Category: Science

Beirut residents began to clean up their city soon after a 4 August explosion. Researchers are testing air and dust samples for toxic compounds. AP Photo/Hassan Ammar By Rasha AridiSep. … Read More

Apartment buildings in Guangzhou, China, where toilet waste pipes may have carried the novel coronavirus from one infected family’s bathroom to people living above them. Prisma Bildagentur/Universal Images Group via … Read More

 A pothole being fixed in Southern California.  Scott Varley/Digital First Media/Torrance Daily Breeze via Getty Images By Erik StokstadSep. 3, 2020 , 11:15 AM The smell of summer in Los … Read More

If umifenovir, a broad-spectrum antiviral, can fight COVID-19, then computer-designed synthetic routes could make it easy and cheap to produce. Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Robert F. ServiceAug. 7, … Read More

NJIT; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Rennes, France By Lucy HicksAug. 6, 2020 , 11:00 AM A new fossil reveals how a mysterious ancient insect captured its meals. The … Read More

Rox Middleton By Charlotte HartleyAug. 6, 2020 , 11:00 AM With their dazzling metallic hue, the blue fruits of the laurustinus shrub (Viburnum tinus), a flowering plant popular in gardens … Read More