Science

Spiraling footballs wobble at one of two specific frequ...

Researchers simulated the path of a flying football to study how pigskins wobble...

Asteroid impacts might have created some of Mars’ sand

Roughly a quarter of the Red Planet’s sand is spherical bits of glass forged in ...

Over time, Betelgeuse changed color. Now it’s also lost...

A recent upset to the star’s variability and ancient records that describe the r...

Physicists spotted rare W boson trios at the Large Hadr...

By measuring how often triplets of particles called W bosons appear, scientists ...

COVID-19 infections can rebound for some people. It’s u...

Rebounding COVID-19 isn’t limited to Paxlovid patients. An infection can come ba...

50 years ago, scientists hoped freezing donor organs wo...

In the 1970s, biologists hoped to freeze organs so more could last long enough t...

These researchers are unlocking Renaissance beauty secrets

An art historian has teamed up with chemists to uncover the science behind cosme...

Why humans have more voice control than any other primates

Unlike all other studied primates, humans lack vocal membranes. That lets humans...

The Arctic is warming even faster than scientists realized

The Arctic isn’t just heating up two to three times as quickly as the rest of th...

Multiple sclerosis has a common viral culprit, opening ...

Learning how the common Epstein-Barr virus may trigger multiple sclerosis could ...

Zoo gorillas use a weird new call that sounds like a sn...

A novel vocalization made by the captive great apes may help them draw human att...

Sea sponges launch slow-motion snot rockets to clean th...

Sea sponges rely on a sneezing mechanism to clear their pores, using mucus to fl...

How balloons could one day detect quakes on Venus

A new study opens the door for future balloon-based missions to study the geolog...

Relocated beavers helped mitigate some effects of clima...

Along a river in Washington state, the repositioned beavers built dams that lowe...

Scientists mapped dark matter around galaxies in the ea...

A technique used to reveal dark matter could also shed light on a disagreement a...

Mini-Neptunes may become super-Earths as the exoplanets...

Starlight is eroding the atmospheres of a handful of gassy exoplanets that are a...

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