Science

In one lake deep under Antarctica’s ice, microbes feast...

Microorganisms living in a lake beneath the ice sheet in West Antarctica feed on...

Why some hammerhead sharks seem to ‘hold their breath’ ...

Scalloped hammerhead sharks in Hawaii seem to limit the use of their gills durin...

‘Thunder beast’ fossils show how some mammals might hav...

Rhinolike mammals called brontotheres repeatedly evolved into bigger and smaller...

A reappearing supernova offers a new measure of the uni...

Supernova Refsdal blew up once but burst into view at least five times. The timi...

Science explains why shouting into the wind seems futile

Sending a sound upwind, against the flow of air, makes the sound louder due to a...

A flower-shaped soft robot could make brain monitoring ...

Once inserted in the skull, the device unfurls flexible sensors that can monitor...

The new human pangenome could help unveil the biology o...

The deciphered DNA includes never-before-explored parts of the genome and better...

Ancient giant eruptions may have seeded nitrogen needed...

A new study bolsters the idea that on the young Earth volcanic lightning may hav...

San Francisco airport will monitor plane waste for COVI...

The airport, working with the CDC and a biotech company, will be the first in th...

Why you shouldn’t use magnets when looking for meteorites

A popular tool for identifying meteorites can overwrite records of magnetic fiel...

How Pythagoras turned math into a tool for understandin...

Reality was made of numbers, Pythagoras said, and he employed numbers to explain...

Pregnancy may hamper bats’ ability to ‘see’ in the dark

Tiny Kuhl’s pipistrelle bats make fewer calls when pregnant, which may make it m...

The James Webb telescope revealed surprise asteroids in...

New images of Fomalhaut confirm that an alleged planet is probably just dust whi...

50 years ago, enzyme injections showed promise for trea...

Enzyme replacement can offer relief to people with rare diseases. Now, scientist...

Salty water may have flowed near Mars’ equator as recen...

Crusts and cracks on Martian sand dunes are a sign salty water flowed near the e...

WHO declares an end to the global COVID-19 public healt...

Global COVID-19 deaths are down and immunity is up. But with the virus here to s...

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