Science

Squirty gels bring the taste of cake and coffee to virt...

By squirting chemicals onto a person’s tongue to taste, a new device aims to rep...

Some of Earth’s meteors are probably coming all the way...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the...

Robots are gaining new capabilities thanks to plants an...

Biohybrid robots made with plant and fungal tissue are more sensitive to their s...

The International Space Station lacks microbial diversi...

Hundreds of surface swabs reveal the station lacks microbial diversity, an imbal...

Mount Vesuvius turned this ancient brain into glass. He...

Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and ...

Married men are doing more cleaning and laundry than in...

Some scholars argue that efforts to equalize the time men and women spend on hou...

More brainlike computers could change AI for the better

New brain-inspired hardware, architectures and algorithms could lead to more eff...

Humans moved into African rainforests at least 150,000 ...

This oldest known evidence of people living in tropical forests supports an idea...

Can probiotics actually curb sugar cravings?

Some companies claim that taking beneficial bacteria can reduce the desire for s...

A new book chronicles the science of life in the air 

Carl Zimmer’s Air-Borne recounts centuries of aerobiology’s greatest moments and...

Ancient Mars wasn’t just wet. It was cold and wet

Mars may once have held enough water to fill oceans and form coastlines. The pla...

A skull found in Egypt shows this top predator stalked ...

Archaeologists uncovered a fossilized skull of an ancient sharp-toothed predator...

How fish biologists discovered birds of paradise have f...

A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds...

How a puffin patrol in Iceland is saving the iconic sea...

Light pollution disorients young puffins. The Puffling Patrol helps them find th...

Hear patients with brain implants describe what it feel...

In the third episode of The Deep End, Jon shares how DBS surgery went and how he...

Fired federal workers share the crucial jobs no longer ...

Thousands of probationary federal employees received termination notices. Many w...