As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté vegetables, add a nice crisp to some noodles, and more. Humans have been using olive ...
A new study suggests a single HPV vaccination appears just as effective as two doses at preventing the viral infection that ...
Scientists sequenced genomes from 28 individuals dated between 225 and 10,275 years old. These remains came from regions ...
A study reveals that traffic, not stubble burning, drives pollution spikes in Delhi, highlighting urgent air quality concerns ...
Centre for Science and Environment’s assessment notes that early winter pollution has stabilised at unhealthy levels driven largely by local emissions, even though stubble burning declined sharply ...
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The Ten Best Science Books of 2025

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...
Forty years ago, Voyager imaged Uranus and presented the world with a new mystery. Upon further inspection, it may have just ...
For years, critics have used fear of “IQ loss” to fuel campaigns against community water fluoridation. Public officials, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have called fluoride an “industrial waste”.
A new Swansea University study shows that AI doesn’t just automate tasks, it can make humans more creative, engaged and ...
A century-old North Atlantic cold patch is now linked to a long-term slowdown in the AMOC, the climate-regulating conveyor ...
Spaceflight, genetic tinkering, and the psychological implications of technological acceleration are explored with accuracy ...
High school students are increasingly turning away from their dream jobs towards more traditional roles as they reach the end ...