Science

Need to keep cockatoos out of your trash? Try bricks, s...

In Sydney, humans may be in an escalating arms race with cockatoos. People are t...

How living in a pandemic distorts our sense of time

The pandemic has distorted people’s perception of time. That could have implicat...

Can’t comb your kid’s hair? This gene may be to blame

Scientists linked variants of one hair shaft gene to most of the uncombable hair...

Why once-gold ceilings in Spain’s Alhambra palace have ...

Moisture infiltrated flawed gilding at the iconic palace, leading to corrosion t...

A carbon footprint life cycle assessment can cut down o...

As companies try to reduce their carbon footprint, many are doing life cycle ass...

How to make recyclable plastics out of CO2 to slow clim...

Companies are turning atmospheric CO2 from smokestacks and landfills into plasti...

An AI can decode speech from brain activity with surpri...

Developed by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, the AI could eventually be used to...

DNA reveals donkeys were domesticated 7,000 years ago i...

When and where donkeys were domesticated has been a long-standing mystery. DNA n...

How the COVID-19 pandemic may leave a long-term imprint...

As much as we want to put the pandemic in the rearview mirror, the coronavirus’s...

Living fast may have helped mammals like ‘ManBearPig’ d...

Staying in the womb for a while but being born ready to rock may have helped pos...

Living fast may have helped mammals like ‘ManBearPig’ ...

Staying in the womb for a while but being born ready to rock may have helped pos...

How mythology could help demystify dog domestication

The path that dog myths took around the world closely parallels that of dog dome...

The oldest known surgical amputation occurred 31,000 ye...

A young adult on the island of Borneo survived a lower left leg removal thanks t...

A coral pollution study unexpectedly helped explain Hur...

Tracking coral reef pollution in Puerto Rico, conservation researchers discovere...

Meet the fungal friends and foes that surround us

Keith Seifert’s book 'The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi' explores how microfungi shape...

The worldwide water-lifting power of plants is enormous

The power expended per year by the world’s plants via evaporation rivals the amo...

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