Science

Color blindness hides a key warning sign of bladder cancer

A large U.S. health records study suggests that difficulty seeing blood in urine...

Plants packed close enough to touch are more resilient ...

Signals transmitted via leaves can warn neighboring plants of stressful events, ...

This dino’s fossil claw suggests it snatched eggs, not ...

A 67-million-year-old claw fossil reveals a new dinosaur species that may have u...

Computer science can help abuse and trafficking survivo...

Nicola Dell, a computer scientist studying the role of technology in intimate pa...

This ancient pottery holds the earliest evidence of hum...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowle...

Earth’s last 3 years were its hottest on record

An analysis of global climate data shows sustained warming even as El Niño faded.

Botox could be used to fight snakebite

A study on rabbits dosed with viper venom suggests that botulinum toxin may alle...

In a new kind of plant trickery, this yam fools birds w...

Black-bulb yam’s mimicry tricks birds into spreading its berrylike clones. The p...

Queen bumblebees are poor foragers thanks to sparse ton...

The density of fine hairs on bumblebees’ tongues determines how much nectar they...

Among chimpanzees, thrill-seeking peaks in toddlerhood

In humans, teens do the most dangerous things. In chimpanzees, that honor goes t...

An all-female wasp is rapidly spreading across North Am...

The elm zigzag sawfly has spread to 15 states in five years. Now it's attacking ...

A newly spotted asteroid spins faster than any of its s...

Among the first finds from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the discovery hints at...

A double cosmic explosion could be the first known ‘sup...

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake...

Hidden tree bark microbes munch on important climate gases

Trees are known for absorbing CO2. But microbes in their bark also absorb other ...

What science says about the Trump administration’s new ...

The federal move to no longer recommend certain vaccines for all U.S. children i...

Easy on the eyes is also easy on the brain

A new study finds that the brain spends less energy processing scenes that peopl...