Science

This ‘hidden figure’ of entomology fought for civil rights

Margaret S. Collins, the first Black American female entomologist to earn a Ph.D...

Like brain cells, kidney cells can ‘remember’

Scientists found memory’s molecular machinery at work in cells outside the nervo...

China’s famously rich dinosaur fossil beds get a new or...

Cave-ins and floods may have buried the Cretaceous creatures of the fossil Jehol...

From electric cars to wildfires, how Trump may affect c...

Trump’s first term, campaign pledges and nominees point to how efforts to addres...

Dengue is classified as an urban disease. Mosquitoes do...

Infectious diseases are often labeled “urban” or “rural.” Applying political lab...

Refurbished heart pacemakers work like new

“Old” pacemakers may still work for years, so doctors are refurbishing used devi...

Ancient Central Americans built a massive fish-trapping...

Earthen channels directed fish into ponds that formed seasonally, providing a di...

Satellite space junk might wreak havoc on the stratosphere

Hundreds of defunct satellites plunge toward Earth every year. Scientists are st...

Scientists identify a long-sought by-product of some dr...

Chlorine-based water treatments create many by-products, but one has been elusiv...

Here’s why turning to AI to train future AIs may be a b...

If future AI models are trained on AI-generated content, they could end up produ...

Climate change has amped up hurricane wind speeds by 30...

Every single Atlantic hurricane in 2024 had wind speeds supercharged by warming ...

Einstein’s gravity endures despite a dark energy puzzle 

The DESI project previously reported that dark energy — long thought to be const...

Vaccines, fluoride, raw milk: How RFK Jr.’s views may s...

If confirmed as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, Kennedy cou...

Nature’s first fiber optics could light the way to inte...

Mineral crystals in heart cockles’ shells protect symbiotic algae from ultraviol...

Youth tobacco use has gone down, but the work isn’t over

In 2024, tobacco use among middle and high school students reached a record low,...

Keeping weight off may be stymied by fat cells’ ‘memory...

Some genetic changes in fat cells don’t go away after weight loss, a study in mi...