Science

Nature’s first fiber optics could light the way to inte...

Mineral crystals in heart cockles’ shells protect symbiotic algae from ultraviol...

Vaccines, fluoride, raw milk: How RFK Jr.’s views may s...

If confirmed as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, Kennedy cou...

Einstein’s gravity endures despite a dark energy puzzle 

The DESI project previously reported that dark energy — long thought to be const...

Climate change has amped up hurricane wind speeds by 30...

Every single Atlantic hurricane in 2024 had wind speeds supercharged by warming ...

Here’s why turning to AI to train future AIs may be a b...

If future AI models are trained on AI-generated content, they could end up produ...

Keeping weight off may be stymied by fat cells’ ‘memory...

Some genetic changes in fat cells don’t go away after weight loss, a study in mi...

Youth tobacco use has gone down, but the work isn’t over

In 2024, tobacco use among middle and high school students reached a record low,...

Some people don’t have a mind’s eye. Scientists want to...

The senses of sight and sound are usually mingled in the brain, but not for peop...

Readers ask about self-correcting quantum computers, oo...

Readers wondered if mayo qualifies as a non-Newtonian fluid, and X user @Lightni...

50 years on, Lucy still sparks our curiosity

Editor in chief Nancy Shute recounts the 50-year anniversary of the hominid's di...

Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by

A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed ...

A twisted protein sheds light on chronic wasting diseas...

The detailed structure of a misfolded protein from a diseased deer could help ex...

A common drug may help treat a rare genetic disease

Ibuprofen counters problems caused by mutations in the MAN1B1 gene, fruit fly te...

The virus behind an outbreak in Brazil can spread from ...

Transmission of Oropouche virus to the womb has been confirmed in two stillbirth...

Accelerated muons bring next-gen particle colliders clo...

Muon colliders could slam the subatomic particles together in hopes of unlocking...

Readers discuss cloud formation, Stonehenge and Earth’s...

Icy moves Stonehenge’s central stone, known as the Altar Stone, may have had Sco...