Science

Here’s the James Webb telescope’s first direct image of...

Along with spying its first exoplanet, the James Webb telescope got its first di...

A clever molecular trick extends the lives of these ant...

Ant queens typically live much longer than their workers by blocking a key part ...

‘The Milky Way’ wants you to get to know your home in t...

In a new ‘autobiography,’ the Milky Way tells its own story with the help of ast...

Who has the highest risk of long COVID? It’s complicated

Long COVID can look different for different people, making it difficult to pinpo...

Ancient ‘demon ducks’ may have been undone by their slo...

Mihirung birds grew to more than half a ton and took their time getting there. T...

Physicists dispute a claim of detecting a black hole’s ...

A thin ring of light around a black hole, which would probe gravity in a new way...

The curious case of the 471-day coronavirus infection

One patient couldn’t get rid of their coronavirus infection. The case gave scien...

This bizarre ancient critter has been kicked out of a g...

A wee sea creature without an anus was thought to be the oldest deuterostome. Ne...

The Tonga eruption may have spawned a tsunami as tall a...

A massive undersea volcanic eruption in the South Pacific in January created a t...

COVID-19 gave new urgency to the science of restoring s...

With newfound pressure from the pandemic, olfactory training and a host of other...

The James Webb telescope spotted CO2 in an exoplanet’s ...

The first definitive detection of the gas on a world in another solar system pav...

How death’s-head hawkmoths manage to fly straight for m...

By tailing death’s-head hawkmoths in an airplane, scientists have found that the...

NASA’s Artemis I mission sets the stage for our return ...

The launch, scheduled for August 29, will test many aspects of the rocket, capsu...

‘Chameleon’ forces remain elusive in a new dark energy ...

A hypothetical fifth force associated with “chameleon” dark energy and that morp...

A new seasoning smells like meat thanks to sugar — and ...

A spoonful of sugars could help cooked mealworms go down more easily, a potentia...

50 years ago, genes eluded electron microscopes

In the 1970s, scientists dreamed of seeing genes under the microscope. Fifty yea...

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