Science

An enduring Möbius strip mystery has finally been solved

Playing with paper and scissors helped one mathematician figure out just how sho...

Non-Western art and design can reveal alternate ways of...

Focusing on the relationship between math and culture can boost student learning...

Vela’s exploded star is the highest-energy pulsar ever ...

A spinning dead star about 1,000 light-years away, in the constellation Vela, ra...

Watch: Recent microbial discoveries are changing our vi...

Videos capture the strange movements and predatory styles of protists — among th...

Hippos might be ferocious fighters, but their big teeth...

Among plant eaters, hippos are the worst chewers. Their huge tusks and front tee...

‘Dormant’ HIV has ongoing skirmishes with the body’s im...

In people on HIV drugs, defective viral bits may still exhaust T cells, possibly...

Human footprints in New Mexico really may be surprising...

Two dating methods find that human tracks in White Sands National Park in New Me...

A global report finds amphibians are still in peril. Bu...

A survey of about 8,000 amphibian species provides the latest update on extincti...

The development of quantum dots wins the 2023 Nobel pri...

Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov split the prize for their work in c...

In noisy environs, pied tamarins are using smell more o...

Groups of the primate, native to Brazil, complement vocalizations with scent-mar...

Technique to see the ultrafast world of electrons wins ...

Physicists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier won for work creat...

50 years ago, scientists dreamed of lasers that could k...

In the 1970s, lasers that could initiate nuclear fusion were a distant dream. No...

Early mRNA research that led to COVID-19 vaccines wins ...

Biochemists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman devised mRNA modifications to make ...

The first citrus fruits may have come from southern China

An in-depth look at the orange family tree shows the oldest Citrus ancestors arr...

The right bacterial mix could help frogs take the heat

Wood frog tadpoles that receive a transplant of green frog bacteria can swim in ...

Curbing pedestrian stops might not reduce police-civili...

In Chicago, traffic stops soared as pedestrian stops fell. Single policy changes...

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