Insects are arguably the most important animals on the planet. Their variety is unparalleled in nature, and they carry out ...

Deep neural networks (DNNs), the machine learning algorithms underpinning the functioning of large language models (LLMs) and ...

University of Hawai'i at Mānoa oceanographers have identified PelV-1, a dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus whose ...

French firefighters said Thursday they were hoping to halt the country's biggest wildfire this summer that has left one ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of ...

France's top constitutional authority on Thursday blocked a law that would allow the reintroduction of a pesticide virulently ...

New York is waging a war on multiple fronts to combat the near ubiquitous rats that plague city streets and the subways, ...

Our ability to predict extreme weather from thunderstorms, like the recent catastrophic flash floods in Texas, is unsettlingly poor, even in the hours leading up to the event. Improvements in ...

It's August, which means Hot Science Summer is two-thirds over. This week, NASA released an exceptionally pretty photo of ...

If Earthlings are ever going to colonize Mars, they won't be able to do so on an empty stomach—and Temidayo Oniosun thinks a ...

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To our immune system, naked RNA is a sign of a viral or bacterial invasion and must be attacked. But our own cells also have ...