Science

Polar plunges aren’t just for the daring

Bragging rights and an adrenaline rush aren’t the only reasons to start the year...

A new hunt for an Earth analog begins

The Terra Hunting Experiment will track the wobbles of dozens of stars nightly f...

Dark matter ‘nuggets’ could explain the Milky Way’s mys...

A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could com...

Ancient DNA rewrites the tale of when and how cats left...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 ye...

A quantum trick helps trim bloated AI models

Machine learning techniques that make use of tensor networks could manipulate da...

This giant microbe organizes its DNA in a surprising way

3-D microscopy shows that the giant bacterium Thiovulum imperiosus squeezes its ...

How to levitate objects sans magic

It’s possible to defy gravity using sound waves, magnets or electricity, but tod...

‘Black Religion in the Madhouse’ examines psychiatry an...

In the aftermath of slavery, white psychiatrists diagnosed Black people with “re...

Mosquitos use it to suck blood. Researchers used it to ...

A mosquito proboscis repurposed as a 3-D printing nozzle can print filaments aro...

Early Earth’s belly held onto its water

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep ...

How these strange cells may explain the origin of compl...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plant...

From viruses to elephants, nature thrives on tiled patt...

A compilation of 100 examples of biological tilings shows how repeated natural m...

Neandertals mastered fire-making tools 400,000 years ago

Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire ...

Bats might be the next bird flu wild card

Finding that vampire bats along Peru’s coast carried H5N1 antibodies raises conc...

Trucked-in honeybees may edge out bigger bumblebee fora...

The finding could guide beekeepers to keep hives out of most vulnerable areas of...

Some irritability is normal. Here’s when it’s not

Irritability is a normal response to frustrations, but it can sometimes signal a...