Science

Rethinking archaeology and place

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses efforts of Indigenous people in British Co...

Readers discuss cloud formation, Stonehenge and Earth’s...

Icy moves Stonehenge’s central stone, known as the Altar Stone, may have had Sco...

A phone app could help people have lucid dreams

New experiments show that an app developed by researchers can boost snoozing use...

The ‘midlife crisis’ is too simple a story, scientists say

Some scientists want to shift focus to the teen mental health crisis. But the co...

Backyard explorers discovered 15 new examples of glowin...

New finds in the Finding Fluorescence site include a Japanese beetle with a glow...

A single enzyme can alter the vibrant colors in parrot ...

Tweaking the chemical composition of a parrot-specific pigment can shift feather...

Limiting sugar in infancy reduces the risk of diabetes ...

Children who experienced sugar rationing during World War II were less likely to...

The oldest known fossil tadpole was a big baby

Fossils of the ancient frog Notobatrachus degiustoi push the known tadpole timel...

This marine biologist discovered a unique blue whale po...

In addition to studying the world’s only nonmigratory blue whales, marine biolog...

‘Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior’ unearths paleontology’s ...

Paleontologist David Hone’s latest book fleshes out our understanding of dinosau...

Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread i...

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from ...

These hornets may be the alcohol-detox champs of the an...

Vespa orientalis fed an 80-percent-ethanol brew still did hornet tasks and had n...

Fans may not keep older adults cool during heat waves

Older adults are at higher risk of suffering health consequences during heat wav...

A race to save Indigenous trails may change the face of...

As construction of a pipeline nears, an effort to preserve an Indigenous trail i...

Are synthetic food dyes bad for you? Here’s what the sc...

California is banning them in schools. The FDA says they’re fine. But synthetic ...

Male mosquitoes sometimes suck, too

Blood isn’t actually toxic to all male mosquitos. In at least one virus-carrying...