Science

No, shaken baby syndrome has not been discredited

Defense lawyers have called shaken baby syndrome, or abusive head trauma, junk s...

Protein signatures may one day tell brain diseases apar...

Blood tests could pave the way for distinguishing between Alzheimer’s, Parkinson...

In a first, an image shows a dying star exploded twice ...

The image offers the first evidence for a previously unconfirmed origin story of...

Organ age, not just your birthday, may determine your h...

Blood proteins that reveal some organs age faster than others — and that may pre...

How fast did dinosaurs really go? Birds walking in mud ...

Tracks of dinosaur footprints can hint at how fast the extinct animals moved. He...

Does the AI industry operate like a modern colonial emp...

In Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao investigates OpenAI and the social and env...

The biggest black hole smashup ever detected challenges...

Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times th...

Gut microbes may flush ‘forever chemicals’ from the body

Experiments in mice show that some gut bacteria can absorb toxic PFAS chemicals,...

A newly discovered interstellar object might predate th...

3I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would mak...

New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We’re still le...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. ...

Greenland sled dog DNA is a window into the Arctic’s ar...

A genomic analysis of Greenland’s Qimmeq dogs suggest they and their human partn...

Trees can’t get up and walk away, but forests can

In fantasy worlds, trees like the Lord of the Rings’ Ents are agile and mobile. ...

As bird flu evolves, keeping it out of farm flocks is g...

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions ...

An ancient Earth impact could help in the search for Ma...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s...

Deep-sea mining could start soon — before we understand...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to c...

Why these zombie caterpillars can’t stop eating 

Sneaky chemistry by a real-life “Last of Us” Cordyceps fungus mind controls its...