Science

This tool-wielding assassin turns its prey’s defenses i...

This assassin bug's ability to use a tool — bees’ resin — could shed light on ho...

A chemical in plastics is tied to heart disease deaths

In 2018, over 350,000 excess heart disease deaths were linked to phthalates. Mor...

Skyborne specks of life may influence rainfall patterns

A study of weather on a mountain in Greece reveal that bioparticles in the sky m...

Neandertals may have hunted in horse-trapping teams 200...

A revised age for a German site indicates that our evolutionary cousins organize...

Chimp chatter is a lot more like human language than pr...

Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than wit...

How to fight Lyme may lie in the biology of its disease...

The unusual molecular makeup of Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease,...

Putrid plants can reek of hot rotting flesh with one ev...

Some stinky plants independently evolved an enzyme to take the same molecule beh...

$1.8 billion in NIH grant cuts hit minority health rese...

News of NIH funding cuts have trickled out in recent months. A new study tallies...

Teens who want to quit vaping have another medication o...

The drug varenicline, paired with counseling and text messaging support, helped ...

Do cold-water plunges really speed post-workout muscle ...

A new study is among the first to look at whether cold or hot soaks help women’s...

Before altering the air, microbes oxygenated large swat...

Hundreds of millions of years before oxygen surged in the atmosphere 2.4 billion...

Neandertals invented bone-tipped spears all on their own

An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that m...

British tin might have fueled the rise of some Bronze A...

Chemical evidence of tin from coastal British sites reaching Bronze Age Mediterr...

Lining medical stents with hairlike fuzz could fend off...

Implanted tubes that transport bodily fluids can get gross. A lab prototype sugg...

Physicists explain how cheese rosettes form

Rosettes made by scraping Tête de Moine, or “monk’s head,” cheese result from va...

Ancient poems document the decline of the Yangtze finle...

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s...