Science

Fossil finds put gibbons in Asia as early as 8 million ...

Specimens from China raise questions about the evolutionary ID of an even older ...

Video shows the first fox known to fish for food

Big fish in shallow water are easy pickings for one fox — the first of its kind ...

This environmentally friendly quantum sensor runs on su...

Quantum sensors often rely on power-hungry lasers to make measurements. A new qu...

Here’s what triggers giant honeybees to do the wave

A new study is revealing details about what sets off a defensive behavior in ope...

Looking for a job? Lean more on weak ties than strong r...

A 50-year-old social science theory gets put to the test in a new study using da...

5 people with lupus are in remission after CAR-T cell t...

More than six months after CAR-T cell treatment, five patients are in remission ...

Saturn’s rings and tilt might have come from one missin...

The hypothetical moon, dubbed Chrysalis, could have helped tip the planet over b...

Humans may have started tending animals almost 13,000 y...

Remnants from an ancient fire pit in Syria suggest that hunter-gatherers were bu...

Poliovirus is spreading in New York. Here’s what you ne...

With signs of poliovirus spreading in a handful of counties in New York, unvacci...

Falling objects in orbit show Einstein was right — again

For more than two years, a pair of metal cylinders fell at the same rate in spac...

How Kenyans help themselves and the planet by saving ma...

Communities in Kenya took action to restore their coastal mangrove forests, reap...

Not all camouflage is equal. Here are prey animals’ bes...

When prey masquerade as innocuous objects in the environment, they slow detectio...

50 years ago, physicists got a whiff of what glues toge...

In 1972, particle smashups hinted at the gluon, which we now know not only holds...

Passing through the Milky Way’s arms may have helped fo...

Barrages of comets stirred up by the early solar system’s journey around the cen...

Need to keep cockatoos out of your trash? Try bricks, s...

In Sydney, humans may be in an escalating arms race with cockatoos. People are t...

How living in a pandemic distorts our sense of time

The pandemic has distorted people’s perception of time. That could have implicat...

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