Science

Precolonial farmers thrived in one of North America’s c...

Ancestral Menominee people in what’s now Michigan’s Upper Peninsula grew maize a...

Preemptively cutting rhinos’ horns cuts poaching

Comparing various tactics for protecting rhinos suggests that dehorning them dra...

A diet full of tiny plastics triggered health problems ...

Mice exposed to polystyrene nanoplastics developed problems in their guts and li...

Probiotics helped great star corals fend off a deadly d...

A probiotic paste prevented the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease, but t...

Flamingos create precise water vortices in a shrimp-hun...

Nashville Zoo flamingos reveal the oddball birds generate many types of vortices...

Small earthquakes can have a big impact on the movement...

Small and far-off earthquakes can stifle the spread of large motions on some of ...

Trees ‘remember’ times of water abundance and scarcity

Spruce trees that experienced long-term droughts were more resistant to future o...

Aussie cockatoos use their beaks and claws to turn on w...

Parrots living in Sydney have learned how to turn on water fountains for a drink...

Muons’ magnetism matches theory, easing an enduring phy...

A puzzle over muons’ magnetic properties could have broken the standard model. B...

A dwarf galaxy just might upend the Milky Way’s predica...

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not ...

U.S. moms say their mental health is getting worse

A national survey finds that mothers of children ages 0 to 17 years report menta...

Lotions and perfumes affect the air near our skin

The personal care products suppress reactions between skin oils and ozone. It's ...

How luna moths grow extravagant wings

Warm temperatures, not just predator pressure, may favor luna moths’ long bat-fo...

Venus’ tectonics may be actively reshaping its surface

Circular landforms speckling the Venusian surface may be the work of tectonic ac...

Wet fingers always wrinkle in the same way

Pruney fingertips aren't swollen sponges — the wrinkles actually come from blood...

Math puzzle: The conundrum of sharing

Solve the math puzzle from our June 2025 issue, in which friends must find ways ...