Science

By fluttering its wings, this bird uses body language t...

New observations suggest that Japanese tits gesture to communicate complex messa...

Here’s what distorted faces can look like to people wit...

A patient with an unusual variation of the condition helped researchers visualiz...

Dogs know words for their favorite toys

The brain activity of dogs that were expecting one toy but were shown another su...

Timbre can affect what harmony is music to our ears

The acoustic qualities of instruments may have influenced variations in musical ...

These are the chemicals that give teens pungent body odor

Steroids and high levels of carboxylic acids in teenagers’ body odor give off a ...

Human brains found at archaeological sites are surprisi...

Analyzing a new archive of 4,400 human brains cited in the archaeological record...

Not all cultures value happiness over other aspects of ...

Nordic countries topped the 2024 world happiness rankings. But culture dictates ...

American bullfrogs may be threatening a rare frog speci...

A search for environmental DNA from critically endangered Pithecopus rusticus fr...

50 years ago, superconductors were warming up

Superconducting temperatures have risen by about 250 degrees since the 1970s, bu...

Long COVID brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessel...

MRI scans of long COVID patients with brain fog suggest that the blood brain bar...

Titan’s dark dunes could be made from comets

Saturn’s largest moon could have gotten its sands from an ancient reshuffling of...

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...

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