Science

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...

Astronomers detect the brightest ever fast radio burst

The fast radio burst came from 130 million light-years away. That proximity allo...

A sixth mass extinction? Not so fast, some scientists say

A new analysis suggests that recent extinctions have been rare, limited mostly t...

Tiny thumbnails may be key for rodents’ global takeover

Thumbnails might have boosted rodents’ food-handling skills, helping them thrive...

Scientists perform the first pig-to-human lung transplant

The genetically modified lung remained viable for nine days, but the recipient’s...

The mysterious, extinct ‘Fuegian dog’ was actually a se...

Historic European accounts long described the canids as domesticated dogs. A new...