Science

News stories have caught spiders in a web of misinforma...

Nearly half of news stories about peoples’ interactions with spiders contain err...

Sea urchin skeletons’ splendid patterns may strengthen ...

“Voronoi” geometric patterns found in sea urchin skeletons yield strong yet ligh...

Extreme climate shifts long ago may have helped drive r...

The end-Permian extinction left reptiles plenty of open ecological niches. But r...

‘The Five-Million-Year Odyssey’ reveals how migration s...

A globe-trotting trek through history shows how past population migrations chang...

The new CDC guidelines may make back-to-school harder

The public health agency’s coronavirus advice could change how schools operate a...

An award-winning photo captures a ‘zombie’ fungus erupt...

The winner of the 2022 BMC Ecology and Evolution photo competition captures a ma...

Common, cheap ingredients can break down some ‘forever ...

Forever chemicals, or PFAS, are harmful compounds that are very difficult to deg...

Why mosquitoes are especially good at smelling you

How Aedes aegypti mosquitoes smell things is different from how most animals do,...

Oort cloud comets may spin themselves to death

How icy objects from the solar system’s fringe break up as they near the sun is ...

The first known monkeypox infection in a pet dog hints ...

A person passed monkeypox to a dog. Other animals might be next, allowing the vi...

Protons contain intrinsic charm quarks, a new study sug...

The massive quarks — counterintuitively heavier than the proton itself — might c...

Two new books show how sexism still pervades astronomy

In A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman and The Sky Is for Everyone, fem...

Spiraling footballs wobble at one of two specific frequ...

Researchers simulated the path of a flying football to study how pigskins wobble...

Asteroid impacts might have created some of Mars’ sand

Roughly a quarter of the Red Planet’s sand is spherical bits of glass forged in ...

Over time, Betelgeuse changed color. Now it’s also lost...

A recent upset to the star’s variability and ancient records that describe the r...

Physicists spotted rare W boson trios at the Large Hadr...

By measuring how often triplets of particles called W bosons appear, scientists ...

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