Science

Messed-up metabolism during development may lead guts t...

Tadpoles exposed to a metabolism-disrupting herbicide had malformed intestines, ...

A new book explores the transformative power of bird-wa...

In Birding to Change the World, environmental scientist Trish O’Kane shows how b...

Taking a weight-loss drug reduced a craving for opioids

Early results from 20 people with opioid use disorder raise hopes that popular w...

Ancient viruses helped speedy nerves evolve

A retrovirus embedded in the DNA of some vertebrates helps turn on production of...

Here’s how scientists reached nuclear fusion ‘ignition’...

The first fusion experiment to produce an energy excess required meticulous plan...

These South American cave paintings reveal a surprising...

Radiocarbon dates point to an artistic design practice that began in Patagonia a...

Newfound immune cells are responsible for long-lasting ...

A specialized type of immune cell appears primed to make the type of antibodies ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex nabbed over 120 grams of space rocks ...

After being stymied by two stuck screws, NASA finally accessed a trove of Bennu ...

Mixing up root microbes can boost tea’s flavor

Inoculating tea plant roots with nitrogen-metabolizing bacteria enhances synthes...

Does this drone image show a newborn white shark? Exper...

If a claim of the first-ever sighting of a newborn white shark holds, it could h...

U.S. opioid deaths are out of control. Can safe injecti...

A new NIH study will evalute the only two officially sanctioned sites, in New Yo...

Could a rice-meat hybrid be what’s for dinner?

A hybrid food that combines rice, animal cells and fish gelatin could one day be...

Migratory fish species are in drastic decline, a new UN...

The most comprehensive tally of how migrating animals are faring looks at more t...

This Stone Age wall may have led Eurasian reindeer to t...

Hunter-gatherers living 10,000 years ago in what is now Germany probably used th...

50 years ago, evidence showed that an extinct human anc...

Fossil finds have since pushed back the ability of hominids to walk on two legs ...

How do babies learn words? An AI experiment may hold clues

Using relatively little data, audio and video taken from a baby’s perspective, a...

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