What are the origins of Santa Claus?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain We’re all familiar with the jolly, white-haired and bearded overweight man who sneaks down chimneys on Christmas Eve delivering presents to children. But where did this …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain We’re all familiar with the jolly, white-haired and bearded overweight man who sneaks down chimneys on Christmas Eve delivering presents to children. But where did this …
Diel variations of bacterial production (BP), viral decay rate (VD), lytic viral production (Lytic VP), and lysogenic viral production (Lysogenic VP) in different water layers at the coastal station (J4) …
Apples used for data collection. Credit: Nikita Stasenko and coauthors A research team from Skoltech and Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation have presented a paper in which they pioneered …
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The global nature of child sexual exploitation and abuse demands it be treated as an international public health emergency, a landmark report suggests. Research by the …
by Andrew Edwards, Christine Schlesinger, Ellen Ryan-Colton, Greg Barber and Peter Jacklyn, The Conversation Credit: CC0 Public Domain As the semi-arid Pilliga Scrub burns in New South Wales, many of …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain While physicists continue to argue about whether time is indeed an illusion, as Albert Einstein claimed, biologists have no doubt about its significance for understanding life …
A desperate elephant feeds as it starts to rain in Hwange National Park in northern Zimbabwe where more than 110 have died in a searing drought in recent weeks. Storm …
The brutal cold follows a summer of record-smashing heat and devastating floods across the country’s north. More low temperature records tumbled across China on Thursday, as the country endures a …
Wildlife expert Junpei Tanaka uses kinder and smarter ways to keep both humans and bears safe in Japan as contact between the species increases. Thousands of bears are being shot …
Plastic utensils and straws have been used for decades in restaurants and cafes in Canada, but a crackdown on the cutlery has arrived. Canadian restaurants and cafes were no longer …