Science

Unlike any other rocky planet in the solar system, the earth's surface is a giant puzzle, the pieces of which are constantly in motion. Each piece of the puzzle is a tectonic plate, enormous tartines from the planet's crust, and a rigid…

Ten thousand years or more ago, people began painting the walls of caves near Bhopal, India. Over the millennia, they made thousands of images in what is now the Bhimbetka Rock Shelters: men, women, a couple having sex, dancers, children,…

Now ignore the left row and the top column and fill in the remaining 100 fields with the names (or initials) of the party attendees. There are several ways to assign and swap squares. However, we recommend keeping this simple by randomly…

The Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University protected people from a new, more contagious variant of coronavirus on a similar level as protection against other lineages of the virus, Oxford researchers said in an…

Although clownfish are conceived on coral reefs, they spend the first part of their lives as larvae floating in the open ocean. The fish are not yet orange, striped or even swimming. They are still plankton, a term derived from the Greek…

Paul J. Crutzen, a Dutch scientist who received a Nobel Prize for work warning the world of the threat to the planet's ozone layer from chemicals and who continued to advocate action against global warming, died in Mainz on January 28th.…

Thousands of healthcare workers have already paid the highest price for their daily dedication. Since March, more than 3,300 nurses, doctors, social workers and physiotherapists have died of Covid-19, according to a balance sheet by Kaiser…

If you're hosting the party, keep the guest list as small as possible, ideally just one or two outside of your household. Alternatively, if you have been invited to a party, try to find out how many people will be there and what size party…

"If they're in a clinical trial with an experimental vaccine, they may get a vaccine sooner than usual," he said.If Novavax is successful, the new vaccine could add to an expanded portfolio of vaccinations in the US by late spring. Moderna…

A golden tongue would not have been uncommon at elite burials during the Ptolemaic and Roman times, said Lorelei H. Corcoran, director of the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archeology at the University of Memphis."In an Egyptian burial…