Science

How a bacterial toxin linked to colon cancer messes wit...

A closeup look at colibactin’s structure reveals chemical motifs that guide its ...

A volcanic eruption might have helped bring the Black P...

A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the...

Ancient southern Africans took genetic evolution in a n...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographic...

Human-caused earthquakes are real. Here’s why even stab...

Human activity can cause “healed” faults to release their stored strength, trigg...

Ancient DNA reveals China’s first ‘pet’ cat wasn’t the ...

The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat ...

Twisted stacks of 2-D carbon act like a weird type of s...

“Magic-angle” graphene may provide new clues into poorly understood unconvention...

Self-hypnosis with cooling mental imagery could ease ho...

Postmenopausal women who listened to self-guided hypnosis recordings daily for s...

Personalized ‘prehabilitation’ helps the body brace for...

A small study finds that individualized prehab can dampen harmful immune respons...

A therapeutic HPV vaccine shrank cervical tumors in mice

An HPV vaccine delivered into the nose can treat cervical tumors in mice. The va...

Canada just lost its measles elimination status. Is the...

Canada has had more than a year of continuous measles transmission. The United S...

Gratitude can increase joy, even if it feels a little c...

Like exercise, gratitude takes many forms. Finding the right practice, research ...

Listen to the crackle of Martian ‘mini-lightning’

A microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded the sounds of electrical disc...

A foot fossil suggests a second early human relative li...

Foot bones and other fossils have been attributed to Australopithecus deyiremeda...

Here are 3 big ideas to combat climate change, with or ...

As action from the U.N.’s huge COP30 international meeting falls short, smaller ...

This bright orange life-form could point to new dino di...

Colorful lichen living on dinosaur bones reflect infrared light that can be dete...

Boiling oceans may sculpt the surfaces of small icy moons

Simulations show that subsurface oceans on small moons may hit boiling condition...