Science

New oral GLP-1 drugs could offer more options for weigh...

GLP-1 injections use needles and require refrigeration. Pills that work in a sim...

What Jane Goodall taught me about bones, loss and not w...

A personal reflection recalls Jane Goodall’s quiet pragmatism, her deep bond wit...

To make a tasty yogurt, just add ants (and their microbes)

Spiking milk with live ants makes tangy traditional yogurt. Researchers have ide...

Nobel Prizes honor great discoveries — but leave much o...

The Nobel Prize might be the most famous science prize but it celebrates just a ...

AI-designed proteins test biosecurity safeguards

AI edits to the blueprints for known toxins can evade detection. Researchers are...

How dandelions rig the odds for catching upward gusts

New images reveal microstructures that, depending on how the wind blows, help gi...

A grapevine bacteria may help douse wildfire-tainted wi...

Grape plant bacteria might help mitigate smoke taint in wine by breaking down ch...

These parachutes unfurl thanks to the Japanese art of k...

Parachutes inspired by Japanese paper cutting unfurl automatically and fall more...

AI generated its first working genome: a tiny bacteria ...

Bacteriophages designed with AI kill E. coli faster than a well-studied strain, ...

Can AI spot harmful health side effects on social media?

A new AI tool discovers harmful side effects of cannabis products from Reddit po...

Scientists made human egg cells from skin cells

More work needs to be done to create viable human embryos, but the method might ...

12,000-year-old rock art hints at the Arabian Desert’s ...

Newly found engravings of animals on rock outcrops in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud deser...

Cancer uses mitochondria to reprogram neighboring cells

Cancer cells transfer mitochondria through nanotubes to healthy neighboring cell...

Here’s what might spark ghostly will-o’-the-wisps

Chemists have discovered tiny zaps of electricity moving between “swamp-gas” bub...

What may be one of Earth’s earliest animals has a punk ...

Squiggly markings like a punk rock hairdo led researchers to identify the remain...

More young U.S. adults report trouble with memory and f...

From 2013 to 2023, the prevalence of self-reported difficulties with memory, con...