Science

Federal cuts put help for mental health and drug addict...

SAMHSA’s work is crucial to suicide and drug overdose prevention and mental heal...

Could Spinosaurus swim? The fierce dinosaur ignites debate

Researchers are still divided about whether Spinosaurus was a swimmer or a wader...

Spotting climate misinformation with AI requires expert...

When classifying climate misinformation, general-purpose large language models l...

‘Pseudoscience’ digs into the allure and dangers of bel...

In their new book, Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen survey flat Earth theory, fake m...

Bats wearing tiny mics reveal how the fliers avoid rush...

As thousands of bats launch nightly hunting, the cacophony of a dense crowd shou...

An overlooked organ may help the ovary function

No longer considered functionless, the “rediscovered” rete ovarii may be crucial...

Snakes are often the villains. A new book gives them a ...

From demon to danger noodle, human ideas about snakes can be as contradictory as...

Scotland’s Isle of Skye was once a dinosaur promenade

New dinosaur fossil tracks on the Isle of Skye reveal that the once-balmy enviro...

Neutrinos’ maximum possible mass shrinks further

The KATRIN experiment in Germany nearly halved the maximum possible mass for neu...

Denisovans inhabited Taiwan, new fossil evidence suggests

An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Deniso...

The story of dire wolves goes beyond de-extinction

Some question whether the pups are really dire wolves, or just genetically tweak...

A shadowy market for weight-loss drugs has emerged online

People are buying semaglutide and tirzepatide, the key ingredients in Ozempic an...

Memory manipulation is the stuff of sci-fi. Someday it ...

Experiments point to how scientists can strengthen or weaken memories, which may...

A lush, green Arabian Desert may have once linked Afric...

Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian ...

New computer chips do math with light

Two companies have announced photonic devices that could solve specific real-wor...

Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly s...

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age...