Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which means “sugar-loving fungus,” is the yeast that humans know and love for bread-making and beer-brewing. With people confined to their homes, there is more interest in home-baked bread than ever before. And that means a lot of…
Archaeological investigations following the opening of a sinkhole in Piazza della Rotonda in front of the Pantheon in Rome have unearthed the ancient pavement of the imperial era. A sinkhole unexpectedly opened up in front of the Pantheon in Rome…
Five people living in the same residential block were discovered as having Covid-19, it has been reported, as the Jilin region said it was now in ‘war-time mode’ to stop a surge of new cases Wuhan has reported its first…
Curiosity can handle the harsh radiation on the Martian surface. But people can’t. There’s no safe place to camp out on Mars. But a team of researchers has identified what could be future Martian explorers’ best possible hideout: a string…
This is the largest piece of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, which is on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece. The Histories by Herodotus (484BC to 425BC) offers a remarkable window into the world as it was known to the ancient Greeks…
As a physician, mother, daughter and socially responsible human, I’m finding Mother’s Day to be complicated for me this year, as it is for millions. Questions of whether and how to see my adult children and my own elderly mother…
A National Weather Service map shows where freeze warnings (navy) are in effect for this weekend. Temperatures are expected to drop to record lows for this time of year across much of the northern U.S east of the Rocky Mountains.…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first at-home saliva collection test for COVID-19, which people could use to sample their own saliva and send it into a lab for results. Developed by RUCDR Infinite Biologics, a…
If you were told this beef was lab-grown human meat, would it look more or less appealing? Richard Dawkins wants to know if lab-grown meat will eradicate the taboo against cannibalism. In a tweet on March 3, the outspoken evolutionary…
CT scans revealed a dense mass distending the lizard’s abdomen. A greasy, sandy diet left a northern curly-tailed lizard with a belly distended by a heavy ball of unpassable poop. The mass was so large that it made up nearly…