Science

Ancient ‘demon ducks’ may have been undone by their slo...

Mihirung birds grew to more than half a ton and took their time getting there. T...

Physicists dispute a claim of detecting a black hole’s ...

A thin ring of light around a black hole, which would probe gravity in a new way...

The curious case of the 471-day coronavirus infection

One patient couldn’t get rid of their coronavirus infection. The case gave scien...

This bizarre ancient critter has been kicked out of a g...

A wee sea creature without an anus was thought to be the oldest deuterostome. Ne...

The Tonga eruption may have spawned a tsunami as tall a...

A massive undersea volcanic eruption in the South Pacific in January created a t...

COVID-19 gave new urgency to the science of restoring s...

With newfound pressure from the pandemic, olfactory training and a host of other...

The James Webb telescope spotted CO2 in an exoplanet’s ...

The first definitive detection of the gas on a world in another solar system pav...

How death’s-head hawkmoths manage to fly straight for m...

By tailing death’s-head hawkmoths in an airplane, scientists have found that the...

NASA’s Artemis I mission sets the stage for our return ...

The launch, scheduled for August 29, will test many aspects of the rocket, capsu...

‘Chameleon’ forces remain elusive in a new dark energy ...

A hypothetical fifth force associated with “chameleon” dark energy and that morp...

A new seasoning smells like meat thanks to sugar — and ...

A spoonful of sugars could help cooked mealworms go down more easily, a potentia...

50 years ago, genes eluded electron microscopes

In the 1970s, scientists dreamed of seeing genes under the microscope. Fifty yea...

7-million-year-old limb fossils may be from the earlies...

An earlier report on one of the bones of a 7-million-year-old creature that may ...

Sleep deprivation may make people less generous

Helping each other is inherently human. Yet new research shows that sleep depriv...

The discovery of the Kuiper Belt revamped our view of t...

Thirty years ago, astronomers found the Kuiper Belt, a region of space home to P...

Not one, but two asteroids might have slain the dinosaurs

A craterlike structure found off West Africa’s coast might have been formed by a...

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