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Caffarelli, 74, takes top trophy for work on partial differential equations, the first winner from South AmericaFirst football, and now maths. Three months after Lionel Messi triumphed at the World Cup, an Argentinian has won the top international trop…
The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains of central Mexico dropped 22%, and the number of trees lost in their favored wintering ground more than tripled compared to last year.
Between 2020 and 2021 cases of Candida auris doubled, with symptoms including antibiotic-resistant high fever with chillsPotentially deadly fungal infections with Candida auris are spreading rapidly in US healthcare facilities, with cases nearly doubli…
Previously unseen genomic samples suggest animals at Huanan market were potential sourceNewly released data from early in the Covid-19 pandemic has offered a crucial insight into the outbreak’s origins, suggesting that Covid-infected animals were prese…
Spring has sprung: Monday marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.
Long-tailed macaques at risk of being killed, or laundered or re-trafficked if returned to Cambodia, animal welfare groups sayMore than a thousand Cambodian monkeys at the center of a US government investigation into wildlife trafficking are at risk of…
Archaeologists say they have found the oldest pearling town in the Persian Gulf on an island off one of the northern sheikhdoms of the United Arab Emirates.
Long-time Slashdot reader turp182 shares two stories about the new state-of-the-art in very-high-speed imaging. “The techniques don’t image captured photons, but instead ‘touch’ the target to perform imaging/read structures using either lasers or neutr…
Discoveries that could help diabetics titled in honour of activist and journalist murdered in AmazonScientists in Brazil have found two new species of fermenting yeasts and named them after journalist Dom Phillips and activist Bruno Pereira, the two me…
Melbourne forecast to reach 37C while northern regions of the state could exceed 40C. This blog is now closedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastFederal government welcomes decision to hear MH17 caseThe federal gove…