Science

Einstein’s gravity endures despite a dark energy puzzle 

The DESI project previously reported that dark energy — long thought to be const...

Vaccines, fluoride, raw milk: How RFK Jr.’s views may s...

If confirmed as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, Kennedy cou...

Nature’s first fiber optics could light the way to inte...

Mineral crystals in heart cockles’ shells protect symbiotic algae from ultraviol...

Youth tobacco use has gone down, but the work isn’t over

In 2024, tobacco use among middle and high school students reached a record low,...

Keeping weight off may be stymied by fat cells’ ‘memory...

Some genetic changes in fat cells don’t go away after weight loss, a study in mi...

Some people don’t have a mind’s eye. Scientists want to...

The senses of sight and sound are usually mingled in the brain, but not for peop...

Readers ask about self-correcting quantum computers, oo...

Readers wondered if mayo qualifies as a non-Newtonian fluid, and X user @Lightni...

50 years on, Lucy still sparks our curiosity

Editor in chief Nancy Shute recounts the 50-year anniversary of the hominid's di...

A twisted protein sheds light on chronic wasting diseas...

The detailed structure of a misfolded protein from a diseased deer could help ex...

Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by

A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed ...

A common drug may help treat a rare genetic disease

Ibuprofen counters problems caused by mutations in the MAN1B1 gene, fruit fly te...

The virus behind an outbreak in Brazil can spread from ...

Transmission of Oropouche virus to the womb has been confirmed in two stillbirth...

Accelerated muons bring next-gen particle colliders clo...

Muon colliders could slam the subatomic particles together in hopes of unlocking...

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...

A phone app could help people have lucid dreams

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

A zombie star’s spiky filaments shed light on a 12th ce...

A 3-D map of the strange remains of a supernova seen in 1181 traces the odd tend...