Science

In Maya society, cacao use was for everyone, not just r...

Previously considered a preserve of Maya elites, cacao was consumed across all s...

Mangrove forests expand and contract with a lunar cycle

The carbon-sequestering trees grow in a roughly 18-year cycle according to tides...

Here’s how olivine may trigger deep earthquakes

Olivine’s transformation into another mineral can destabilize rocks and set off ...

Here is the first direct look at Neptune’s rings in mor...

In 1989, the Voyager 2 spacecraft took the first pics of Neptune’s rings. Now, N...

Has AlphaFold actually solved biology’s protein-folding...

An AI called AlphaFold predicted structures for nearly every protein known to sc...

How ghostly neutrinos could explain the universe’s matt...

If neutrinos behave differently from their antimatter counterparts, it could hel...

This face mask can sense the presence of an airborne virus

Within minutes of exposure, a sensor in a mask prototype can detect proteins fro...

After eons of isolation, these desert fish flub social ...

Pahrump poolfish flunked a fear test, but maybe they’re scared of other things.

A protogalaxy in the Milky Way may be our galaxy’s orig...

Millions of ancient stars spanning about 18,000 light-years at the Milky Way’s h...

Drumming woodpeckers use similar brain regions as songb...

Woodpeckers drum on trees and other objects using brain regions similar to those...

Fossil finds put gibbons in Asia as early as 8 million ...

Specimens from China raise questions about the evolutionary ID of an even older ...

Video shows the first fox known to fish for food

Big fish in shallow water are easy pickings for one fox — the first of its kind ...

This environmentally friendly quantum sensor runs on su...

Quantum sensors often rely on power-hungry lasers to make measurements. A new qu...

Here’s what triggers giant honeybees to do the wave

A new study is revealing details about what sets off a defensive behavior in ope...

Looking for a job? Lean more on weak ties than strong r...

A 50-year-old social science theory gets put to the test in a new study using da...

5 people with lupus are in remission after CAR-T cell t...

More than six months after CAR-T cell treatment, five patients are in remission ...

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