Gen Alpha is about to have some competition.

On September 19, 2011, Scientific American published an article titled What Will the Next Influenza Pandemic Look Like? As the authors noted:

an inflammation of both sides of one section of the spinal cord. This neurological disorder often damages the insulating material covering nerve cell fibers (myelin).

The history of New Year’s resolutions was recently summarized by Sarah Pruitt:

When Dr. Peter McCullough, Nicholas Hulscher, and I investigated reports of what is being represented to the public as a new clade of H5N1 bird flu.

School science lessons could be made less “Western” with “no more heroes” in Labour’s “woke” overhaul of the school curriculum

The UK Met Office claims to have a continuous record of temperatures at Stornoway Airport going back to 1873, 64 years before the airport was built

In 2017, the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands deployed an artificial intelligence (AI) system to determine how likely welfare recipients were to commit fraud.

Last week, the study titled Effects of Microplastic Exposure on Human Digestive, Reproductive, and Respiratory Health: A Rapid Systematic Review by Chartres et al was published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology:

New remote sensing research (Gutiérrez-Hernández and García, 2025) uses robust statistical methods to eliminate false positives and spurious correlations in establishing vegetation trends in the satellite era

Humans are the smartest creatures on the planet and we’re by far the best at solving all sorts of cognitive tasks. Or are we?

We have heard alot about the safety of drinking water and contaminants such as fluoride, aluminum, and lead, but not much on the issue of industrial waste in the form of microplastics

From the end of the Roman occupation through the Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions – a new way of testing DNA in ancient bones could force a rethink of key moments in Britain’s early history, say researchers

Earlier this year, scientists stumbled upon a potential new treatment for hereditary-patterned baldness, the most common cause of hair loss in both men and women worldwide

It’s been nearly 200 years since a global cold snap led to widespread crop failures and devastating famines