Science

Bird flu has infected a person after spreading to cows....

H5N1 has wreaked havoc on birds around the globe and occasionally made the jump ...

‘On the Move’ examines how climate change will alter wh...

Journalist Abrahm Lustgarten explores which parts of the United States are most ...

How a 19th century astronomer can help you watch the to...

Astronomer Maria Mitchell’s observations of total solar eclipses from more than ...

A new study has linked microplastics to heart attacks a...

Patients with microplastics in their arteries were 4.5 times more likely to have...

Eavesdropping on fish could help us keep better tabs on...

Scientists are on a quest to log all the sounds of fish communication. The resul...

Here’s why some pigeons do backflips

Meet the scientist homing in on the genes involved in making parlor roller pigeo...

During a total solar eclipse, some colors really pop. H...

As a solar eclipse approaches totality and our eyes adjust to dimming light, our...

How patient-led research could speed up medical innovation

People with long COVID, ME/CFS and other chronic conditions are taking up scienc...

Earth’s oldest known earthquake was probably triggered ...

Billion-year-old rocks in South Africa hold evidence for the onset of plate tect...

Here’s how magnetic fields shape desert ants’ brains

Exposure to a tweaked magnetic field scrambled desert ants’ efforts to learn whe...

Chickadees use memory ‘bar codes’ to find their hidden ...

Unique subsets of neurons in a chickadee’s memory center light up for each disti...

A new image reveals magnetic fields around our galaxy’s...

Astronomers have captured polarized light coming from the Milky Way’s central su...

Climate change is changing how we keep time

Polar ice sheets are melting faster, slowing Earth’s spin. That is changing how ...

An extinct sofa-sized turtle may have lived alongside h...

Peltocephalus maturin was one of the biggest turtles ever, but unlike similarly ...

A teeny device can measure subtle shifts in Earth’s gra...

No bigger than a grain of rice, the heart of the instrument is the latest entran...

AI learned how to sway humans by watching a cooperative...

New research used the game Overcooked to show how offline reinforcement learning...

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