Science

Saturn’s rings and tilt might have come from one missin...

The hypothetical moon, dubbed Chrysalis, could have helped tip the planet over b...

Humans may have started tending animals almost 13,000 y...

Remnants from an ancient fire pit in Syria suggest that hunter-gatherers were bu...

Poliovirus is spreading in New York. Here’s what you ne...

With signs of poliovirus spreading in a handful of counties in New York, unvacci...

Falling objects in orbit show Einstein was right — again

For more than two years, a pair of metal cylinders fell at the same rate in spac...

How Kenyans help themselves and the planet by saving ma...

Communities in Kenya took action to restore their coastal mangrove forests, reap...

Not all camouflage is equal. Here are prey animals’ bes...

When prey masquerade as innocuous objects in the environment, they slow detectio...

50 years ago, physicists got a whiff of what glues toge...

In 1972, particle smashups hinted at the gluon, which we now know not only holds...

Passing through the Milky Way’s arms may have helped fo...

Barrages of comets stirred up by the early solar system’s journey around the cen...

Need to keep cockatoos out of your trash? Try bricks, s...

In Sydney, humans may be in an escalating arms race with cockatoos. People are t...

How living in a pandemic distorts our sense of time

The pandemic has distorted people’s perception of time. That could have implicat...

Can’t comb your kid’s hair? This gene may be to blame

Scientists linked variants of one hair shaft gene to most of the uncombable hair...

Why once-gold ceilings in Spain’s Alhambra palace have ...

Moisture infiltrated flawed gilding at the iconic palace, leading to corrosion t...

A carbon footprint life cycle assessment can cut down o...

As companies try to reduce their carbon footprint, many are doing life cycle ass...

How to make recyclable plastics out of CO2 to slow clim...

Companies are turning atmospheric CO2 from smokestacks and landfills into plasti...

An AI can decode speech from brain activity with surpri...

Developed by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, the AI could eventually be used to...

DNA reveals donkeys were domesticated 7,000 years ago i...

When and where donkeys were domesticated has been a long-standing mystery. DNA n...

This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.