Mercury exposure is widespread among Yanomami tribe in Amazon, a report finds
BRASILIA, Brazil — Many Yanomami, the Amazon’s largest Indigenous tribe in relative isolation, have been contaminated with mercury coming from…
Your Brain Finds It Easy to Size Up Four Objects But Not Five–Here’s Why
For more than a century, researchers have known that people are generally very good at eyeballing quantities of four or…
JWST Finds Strange Harmony in Early Galaxies and Black Holes
Proportions—think of the golden ratio and its kindred—are the bedrock of our reality, found in everything from music to the…
Hubble Space Telescope finds boulders potentially shaken off asteroid following DART experiment
The Hubble Space Telescope has found a swarm of boulders that were potentially shaken off the asteroid Dimorphos following NASA’s…
Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals, study finds
Some paper and bamboo straws contain so-called “forever chemicals” that could make them a less-than-ideal alternative to plastic, researchers have…