Science

Even for elite athletes, the body’s metabolism has its ...

While ultramarathoners are capable of huge energy spurts, overall the athletes t...

Big questions on how food affects our health

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute explores the science behind major questions on food ...

A rice weevil frozen in flight won the 2025 Nikon Small...

From fluorescent ferns to sprawling neurons, this year’s winning photos reveal t...

Our relationship with alcohol is fraught. Ancient custo...

As evidence of alcohol's harms mounts, some people are testing out sobriety. Loo...

An estimated 54,600 young children are malnourished in ...

A study that screened young children in Gaza for malnutrition found that nearly ...

As wildfires worsen, science can help communities avoid...

Blazes sparked in wild lands are devastating communities worldwide. The only way...

These ancient bumblebees were found with their pollen s...

Insects have long pollinated plants, but evidence of ancient pairing is rare. Fo...

Fossil hand bones point to tool use outside the Homo li...

The fossil wrist and thumb bones suggest Paranthropus boisei could grasp tools a...

Discoveries that enabled quantum computers win the Nobe...

In the 1980s, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis demonstrated quantum...

What the longest woolly rhino horn tells us about the b...

A nearly 20,000-year-old woolly rhino horn reveals the extinct herbivores lived ...

Antarctic krill eject more food when it’s contaminated ...

Antarctic krill don’t just sequester carbon in their poop; they also make carbon...

Finding immune cells that stop a body from attacking it...

Shimon Sakaguchi discovered T-reg immune cells. Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell i...

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 ...