Science

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...

A Soviet spacecraft will crash to Earth this month

Kosmos 482 launched for Venus in 1972 but never left Earth orbit. The spacecraft...

Frog ribbits erupt via an extravagant variety of vocal ...

Shape matters as well as size in the great range of male frog show-off equipment...

Losing a key U.S. climate report would hurt future disa...

A scientist who worked on the National Climate Assessment explains how stopping ...

A gas cloud 5,500 times as massive as the sun lurks nearby

At 300 light-years away, the interstellar cloud is the closest of its kind ever ...