Iran’s water crisis | Queen Elisenda’s remains | Photosynthesis in mouse eyes

Iran is experiencing “water bankruptcy” that stems from decades of broken water governance and aggressive policies, and the current war is exacerbating the crisis.

War has overshadowed a dire water crisis in Iran that, among other things, caused the capital city of Tehran to nearly run out of water late last year.

In honor of the 700th-anniversary founding of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria Pedralbes in Barcelona, scientists opened eight 14th-century graves and studied the 25 people found inside, including a queen.

In the book “Bitter Honey,” writer and researcher Jennie Durant explores how industrial agriculture is destroying bees — and what can be done to stop them.

The James Webb telescope peered into an ancient spot of light, and found it to be the most metal-poor galaxy in the early universe.

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

Researchers have built a miniaturized microcomb-driven terahertz wireless communication system that’s 90 times smaller than conventional chips to deliver record-breaking data-transfer speeds at ultrahigh frequencies.

Special eye drops containing photosynthetic machinery from spinach leaves have helped combat dry eye, a new mouse experiment reveals.

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