Science

A California man has been confirmed to have contracted the plague earlier this week, the fifth case of the infamous disease in the United States this year. The man, a resident of South Lake Tahoe, was the first case of plague in California in five years, according to the El …

Lava tubes are caves created by lava as it flows from a volcanic ventilation beneath a hardened surface. On Earth, these lava tubes can be found in Hawaii, the Canary Islands, Australia and Iceland. They range in diameter from 33 to 98 feet. Lunar tubes on the moon and Mars …

According to researchers from the University of Illinois, a supernova 65 light-years from Earth probably caused a mass extinction event in the Late Devonian period, 359 million years ago. The researchers found radioactive isotopes in rocks that could possibly confirm such an event, as detailed in a new paper published …

A fishing vessel that left Seattle in May returned with an unexpected catch: the first direct evidence in humans that antibodies to coronavirus infection can be prevented. More than one hundred crew members aboard the American Dynasty were hit at sea over 18 days by the infection. But only three …

US Army develops self-healing and shape-shifting material that can lead to ‘Terminator-style’ drones morphing to adapt to new threats The U.S. military is in the early stages of designing a self-healing, shape-shifting material The material will have features of the T-1000 character of Terminator 2 It has a shape memory …