Science

Earth’s last 3 years were its hottest on record

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

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

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

Botox could be used to fight snakebite

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

Hidden tree bark microbes munch on important climate gases

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

Earth is bathed in droves of neutrinos spewed by the Mi...

The subatomic particles are incredibly numerous. About 1,000 neutrinos from star...

Easy on the eyes is also easy on the brain

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

New dietary guidelines flip the food pyramid

The new guidelines emphasizes eating protein and full-fat dairy while reducing s...

60,000-year-old poison arrowheads show early humans’ sk...

A new analysis uncovers traces of poison on the South African arrowheads, pushin...

Betelgeuse’s buddy leaves a wake in the giant star’s at...

The wake left by Betelgeuse’s companion could solve a decades-old mystery of its...