Science

How to get the biggest splash at the pool using science

Move over belly flops and cannonballs. Manu jumps, pioneered by New Zealand’s Mā...

A possible new dwarf planet skirts the solar system’s edge

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years....

A cup of chickpeas a day lowers cholesterol

Adding a cup of chickpeas or black beans to people’s daily diets could improve h...

A private Japanese spacecraft failed on its way to the ...

The spacecraft’s owner, ispace, is attempting to land these crafts to commercial...

Preemptively cutting rhinos’ horns cuts poaching

Comparing various tactics for protecting rhinos suggests that dehorning them dra...

Precolonial farmers thrived in one of North America’s c...

Ancestral Menominee people in what’s now Michigan’s Upper Peninsula grew maize a...

A diet full of tiny plastics triggered health problems ...

Mice exposed to polystyrene nanoplastics developed problems in their guts and li...

Probiotics helped great star corals fend off a deadly d...

A probiotic paste prevented the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease, but t...

Small earthquakes can have a big impact on the movement...

Small and far-off earthquakes can stifle the spread of large motions on some of ...

Flamingos create precise water vortices in a shrimp-hun...

Nashville Zoo flamingos reveal the oddball birds generate many types of vortices...

Trees ‘remember’ times of water abundance and scarcity

Spruce trees that experienced long-term droughts were more resistant to future o...

Aussie cockatoos use their beaks and claws to turn on w...

Parrots living in Sydney have learned how to turn on water fountains for a drink...

Muons’ magnetism matches theory, easing an enduring phy...

A puzzle over muons’ magnetic properties could have broken the standard model. B...

U.S. moms say their mental health is getting worse

A national survey finds that mothers of children ages 0 to 17 years report menta...

A dwarf galaxy just might upend the Milky Way’s predica...

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not ...

Lotions and perfumes affect the air near our skin

The personal care products suppress reactions between skin oils and ozone. It's ...