Science

50 years ago, the first probe to visit Mercury launched

In the 1970s, NASA’s Mariner 10 became the first spacecraft to visit Mercury. On...

Head lice hitched a ride on humans to the Americas at l...

The genes of head lice record the story of their human hosts’ global voyages.

The CDC is expanding its disease surveillance of intern...

Passengers at four major U.S. airports will now be tested for over 30 pathogens ...

The mysterious deaths of dozens of Zimbabwe’s elephants...

A bacterium never before identified in elephants or implicated in deadly interna...

Why scientists are expanding the definition of loneliness

Feeling detached from animals, places and routines can cause loneliness, researc...

Here’s how high-speed diving kingfishers may avoid conc...

Understanding the genetic adaptations that protect the birds’ brains when they d...

JWST spotted a new speedy jet stream in Jupiter’s atmos...

Seen in images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the high-altitude feature ma...

How neutron imaging uncovers hidden secrets of fossils ...

The technique can complement X-ray scanning and other tools to uncover details o...

In a Jedi-like feat, rats can move a digital object usi...

In a new study, rats could imagine their way through a 3-D virtual world, hintin...

On some Australian islands, sea level rise may be helpi...

Rising seas usually spell trouble for mangroves. But the first survey of the How...

Faking death lets some female frogs slip the mating gri...

Suddenly looking dead, grunting like a guy or vigorously rotating can help femal...

Rock from the impact that formed the moon may linger in...

When the young Earth and a Mars-sized body collided 4.5 billion years ago, it le...

Brain tissue may be fuel for marathon runners

Myelin, fatty tissue that insulates nerve cells in the brain, may be a renewable...

Newfound fossil species of lamprey were flesh eaters

In China, paleontologists have unearthed fossils of two surprisingly large lampr...

How giant mirrors are made for what will be the world’s...

The Giant Magellan Telescope is slated to probe the cosmos for Earthlike worlds ...

Fake fog, ‘re-skinning’ and ‘sea-weeding’ could help co...

Coral reefs are in global peril, but scientists around the world are working har...

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