Science

A skull found in Egypt shows this top predator stalked ...

Archaeologists uncovered a fossilized skull of an ancient sharp-toothed predator...

How fish biologists discovered birds of paradise have f...

A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds...

How a puffin patrol in Iceland is saving the iconic sea...

Light pollution disorients young puffins. The Puffling Patrol helps them find th...

Hear patients with brain implants describe what it feel...

In the third episode of The Deep End, Jon shares how DBS surgery went and how he...

Fired federal workers share the crucial jobs no longer ...

Thousands of probationary federal employees received termination notices. Many w...

Why some chaos-seekers just want to watch the world burn

A political scientist explains how a confluence of personality traits and percei...

The butts of these blowfly larvae mimic termite faces

The young of a mysterious blowfly species look — and smell — like the termites t...

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Biological sex is not as simple as male or female

A recent Trump executive order defines sex based on gamete size. But the order o...

Even desert cities could pull drinking water from the air 

Water harvesting from foggy air provided up to 5 liters of water a day in a year...

Fog collection could alleviate water stress in desert c...

Water harvesting from foggy air provided up to 5 liters of water a day in a year...

Squishy materials reveal new physics of static electric...

The charge transferred when identical objects touch depends on their history, sc...

Earth had new, temporary radiation rings last year

Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 20...

NIH research grant cuts could deal a biting blow to cru...

The funding agency aims to cap “indirect costs” in biomedical research grants. B...

A weird ice that may form on alien planets has finally ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice,...

Giant camel-like creatures lived thousands of years lon...

Fossilized teeth from two ancient megafauna suggest they roamed Brazil 3,500 yea...