Killer heat waves will become increasingly prevalent in regions across the globe as warming of the planet continues, climate scientists say. However most projections leave out a major factor, humidity, which could worsen things by greatly magnifying the effects of heat alone. Now, a new global study projects that in coming decades the effects of …

It was a year of endings and beginnings: the plucky Cassini spacecraft’s 13-year-long mission reached its finale, while the fledgling field of gravitational wave astronomy bagged the catastrophic collision of two dead stars. Star crash In 2017, scientists detected Einstein’s gravitational waves from a new source – the collision of two dead stars, or neutron …

Chemotherapy has a lot of terrible side effects and that’s partly because the drugs being used to fight cancer also attack healthy cells. Figuring out a way to deliver drugs to tumors without affecting healthy tissue is a challenge and a problem that researchers are trying to solve. One group working on this problem, New …

Scientists say they have made a step forward in the fight against a wheat disease that threatens food security. Wheat is a staple food crop, making up a fifth of the calories on our plates. But in many parts of the world, the crop is being attacked by stem rust (black rust), a fungus that …

What would you consider to be the quintessential sounds of Earth? When NASA launched the Voyager in 1977, the ship contained two “Golden Records,” both containing image and sounds which aimed to represent the essence of our planet. Track titles on the record included names like “Kiss, Mother and Child,” “Train,” and “The First Tools.” …