Science

Daddy longlegs look like they have two eyes. That doesn...

Despite its two-eyed appearance, Phalangium opilio has six peepers. The four opt...

Male dragonflies’ wax coats might protect them against ...

The reflective wax, which cools males on sunny courtship flights, may also armor...

Don’t use unsterilized tap water to rinse your sinuses....

Two new studies document rare cases in which people who rinsed sinuses with unst...

The U.S. now has a drug for severe frostbite. How does ...

Iloprost has been shown to prevent the need to amputate frozen fingers and toes....

Male mammals aren’t always bigger than females

In a study of over 400 mammal species, less than half have males that are, on av...

Four years on, the COVID-19 pandemic has a long tail of...

Researchers are studying the magnitude and impact that grief from the COVID-19 p...

A decades-old mystery has been solved with the help of ...

Masked bees in Australia and French Polynesia have long-lost relatives in Fiji, ...

Big monarch caterpillars don’t avoid toxic milkweed goo...

Instead of nipping milkweed to drain the plants’ defensive sap, older monarch ca...

How air pollution may make it harder for pollinators to...

Certain air pollutants that build up at night can break down the same fragrance ...

This is the first egg-laying amphibian found to feed it...

Similar to mammals, these ringed caecilians make a nutrient-rich milk-like fluid...

‘Space: The Longest Goodbye’ explores astronauts’ menta...

The documentary follows NASA astronauts and the psychologists helping them prepa...

See 3-D models of animal anatomy from openVertebrate’s ...

Over six years, researchers took CT scans of over 13,000 vertebrates to make mus...

Forests might serve as enormous neutrino detectors 

Trees could act as antennas that pick up radio waves of ultra-high energy neutri...

‘Countdown’ takes stock of the U.S. nuclear weapons sto...

Physicists grapple with their role as stewards of the United States’ aging nucle...

The blood holds clues to understanding long COVID

A growing cadre of labs are sketching out some of the molecular and cellular cha...

Did the James Webb telescope ‘break the universe’? Mayb...

There’s no need for strange new physics to explain anomalously bright, massive g...

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