Science

The best way to cook an egg, according to science

It’s hard to cook both the white and the yolk of the egg to the right temperatur...

Extinct moa ate purple trufflelike fungi, fossil bird d...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kin...

Can geoengineering plans save glaciers and slow sea lev...

As climate change melts West Antarctica’s glaciers, scientists are proposing bol...

Earth’s first waterfowl may have lived in Antarctica 69...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfow...

Will the Endangered Species Act survive Trump?

President Trump has already begun to introduce changes that weaken the Endangere...

Are AI chatbot ‘personalities’ in the eye of the beholder?

Defining AI chatbot personality could be based on how a bot “feels” about itself...

Quantum mechanics was born 100 years ago. Physicists ar...

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The Int...

The moon’s two grand canyons formed in less than 10 min...

Two gargantuan canyons on the moon were carved by a hailstorm of rocks — and tha...

Toxic dangers lurk in LA, even in homes that didn’t burn

Urban wildfires like LA’s make harmful chemicals from burning plastics and elect...

A new book explores the evolutionary romance between pl...

Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to en...

Math puzzle: imagine there’s no zero

Solve the math puzzle from our February 2025 issue, based on the number system o...

Plastic shards permeate human brains

A study of microplastics and nanoplastics in brains shows an astonishing increas...

Welcome to The Deep End, a new podcast about brain impl...

This new six-part podcast follows the lives of people with severe depression who...

An African strontium map sheds light on the origins of ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium a...

A new kind of non-opioid painkiller gets FDA approval

The new drug, called Journavx, is a non-opioid for treating short-term moderate ...

Hotter cities? Here come the rats

Well, rats. A study of 16 cities shows that higher ambient temperatures and loss...