Most healthy people experience little variation in their heart rates at rest, but a new study shows that normal resting heart rates can differ between individuals by an astonishing 70 beats per minute. The findings challenge the conventional approach to…
Students are taken to a special army facility as a precaution against the possible coronavirus infection on their return from China, at Indira Gandhi International Airport, on Feb. 1, 2020 in New Delhi, India. The passengers were evacuated from Wuhan…
In today’s episode of our Life’s Little Mysteries podcast, we’ll take a closer look at one of the most puzzling animals on our planet, and one that you may share your home with: cats. Why do cats love boxes, why…
An illustration shows what the interior of IceCube might look like without the ice. Where do neutrinos get their mass from? It’s a mystery, one of the most baffling in the Standard Model of particle physics. But a team of…
The coronavirus particle has a crown of spikes on its surface. The new coronavirus outbreak has made headlines in recent weeks, but there’s another viral epidemic hitting countries around the world: flu season. But how do these viruses compare, and…
Trees struggle to remain upright in a lake formed by abrupt permafrost thaw. Arctic permafrost can thaw so quickly that it triggers landslides, drowns forests and opens gaping sinkholes. This rapid melt, described in a new study, can dramatically reshape…
Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, uses thermal imaging to screen passengers for coronavirus on on Jan. 27, 2019. It’s not clear whether such screening methods will be able to stop the spread of coronavirus in the United States,…
n The Super Snow Moon will appear in the early hours of February 9, with the official peak happening at 07:33 GMT, according to NASA n If you’re a fan of stargazing, make sure you book this Sunday morning off…
A binary pair of red dwarf stars might be warping space-time and distorting our view of another star much, much farther away. In summer 2016, astronomers watched a star 2,500 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation flash to life as…
A satellite view of an ice ring on Lake Baikal. Is it the one true ring to rule them all? The humongous, mysterious “ice rings” that pockmark the world’s deepest lake during Siberia’s winter and spring months may look like…