Some of medicine's smallest patients can present its biggest imaging challenges. An infant's heart can be as small as a walnut, beating rapidly inside a body that will change dramatically as the child ...

Dialog / Could we protect all western US communities from wildfires and facilitate restoring fire to wildlands within a decade? In a new study in Environmental Research: Ecology, I analyzed how fires ...

When humans are planning their future actions and decisions, they typically imagine situations or issues they could encounter and predict how they would respond in these imagined scenarios. This ...

Imagine if we could use strong electromagnetic fields to manipulate the local properties of spacetime—this could have important ramifications in terms of science and engineering. Electromagnetism has ...

Every inch dug deeper into the soil can reveal something that changes how we perceive ancient societies. A multiyear excavation near the 13th-century Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in ...

The deep ocean remains largely unexplored, despite containing a large portion of the living organisms and animals on Earth. Among the many creatures populating the deep-sea are so-called Cyclothone, ...

Why are there just 18 letters in the English alphabet? Because E.T. flew away riding a UFO with the CIA in pursuit. The mysterious UFOs! The recent official report on UFOs by the U.S. Office of the ...

An ancient hearth at El Salt (Spain) is giving up its secrets—not with flames, but with physics. Scientists have already established that Neanderthals used to make fires at this site (spanning from 80 ...

Cities from Paris to Prague have sweltered under record-breaking heat waves in recent years. In fact, Western Europe's average summer temperature has climbed by roughly 2.3°C since 1980, about triple ...

A recent study published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa presents the first millimeter-accurate recording of the paintings at Kakapel rock shelter in Kenya, linking the layers of rock art ...

Past research has shown that music is a significant source of nostalgia that boosts well-being and social bonds. In fact, hearing a tune from your youth is a powerful cue for rich, vivid memories. But ...

An hour after midnight on 26 April 1986, a catastrophic explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant caused loss of human life, left people scrambling to flee, and within days, the entire area of ...