Specific outdoor air pollutants linked to asthma attacks in urban children

Moderate levels of two outdoor air pollutants, ozone and fine particulate matter, are associated with non-viral…

New type of entanglement lets scientists 'see' inside nuclei

Nuclear physicists have found a new way to use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to…

Climate risk insurance can effectively mitigate economic losses

Global warming is expected to lead to an accumulation of particularly intense hurricanes in the United…

Researchers detect fluoride in water with new simple color change test

Environmental contaminants like fluoride, lead and pesticides exist all around and even within us. While researchers…

Climate warming reduces organic carbon burial beneath oceans

An international team of scientists painstakingly gathered data from more than 50 years of seagoing scientific…

Hubble finds that ghost light among galaxies stretches far back in time

In giant clusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies, innumerable stars wander among the galaxies like…

Map of ancient ocean 'dead zones' could predict future locations, impacts

Researchers have created a map of oceanic ‘dead zones’ that existed during the Pliocene epoch, when…

Researchers reveal an added layer of nuance in our sense of smell

The delicate fragrance of jasmine is a delight to the senses. The sweet scent is popular…

Does COVID change the body's response to other threats? Depends on your sex, study finds

Researchers have found that immune systems of men who had recovered from mild cases of COVID-19…

Simple nasal swab can provide early warning of emerging viruses

Researchers have found that testing for the presence of a single immune system molecule on nasal…