Some hairy cells in the nose may trigger sneezing and allergies to dust mites, mold and other substances, new work with mice suggests. | Continue reading
Using heritage acoustics, researchers hope to help restore the sound of Paris's Notre Dame cathedral. | Continue reading
Puffins join the ranks of tool-using birds after researchers document two birds using sticks to groom, a first for seabirds. | Continue reading
Ketamine may weaken wobbly memories of drinking, a trick that might ultimately be useful for treating alcohol addiction. | Continue reading
Born 100 years ago, Julia Robinson played a key role in solving Hilbert’s 10th problem. | Continue reading
Brain scans of six people who had half their brains removed as epileptic children show signs of compensation. | Continue reading
Airborne remote sensing spots the Golden State’s biggest emitters of the potent greenhouse gas from the sky. | Continue reading
Early Catholic Church decrees transformed families and may help explain why Western societies today tend to be individualistic and nonconformist. | Continue reading
A global survey of bird egg color reveals a simple trend: the colder the climate, the darker the egg. | Continue reading
The discovery of strontium created inside a neutron star smashup gives the clearest picture yet of what goes on inside this chaotic environment. | Continue reading
A study reveals new details of how humpback whales hunt using their flippers and a whirl of bubbles to capture fish. | Continue reading
The quantum computer Sycamore reportedly performed a calculation that even the most powerful supercomputers available can’t reproduce. | Continue reading
A newly identified molecule from rotifers paralyzes the larvae of worms that cause schistosomiasis, which affects over 200 million people worldwide. | Continue reading
Three scientists share the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing real-world interventions for tackling poverty. | Continue reading
Astronomers have gotten the earliest glimpse yet of a black hole ripping up a star, a process known as a tidal disruption event. | Continue reading
Too much groundwater use could push over half of pumped watersheds past an ecological tipping point by 2050, compromising aquatic ecosystems worldwide. | Continue reading
A perfect-storm mixture of hurricane, ocean and seafloor topography can create distinct seismic signals called “stormquakes.” | Continue reading
Today’s scientists grapple with many of the same issues that stumped their medieval predecessors. | Continue reading
A reignited debate over whether a new planet is habitable highlights the difficult science of seeking alien life. | Continue reading
In developing human embryos, muscles are made, then lost, in a pattern that mirrors the appearance of the structures during evolution. | Continue reading
Reports suggest a quantum computer has bested standard computers on one type of calculation, but practical applications are still a distant goal. | Continue reading
A new thermoelectric generator uses the temperature difference between Earth and outer space to create electricity after the sun goes down. | Continue reading
Magnetic whorls in a new type of material could be easier to control than their predecessors. | Continue reading
Powerful opioids affect many parts of the body, but the drugs' most deadly effects are on breathing. | Continue reading
A material made of hydrogen, lithium and magnesium and squeezed to high pressures may be a superconductor even at especially high temperatures. | Continue reading
Nerve cells fired coordinated signals in brain organoids, 3-D clusters of cells that mimic some aspects of early brain development. | Continue reading
Silicon’s reign in cutting-edge electronics may soon over. The carbon nanotube could be its successor. | Continue reading
Astronomers first announced the discovery of the worlds in July 2018, and have now named them for goddesses and spirits of Greek and Roman mythology. | Continue reading
Many doctors, and the news media, don’t understand that because of the statistics of screening tests, a test with 90 percent accuracy can give a wrong diagnosis more than 90 percent of the time. | Continue reading
The technique could be useful for creating a future quantum internet. | Continue reading
In a first, astronomers may just have detected gravitational waves from a black hole merging with a neutron star. | Continue reading
The gene editor will be used in lab dishes in cancer and blood disorder trials, and to directly edit a gene in human eyes in a blindness therapy test. | Continue reading
One astronomer has a bold solution to the high cost of building big telescopes. | Continue reading
A compound produced by fungi reacts with skunk spray to form residues that aren’t offensive to the nose and can be more easily washed away. | Continue reading
More Americans trust the motives of scientists than of journalists or politicians. | Continue reading
Scientists investigate superslippery materials and other unusual friction feats. | Continue reading
Rhesus macaque monkeys don’t need rewards to learn and remember how items are ranked in a list, a mental feat that may prove handy in the wild. | Continue reading
A botched attempt at producing radioactive material needed for a neutrino experiment may have released ruthenium-106 to the atmosphere in 2017. | Continue reading
The rise of Candida auris, a deadly fungus spurring outbreaks in the United States and worldwide, may have been aided by climate change. | Continue reading
In the continually regenerating hydra, fluorescent markers help researchers track stem cells on the way to their cellular fate. | Continue reading
Temperatures at the end of the 20th century were hotter almost everywhere on the planet than in the previous two millennia. | Continue reading
Magnets that generate persistent magnetic fields are usually solid. But new little bar magnets have the mechanical properties of liquids. | Continue reading
Gut bacteria may alter ALS symptoms for good or ill. | Continue reading
Two-year-olds demonstrate a verbal quirk that makes their answers less reliable. | Continue reading
Researchers report ultraprecise imaging of a postmortem human brain. | Continue reading
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, here’s a collection of images that show how the moon has been visualized over the ages. | Continue reading
Here’s what planetary scientists are learning from the remains of Apollo outposts, and how archeologists hope to preserve it. | Continue reading
NASA wouldn’t let our reporter touch the Apollo moon rocks. Here’s why that’s a good thing. | Continue reading