Science

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...

A man let snakes bite him 202 times. His blood helped c...

A new antivenom relies on antibodies from the blood of Tim Friede, who immunized...

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 ...

Playing this Minecraft game hints at how we learn in re...

A tailor-made version of Minecraft let researchers look at the success of learni...

Scientists home in on alternatives to ‘forever chemicals’

Bulky molecules mimic some properties of PFAS without their long-lasting chemica...

Cool water could protect sea stars from a mysterious di...

Sunflower sea stars discovered taking refuge in fjords may offer clues to saving...

Chess players rely on familiar moves even when the game...

In chess as in life, people use memory as a shortcut for decision-making. That s...

Ozempic and Wegovy ingredient may reverse signs of live...

The diabetes and weight loss drug semaglutide reversed liver scarring and inflam...

The axolotl is endangered in the wild. A discovery offe...

Introducing captive-bred axolotls to restored and artificial wetlands may be a p...

A Pueblo tribe recruited scientists to reclaim its anci...

DNA supports modern Picuris Pueblo accounts of ancestry going back more than 1,0...

These crocodile-like beasts reached the Caribbean, outl...

Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million y...

A new 3-D display lets you reach in and touch virtual o...

These hands-on displays might be used to create more immersive video games, educ...

Here’s how we might generate electricity from rain

Water drops produce electricity when dripped through a small tube. That power mi...

Two cities stopped adding fluoride to water. Science re...

As calls to end fluoride in water get louder, changes to the dental health of ch...