The same study finds humans make up 34% of the mammal biomass. But the livestock humans raise—including cattle, pigs, buffalo, sheep, goats, horses, camels, and asses—is 62%. In one sense, it could be ...

Some scientists are carrying out research to see if enzymes could play a key part in doing that job. An example is a Boston-based company called Breaking, which has taken up the mission to find a ...

Not everyone follows these factions, and some follow no religion. While estimates vary as to how many people worldwide identify as irreligious (atheist, agnostic, secularist, non-religious ...

According to the 2024 State of the Cruising Report published by the CLIA, there were 31.7 million passengers globally in 2023, up 6.8% from 29.7 million in 2019. Just over half (16.9 million) were ...

In 2024, total data “created, captured, copied, and consumed” was around 150 Zettabytes (10^18 bytes or 1 billion terabytes) and global mobile data traffic was around 125 Exabytes (10^15 bytes or 1 ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been publishing annual reports on world health statistics since 2005, with a focus on health-related sustainable development goals (SDGs) since 2016. WHO’s 2025 ...

Whether a resident or visitor to the US, air pollution—including particulate matter, carbon dioxide, and the like—is a concern given its potential health and environmental impacts. The American Lung ...

Furthermore, these AI-enabled computers are not solo desktops quietly humming in one’s home office. Instead, they are located in vast data centers filled with stacks of hardware. A 4 ...

Remote sensing enables users to “see” in a way that human eyes cannot and to extract and understand information that would otherwise be hidden. “This allows us to work in completely new ways and to ...

Researchers from Oregon State University conducted a study on the threat of climate change to wild animal species and biodiversity. The study, published in BioScience, assessed 70,814 species from 35 ...

When 89-year-old retired banker Donald Triplett died quietly at his home in Forest, Missouri, in 2023, his passing made headlines for one fact alone: He was the first person ever diagnosed with autism ...

Through some of Europe’s most stunning countryside, an epic 167-mile story flows—a story of how courage, determination, and sacrifice by ordinary people saved one of the continent’s last surviving ...