Record wildfires scorched Spain and France, creating vast burn scars and a rare fire-powered cloud over France. Wildfires are a recurring summer threat across Europe, but the fires that swept through Spain and France in July 2026 ranked among the most destructive and disruptive either country had experienced in decades. Some of the most serious […]
Spain’s Largest Wildfire on Record Burned an Area the Size of New York City
Record wildfires scorched Spain and France, creating vast burn scars and a rare fire-powered cloud over France. Wildfires are a recurring summer threat across Europe, but the fires that swept through Spain and France in July 2026 ranked among the most destructive and disruptive either country had experienced in decades. Some of the most serious […]
Meet the 30-Million-Year-Old Dog That Climbed Trees Instead of Chasing Sticks
A nearly complete fossil shows that one early dog combined climbing ability with a body unlike those of modern running canids. For more than 30 years, a fossil roughly 30 million years old remained sealed inside rock in an Oregon museum collection. When paleontologists first recovered it, they believed it might belong to an oreodont, […]
Two Mysterious ‘Ghost’ Ancestors Are Hiding in Our DNA
Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred with the ancestors of modern humans, leaving recognizable traces in our DNA. Evidence now suggests that modern humans also interbred with two much older, unidentified ancestral groups. Hidden within the genomes of people alive today are fragments of DNA from two unidentified human ancestors. Researchers at UC Berkeley traced these genetic […]
Gut Bacteria May Leave a Lasting “Protective Memory” in the Intestine
A fiber-derived bacterial metabolite may leave a protective memory in the gut lining that supports long-term immune tolerance. A signal made by gut bacteria as they break down dietary fiber may continue shaping intestinal immunity long after the signal itself disappears. Northwestern Medicine researchers found that butyrate can leave a durable molecular imprint on the […]
Gut Bacteria May Leave a Lasting “Protective Memory” in the Intestine
A fiber-derived bacterial metabolite may leave a protective memory in the gut lining that supports long-term immune tolerance. A signal made by gut bacteria as they break down dietary fiber may continue shaping intestinal immunity long after the signal itself disappears. Northwestern Medicine researchers found that butyrate can leave a durable molecular imprint on the […]
New Antivenom Strategy Is 10 Times More Potent Than a Current Treatment
A new study provides a blueprint for the next generation of antivenoms by using snakes’ natural molecular defenses against their own deadly venom. Venomous snakes carry their own antidotes. Proteins circulating in their blood can block the toxins they produce, protecting the animals from accidental exposure to their own venom. University of Maryland researchers have […]
Scientists Find a New Way To Detect Hidden Water Ice on the Moon
By studying how seismic waves move through frozen soil on Earth, a geophysicist helped develop a more effective method for detecting water ice on the Moon. Beneath the Moon’s permanently shadowed polar craters, water ice may lie hidden beyond the reach of instruments in orbit. Researchers now think those buried deposits could be located by […]
Scientists Find a New Way To Detect Hidden Water Ice on the Moon
By studying how seismic waves move through frozen soil on Earth, a geophysicist helped develop a more effective method for detecting water ice on the Moon. Beneath the Moon’s permanently shadowed polar craters, water ice may lie hidden beyond the reach of instruments in orbit. Researchers now think those buried deposits could be located by […]
Scientists Find a New Way To Detect Hidden Water Ice on the Moon
By studying how seismic waves move through frozen soil on Earth, a geophysicist helped develop a more effective method for detecting water ice on the Moon. Beneath the Moon’s permanently shadowed polar craters, water ice may lie hidden beyond the reach of instruments in orbit. Researchers now think those buried deposits could be located by […]