Science

50 years ago, scientists dug into Pangaea’s past lives

In 1972, scientists wondered whether Pangaea was Earth’s only supercontinent. Fi...

This spider literally flips for its food

The Australian ant-slayer spider’s acrobatics let it feast on insects twice its ...

Gas flares are leaking five times as much methane than ...

The flares burn off methane at 91 percent efficiency. Achieving 98 percent effic...

Huijia Lin proved that a master tool of cryptography is...

Cryptographer Huijia Lin showed that the long-sought “indistinguishability obfus...

Emily Jacobs wants to know how sex hormones sculpt the ...

Emily Jacobs studies how the brain changes throughout women’s reproductive years...

Christopher Barnes is on a quest for a universal corona...

Christopher Barnes wants to stop the viruses that cause COVID-19, the common col...

Carlos Argüelles hunts for particles beyond the standar...

Carlos Argüelles overcame hardship and discrimination to pursue a passion for ph...

Marcos Simões-Costa asks how cells in the embryo get th...

Marcos Simões-Costa combines classic studies of developing embryos with the late...

How to get a crying baby to sleep, according to science

Science has come up with a recipe for lulling a crying baby to sleep: Carry them...

This robotic pill clears mucus from the gut to deliver ...

A whirling robotic pill wicks mucus from the gut, allowing intravenous drugs suc...

The pandemic may be stunting young adults’ personality ...

People typically become less neurotic and more agreeable with age. The COVID-19 ...

Ancient fish fossils highlight the strangeness of our v...

New fossils are revealing the earliest jawed vertebrates — a group that encompas...

False teeth could double as hearing aids

Dental implants can conduct sound through jawbone, making them candidates for di...

‘Fen, Bog & Swamp’ reminds readers why peatlands matter

In her latest book, author Annie Proulx chronicles people’s long history with pe...

A Caribbean island gets everyone involved in protecting...

Scientists on Saba are introducing island residents to conservation of Caribbean...

NASA’s DART spacecraft just smashed into an asteroid — ...

If the first-ever attempt to knock a space rock off course works, it could provi...

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