Science

Science and environmental groups are celebrating triumph in their nearly decadelong battle against efforts to limit the kinds of scientific evidence that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can use in writing new regulations.

Disease ecologist Tony Goldberg was stunned in 2016 when he learned that a mysterious infection was swiftly killing chimpanzees at a lush sanctuary in Sierra Leone’s rainforest. “It was not subtle—the chimpanzees would stagger and stumble, vomit, and have diarrhea,” recalls Goldberg of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Sometimes they’d […]

The mosque was built in the late 600s.

President Joe Biden last week unveiled an ambitious conservation goal, unprecedented for the United States: conserving 30% of the country’s lands and waters by 2030, which would require more than doubling the area of public and private holdings under heightened protections.

Tangle-web spiders may not be the biggest or strongest arachnids on the block, but they’re master string pullers. A new study reveals the half dollar–size animals are able to nab prey 50 times their weight by skillfully manipulating the threads of their webs.

A study in Philadelphia found that this tranquilizer is involved in nearly one-third of fatal opioid drug overdoses there.

In a handful of instances, the U.K. coronavirus variant has developed a mutation called E484K, which may impact vaccine effectiveness.

The church dates back to the early Coptic era.