Science

A common drug may help treat a rare genetic disease

Ibuprofen counters problems caused by mutations in the MAN1B1 gene, fruit fly te...

Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by

A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed ...

A twisted protein sheds light on chronic wasting diseas...

The detailed structure of a misfolded protein from a diseased deer could help ex...

Accelerated muons bring next-gen particle colliders clo...

Muon colliders could slam the subatomic particles together in hopes of unlocking...

The virus behind an outbreak in Brazil can spread from ...

Transmission of Oropouche virus to the womb has been confirmed in two stillbirth...

A zombie star’s spiky filaments shed light on a 12th ce...

A 3-D map of the strange remains of a supernova seen in 1181 traces the odd tend...

A phone app could help people have lucid dreams

New experiments show that an app developed by researchers can boost snoozing use...

Rethinking archaeology and place

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses efforts of Indigenous people in British Co...

The ‘midlife crisis’ is too simple a story, scientists say

Some scientists want to shift focus to the teen mental health crisis. But the co...

Readers discuss cloud formation, Stonehenge and Earth’s...

Icy moves Stonehenge’s central stone, known as the Altar Stone, may have had Sco...

Backyard explorers discovered 15 new examples of glowin...

New finds in the Finding Fluorescence site include a Japanese beetle with a glow...

A single enzyme can alter the vibrant colors in parrot ...

Tweaking the chemical composition of a parrot-specific pigment can shift feather...

Limiting sugar in infancy reduces the risk of diabetes ...

Children who experienced sugar rationing during World War II were less likely to...

This marine biologist discovered a unique blue whale po...

In addition to studying the world’s only nonmigratory blue whales, marine biolog...

Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread i...

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from ...

The oldest known fossil tadpole was a big baby

Fossils of the ancient frog Notobatrachus degiustoi push the known tadpole timel...