The deadly “brain-eating amoeba” infection has historically occurred in South America. But in recent years cases have been appearing in a northerly direction, possibly due to climate change, a new study has found. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigated cases of brain-eating amoebae, known as …
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Life on earth is a delicate thing. One of the pathways it takes is asteroids and balms, the most influential group of land animals on our planet. If it weren’t for the 10-kilometer-wide meteorite that spanned Earth about a million years ago, dinosaurs would be able to maintain their dominance …
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Spending regular time in nature appears to have strong psychological benefits. As more compelling evidence emerges, doctors are increasingly promoting our mental health by writing down the time between greenery or nearby water. While those recommendations may help some people, new research suggests that there is a fine line between …
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Once a person becomes ill with coronavirus there is no guarantee that they will not contract it again, new research suggests. While SARS-Cavi-2 is the coronavirus that is the focus of the current world, there are many others we have known for decades who are not only known to infect …
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The world’s most advanced telescopes weren’t built for today’s temperatures, and they mess with our observations of the night sky. Three decades of value data – the home of the Paranal Observatory (the European Southern Observatory’s very large telescope (VLT)) in northern Chile – reveals many ways in which climate …
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