Science

Genes may shape how long we live more than once thought

New research challenges the view that human life span depends mostly on lifestyl...

Artificial lungs kept a man alive until he could get a ...

A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Li...

Polar bears in the Barents Sea are staying fat despite ...

Polar bears can struggle to adapt to climate change. Bears on Svalbard may be su...

A massive clump of dark matter may lurk in the Milky Way

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be ab...

Whaling may have started 1,500 years earlier than alrea...

Specialized whale-bone harpoons from southern Brazil dating back 5,000 years sug...

AI tool AlphaGenome predicts how one typo can change a ...

The tool helps scientists understand how single-letter mutations and distant DNA...

What the new nutrition guidelines get wrong about fat

New U.S. dietary guidelines promote eating full-fat foods and meats. But experts...

The brain’s response to a heart attack may worsen recovery

In mice, blocking heart-to-brain signals improved healing after a heart attack, ...

Spider silk-making organs evolved due to a 400-million-...

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 millio...

This ancient stick may be the world’s oldest handheld w...

These 430,000-year-old wooden tools from Greece are a rare find and provide a gl...

Some vaccines are making progress in protecting vulnera...

Vaccines can be a crucial conservation tool. But getting shots to wildlife, and ...

The inner lives of animals

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses how scientists are beginning to study anim...

How Greenland sharks defy aging

When it comes to bucking the biological ails of aging, humans could learn someth...

It masquerades as malignant. But this bone-covered tumo...

Scientists have described a novel, yet benign bone-covered growth's characterist...

Physics theories about the multiverse are stranger than...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhab...

Seismometers can track falling space junk

As the threat of falling spacecraft increases, using earthquake sensors to detec...