Science

A new book explores the link between film giant Kodak a...

In Tales of Militant Chemistry, Alice Lovejoy traces how film giants Kodak and A...

The oldest known mummies have been found — in Southeast...

Southeast Asian groups mummified bodies over smoky fires before burying them as ...

Salt can turn frozen water into a weak power source

Experiments reveal that when slabs of salty ice are strained, electricity is gen...

How a Harvard maverick forever changed our concept of t...

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove...

Recycled glass could help fend off coastal erosion

Sand made from recycled glass can be mixed with sediment to make a medium for pl...

Scientists made a biological quantum bit out of a fluor...

Researchers could use quantum effects to develop new types of medical imaging in...

Want to avoid mosquito bites? Step away from the beer

A Dutch music festival turned into a mosquito lab, revealing how beer, weed, sle...

Future Martians will need to breathe. It won’t be easy

Asteroid impacts, microbes, mining: These are a few tactics engineers might one ...

Octopus arms are adaptable but some are favored for par...

Octopuses are ambidextrous, a new study finds, but they favor their front arms f...

Seismic waves suggest Mars has a solid heart

NASA’s InSight lander listened to Marsquakes for four years. The tremors reveale...

This laser would shoot beams of neutrinos, not light

The subatomic particles called neutrinos are famously elusive. But an unconventi...

Your red is my red, at least to our brains

Despite philosophical debates, colors like red may spark similar brain activity ...

Drugs like Ozempic might lower cancer risk

GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro might lower people’s risk of...

Chemicals in marijuana may affect women’s fertility

THC in marijuana may help eggs become ready for fertilization. But this may come...

Here’s how fruit flies’ giant sperm squeeze into tight ...

Researchers found that fruit fly sperm push against one another and align in ord...

Young pterosaurs probably died in violent Jurassic storms

Two hatchling pterosaurs with fractured arm bones point to ancient storms as the...