A report by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) warns that the widespread practice of giving antibiotics to livestock for growth promotion and the prevention of disease among animals in agriculture is making the drugs ineffective when they are needed to treat infections in people.
A new report by the World Bank reveals that climate change could force more that 100 million into living under the poverty line by 2030, thusly eliminating any gains.
Scientists have found the "fourth strand" of European ancestry. This population, discovered in the Caucasus mountains of Western Georgia survived for thousands of years, isolated from the rest of Europe due to the Ice Age. A small but significant portion of Europe's genome is derived from this unique population of hunter-gatherers, who came out of hiding, and mixed with the Yamnaya culture, which swept into Western Europe about 5,000 years ago.
Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected hints of periodic changes in the brightness of a so-called "active" galaxy, whose emissions are powered by a supersized black hole. If confirmed, the discovery would mark the first years-long cyclic gamma-ray emission ever detected from any galaxy, which could provide new insights into physical processes near the black hole.
Residents of the northeastern city of Shenyang in China donned gas masks and locked themselves indoors on Sunday after their city was enveloped by some of the worst levels of smog on record. Pollution readings were about 50 times higher than that considered safe by the World Health Organization.
In a study published in Science, researchers present new evidence that Earth has had its water since the very beginning, and did not arrive via asteroid as previously thought.
It is expected to be the largest telescope ever built. In a US led project, ground has been broken for the construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope, which will be built atop Cerro Las Campanas in Chile.
A new study published in Science offers clues as to why large large vertebrates disappear and take quite a lot time to come back, and return in much smaller size.
GJ 1132b is only 39 light years away. That's nearly a neighbor on the cosmic scale. It may be the closest Earth-size planet we've discovered. However, it most likely resembles Venus as far as surface temperatures.
New findings on Egypt's Khufu pyramid may indicate secret chambers.
In findings presented last week at the Meetings of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology in Texas, scientists identified the fossil remains of rats the size of small dogs found on the Indonesian island of Timor. According to archeological evidence from the area, humans (who were present in Timor starting at least 46,000 years ago) regularly hunted and butchered these megafauna.
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet environment that might have supported surface life to the cold, arid planet Mars is today.
In a deal linking the old and the new, NASA is officially partnering with the Houston Airport System to develop the commercial spaceport at Ellington Airport.
Using computer models, researchers from the University of Bristol found that the feeding style and dietary preferences of dinosaurs was closely linked to how wide they could open their jaws. In the case of the meat-eating Tyrannosaurus rex, they could open their jaws wide, up to 90 degrees.
According to a surprising new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, a decades-long decline in the death rate of middle-aged white Americans (age 45 to 54) has reversed in recent years. The causes are not the big killers such as heart disease and diabetes but an epidemic of suicides and substance abuse. The study was done by Nobel-winning researchers Angus Deaton and Anne Case of Princeton University.
An archeological site in Jersey, UK has yielded a stash of artifacts from the end of the last Ice Age. The fragments include stone pieces engraved with criss-crossed lines, possibly made over 14,000 years ago. Initial reports determine that these were made by the Magdalenians, a hunter-gatherer culture which gradually re-colonised Europe at the end of the Ice Age, 16,000 to 13,000 years ago.
Possibly due to excessive wet weather, a fissure in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains has grown to the size of nearly seven acres. Estimate to its size runs approximately 750 metres long and 50 metres wide.
In a research lab in Germany, researchers are preparing to switch on a 52-foot wide fusion device called a stellarator, that could change the game in fusion energy.
According to research led by University of Toronto and published in the The Astrophysical Journal, a close encounter with Jupiter approximately 4 billion years ago may have resulted in another giant planet’s ejection from the Solar System.
Strong rain caused by El Nino in Chile's Atacama desert treated us to a beautiful flower show.
According to a study led by MIT, Volkswagen's emissions cheat on their diesel vehicles will cause 60 people in the U.S. To die 10 to 20 years prematurely.
Much to their surprise, Scientists from the Rosetta mission say they have detected significant amounts of molecular oxygen coming out of a comet. This unexpected find may have implications for understanding how the solar system formed.
Engineers in Bristol have developed a system that manipulate small objects without touching them, using "holograms" made of sound waves. The technology could be used to one day deliver medicine.
In a study published in the journal Obesity, researchers from Touro University prove that just by replacing processed sugar, a group of obese children's health improved in 9 days.
According to a study published the journal Nature Climate Change, by 2100, parts of the Persian Gulf could be hit by waves of heat and humidity so severe that simply being outside for several hours could be life threatening.
According to a University of British Columbia study, only four percent of the ocean lies within marine protected areas. Their research was published in the journal Oryx.
Joy Milne, a woman from Perth, Scotland with a very sensitive nose, can recognize the odor of the onset of Parkinson's Disease before symptoms are observed.
According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a total of 11 cases have been reported in the United States since April 1st, 2015.
After scientists led by NASA publish a study in the journal Earth and Space Science, the U.S. Geological Survey issues statement that raises doubts on the studies earthquake forecasts for the greater Los Angeles area.
"God does not play dice," Albert Einstein once quipped. A study published in Nature gives the strongest refutation to date of Albert Einstein's principle of "local realism," which says that the universe obeys laws, not chance, and that there is no communication faster than light.
The American Cancer Society has issued new recommendations on when women should get mammograms and how frequently they should get them. This is in contrast to the previous guidelines which stated that women should get them at age 40.
According to a large study of dog DNA from around the world, the first domestic dog originated in Central Asia around 15,000 years ago.
Reporting in the journal Pediatrics, any amount of alcohol consumed by the expecting mother can cause fetal alcohol syndrome.
In research presented at IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, researchers, from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory suggest an algorithm can predict human intuition better than us humans.
The WHO report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, provides the first results of a long-term study on male Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone.
Researchers studying traditional societies found that they average about 6.5 hours per night.
Toxic methane appears to be bubbling up from plumes off of the Washington and Oregon coast. Methane is believed to be the second-largest greenhouse gas contributor to climate change.
Tourists in San Francisco witnessed a Great White Shark feeding on a seal in the bay while waiting to depart on the Alcatraz Ferry. A camera atop the ferry captured the attack in full.
Findings reported in Environmental Research Letters predicts plants will start budding three weeks sooner by end of century due to climate change.
Thanks to Yao's campaign with WildAid, support for a shark fin soup ban has skyrocketed in China.
Findings, published in the journal Nature, show that Homo sapiens arrived in China about 80,000 years ago, long before humans were able to leave their mark on Europe.
Boeing has invented microlattice, the lightest metal ever. The material that is 99% air, will be used for aerospace-engineering, such space as rockets.
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