Science

Scientists and fishers have teamed up to find a way to ...

Thousands of at-risk manta and devil rays become accidental bycatch in tuna fish...

Quantum ‘echoes’ reveal the potential of Google’s quant...

Google says its quantum computer achieved a verifiable calculation that classic ...

Most women get uterine fibroids. This researcher wants ...

Biomedical engineer Erika Moore investigates diseases that disproportionately af...

A tiny, levitated glass sphere behaves like the hottest...

At an effective temperature of 13 million kelvins, the jiggling glass sphere cou...

An ancient bone recasts how Indigenous Australians trea...

A new look at cuts on a giant kangaroo bone reveal First Peoples as fossil colle...

COVID-related smell loss may last years

Using a scratch-and-sniff test, researchers discovered that smell loss after COV...

Even for elite athletes, the body’s metabolism has its ...

While ultramarathoners are capable of huge energy spurts, overall the athletes t...

Guppies fall for a classic optical illusion. Doves, usu...

Comparing animals’ susceptibility to optical illusions can show how perception e...

Big questions on how food affects our health

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute explores the science behind major questions on food ...

A rice weevil frozen in flight won the 2025 Nikon Small...

From fluorescent ferns to sprawling neurons, this year’s winning photos reveal t...

As wildfires worsen, science can help communities avoid...

Blazes sparked in wild lands are devastating communities worldwide. The only way...

Our relationship with alcohol is fraught. Ancient custo...

As evidence of alcohol's harms mounts, some people are testing out sobriety. Loo...

An estimated 54,600 young children are malnourished in ...

A study that screened young children in Gaza for malnutrition found that nearly ...

These ancient bumblebees were found with their pollen s...

Insects have long pollinated plants, but evidence of ancient pairing is rare. Fo...

Fossil hand bones point to tool use outside the Homo li...

The fossil wrist and thumb bones suggest Paranthropus boisei could grasp tools a...

What the longest woolly rhino horn tells us about the b...

A nearly 20,000-year-old woolly rhino horn reveals the extinct herbivores lived ...