Science

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 ...

Discoveries that enabled quantum computers win the Nobe...

In the 1980s, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis demonstrated quantum...

Antarctic krill eject more food when it’s contaminated ...

Antarctic krill don’t just sequester carbon in their poop; they also make carbon...

Finding immune cells that stop a body from attacking it...

Shimon Sakaguchi discovered T-reg immune cells. Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell i...

New oral GLP-1 drugs could offer more options for weigh...

GLP-1 injections use needles and require refrigeration. Pills that work in a sim...

To make a tasty yogurt, just add ants (and their microbes)

Spiking milk with live ants makes tangy traditional yogurt. Researchers have ide...

What Jane Goodall taught me about bones, loss and not w...

A personal reflection recalls Jane Goodall’s quiet pragmatism, her deep bond wit...

Nobel Prizes honor great discoveries — but leave much o...

The Nobel Prize might be the most famous science prize but it celebrates just a ...

AI-designed proteins test biosecurity safeguards

AI edits to the blueprints for known toxins can evade detection. Researchers are...

How dandelions rig the odds for catching upward gusts

New images reveal microstructures that, depending on how the wind blows, help gi...

These parachutes unfurl thanks to the Japanese art of k...

Parachutes inspired by Japanese paper cutting unfurl automatically and fall more...

A grapevine bacteria may help douse wildfire-tainted wi...

Grape plant bacteria might help mitigate smoke taint in wine by breaking down ch...

AI generated its first working genome: a tiny bacteria ...

Bacteriophages designed with AI kill E. coli faster than a well-studied strain, ...

12,000-year-old rock art hints at the Arabian Desert’s ...

Newly found engravings of animals on rock outcrops in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud deser...

Can AI spot harmful health side effects on social media?

A new AI tool discovers harmful side effects of cannabis products from Reddit po...

Scientists made human egg cells from skin cells

More work needs to be done to create viable human embryos, but the method might ...