Science

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...

7-million-year-old limb fossils may be from the earlies...

An earlier report on one of the bones of a 7-million-year-old creature that may ...

Sleep deprivation may make people less generous

Helping each other is inherently human. Yet new research shows that sleep depriv...

The discovery of the Kuiper Belt revamped our view of t...

Thirty years ago, astronomers found the Kuiper Belt, a region of space home to P...

Not one, but two asteroids might have slain the dinosaurs

A craterlike structure found off West Africa’s coast might have been formed by a...

News stories have caught spiders in a web of misinforma...

Nearly half of news stories about peoples’ interactions with spiders contain err...

Sea urchin skeletons’ splendid patterns may strengthen ...

“Voronoi” geometric patterns found in sea urchin skeletons yield strong yet ligh...

Extreme climate shifts long ago may have helped drive r...

The end-Permian extinction left reptiles plenty of open ecological niches. But r...

‘The Five-Million-Year Odyssey’ reveals how migration s...

A globe-trotting trek through history shows how past population migrations chang...

The new CDC guidelines may make back-to-school harder

The public health agency’s coronavirus advice could change how schools operate a...

An award-winning photo captures a ‘zombie’ fungus erupt...

The winner of the 2022 BMC Ecology and Evolution photo competition captures a ma...

Common, cheap ingredients can break down some ‘forever ...

Forever chemicals, or PFAS, are harmful compounds that are very difficult to deg...

Why mosquitoes are especially good at smelling you

How Aedes aegypti mosquitoes smell things is different from how most animals do,...

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