Science

Your medications might make it harder for you to beat t...

Chronic illnesses and the medications that treat them may make it harder to hand...

Your face’s hot spots may reveal how well you are aging

If facial heat maps prove effective at picking up signs of chronic diseases such...

Extraordinary heat waves have readers asking how A/C af...

Air conditioning is responsible for nearly 4 percent of total global greenhouse ...

A risk-tolerant immune system may enable house sparrows...

Birds that are willing to eat seed spiked with chicken poop have higher expressi...

Of frogs and the people who love them

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses frogs and chytrid fungus, trilobite fossil...

Readers ponder sign language in ancient humans, looped ...

A sign of our past? Deaf experimental psychologist Rain Bosworth has found that ...

Squall line tornadoes are sneaky, dangerous and difficu...

New research is revealing the secrets of these destructive twisters, which dodge...

Why Japan issued its first-ever mega-earthquake alert

After a magnitude 7.1 temblor jolted southern Japan, the chances of a subsequent...

50 years ago, scientists blamed migraines on cheese and...

Exactly how migraines develop is still coming into focus, but scientists now kno...

Zigzag walls could help buildings beat the heat

A corrugated exterior wall reflects heat to space and absorbs less heat from the...

A frog’s story of surviving a fungal pandemic offers ho...

Evolving immunity to the Bd fungus and a reintroduction project saved a Californ...

Some meteors leave trails lasting up to an hour. Now we...

A new survey of meteors that leave persistent trails found that speed and bright...

Earthquakes added to Pompeii’s death toll

Broken bodies found at the archaeological site indicate that earthquakes played ...

Scientists are getting serious about UFOs. Here’s why

UFOs have been rebranded as UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena). Probably no...

Record-breaking Coral Sea temperatures threaten the Gre...

Near-annual extreme heat in the Coral Sea, including in 2024, is causing back-to...

Hundreds of snake species get a new origin story

Elapoid snakes, including cobras, mambas and sea snakes, may have evolved in Asi...

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