percent of all cancer-related deaths. A major underlying cause is chronic
JAKARTA — As fires continue to engulf large swaths of forest in Indonesian Borneo, orangutans have increasingly fewer places to flee, with fires either surrounding them or eliminating the forest on which they
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis came to San Francisco on Monday night to promote Greece, but he also did something that heads of state on trade missions don’t typically do. In front of
Starting Wednesday, Discord, the community messaging platform, will roll out age verification measures to all users. The rollout comes after the company initially delayed its age verification plans in February due to backlash
With many plans for crewed missions to the Moon and Mars, and commercial space flights becoming more common each year, there is a growing need to develop medical procedures that will address the
In Australia in May 2026, Yang Zeng, a 28-year-old Chinese national who was unlawfully in the country, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Zeng was convicted on nine charges
