In New York City in 2018, a cat reportedly fell from the window of a 32nd-floor apartment onto hard asphalt—and…
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Researchers isolated the newly described nematode (Panagrolaimus kolymaensis) from permafrost in 2018, but its age and species remained unclear. (Image…
The comet 12P/Pons-Brook (12P) photographed on July 26, with the comet’s “horns” clearly visible. The image was captured by the…
Graphical abstract. Credit: Nucleic Acids Research (2023). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad573 A newly described type of chemistry in fungi is both surprisingly…
A large portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape — perhaps covered by trees and roaming woolly mammoths –…
A sixth person is in long-term remission from HIV following a stem cell transplant, scientists reported this week at a…
New work by scientists in the U.S. and China shows how a fertilized egg cell, or zygote, hits ‘reset’ so…
Early in her astronomy Ph.D. program, Aomawa Shields found herself without words. She had an undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts…
A melanistic leopard or “black panther” in Laikipia, Kenya – not the UKChris Brunskill/Getty Images Rumours of big cats, such…
The “Man in the Moon,” the dark area of dried lava that looks like a face smiling from the lunar…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study published in CABI Reviews suggests that the impact of climate change on animals…
Currently, it is impossible to accurately predict when and where an earthquake might strike. But scientists now believe that Global…
In 1852 a South African mathematician asked a seemingly simple question that triggered endless dispute, left a trail of overturned…
Archaeologists in Rome think they may have found the ruins of Nero’s theater, a first-century imperial performance space that was…
CLIMATEWIRE | It was the most intense rainfall in New York City history and caused the deaths of 11 people trapped…
The white dwarf on the right is stealing matter from a neighbouring star. It will eventually explode as a type…
IMAGINE a medical device that could treat an enormous range of our ills, both big and small. A gadget that…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Toy company Mattel has been criticized for “stealth marketing” after giving away free Barbie and Ken…
One of the central challenges for synthetic chemists is to impose control over free radicals. Highly reactive molecules with an…
Svalbard. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Tourists acting as citizen scientists have helped a research team detect microplastics on remote Arctic…
The Eagle quantum processorIBM IBM’s Eagle quantum computer completed a calculation that stumped the conventional supercomputer it was pitted against.…
The edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula.NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO A…
WANDERING around an achingly cool San Francisco coffee shop a few years ago, I was fascinated to see huge, open-topped…
An artist’s interpretation of what a brown dwarf star may look like from an exoplanet that orbits one. (Image credit:…
Dividing us all along generational lines is compelling, but trickyThomas Barwick/getty images GenerationsJean M. Twenge (Simon & Schuster) ZOOMERS are…
Hardship experienced by mothers during their own childhood or during pregnancy is reflected in the composition of their 2-year-old children’s…
Think of a psychopath and any number of Hollywood villains might come to mind, from charming killers like Hannibal Lecter…
In this photo provided by Brian Williams, a whale approaches his father, Kevin Williams, while he was paddleboarding in Prince…
Gary Stix: For Science, Quickly, I’m Gary Stix. Dreams may say something about the psyche, but they also say something…
Technicians remove lifting lugs after placing the Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Solid Rocket Aft Skirts on top of a seismic isolator…