The New Horizons spacecraft is ready for the most distant close flyby of a rocky object in the solar system, a rocky body called MU69 or Ultima Thule. | Continue reading
Fossil plants from Jordan reveal more plant lineages that made it through the Great Dying roughly 252 million years ago. | Continue reading
It’s not yet time to abandon the idea that adult human brains make new nerve cells. | Continue reading
The tally of extreme weather events linked to climate change continues to grow, with new studies outlining links to more than a dozen events in 2017. | Continue reading
Two spacecraft confirm that time passes more slowly closer to Earth’s surface. | Continue reading
An archaeological site not far from the Dead Sea shows signs of sudden, superheated collapse 3,700 years ago. | Continue reading
A newly discovered rock pattern suggests that the game traveled fast from the Near East to Eurasia thousands of years ago. | Continue reading
In May 2019, the system of measurement will be upgraded to rely on fundamental constants. | Continue reading
The discovery of a vast crater in Greenland suggests that a 1-kilometer-wide asteroid hit the Earth between 2.6 million and 11,700 years ago. | Continue reading
With deforestation in Malaysia, monkeys and humans are getting closer — and mosquitoes are infecting humans with malaria from monkeys. | Continue reading
When shifting from one crystalline structure to another, the atoms inside vanadium dioxide bumble around a lot more than expected. | Continue reading
Xofluza, the first flu antiviral to be approved in 20 years, works differently from other flu drugs. | Continue reading
Such devices are more popular among youth than other e-cigarettes or regular cigarettes, a study finds. | Continue reading
Tyrannosaurus rex’s powerful bite and remarkably strong teeth helped the dinosaur crush bones. | Continue reading
The electron remains stubbornly round, meaning we may need to build beyond the Large Hadron Collider to find physics outside of the standard model. | Continue reading
A complex water system magnified flooding’s disruption of the medieval Cambodian city of Angkor. | Continue reading
‘The Sawbones Book,’ based on the popular podcast by Dr. Sydnee and Justin McElroy, ties the strange history of modern medicine to modern pseudoscience. | Continue reading
A brain structure called the hippocampus may slice our continuous existence into discrete chunks that can be stored as memories. | Continue reading
A new calculation says SETI searches have combed the equivalent of a hot tub out of Earth’s oceans looking for extraterrestrial intelligence in space. | Continue reading
Researchers find success at restoring movement to paralyzed legs, giving hope to people with paraplegia. | Continue reading
The Japanese space agency just launched a prototype space elevator to the International Space Station to test motion along a taut cable in space. | Continue reading
Gravitational waves from a recently observed neutron star merger offer no evidence of large, unknown dimensions. | Continue reading
New experiments that rely on very large machines have begun to probe the weak points of particle physics. | Continue reading
Simulations suggest that the theoretical substance known as nuclear pasta is 10 billion times as strong as steel. | Continue reading
Graphene-based electronics that operate at terahertz frequencies would be much speedier successors to today’s silicon-based devices. | Continue reading
In obese mice, immune cells chomp nerve cell connections and harm brainpower. | Continue reading
The FDA just approved the first drug that works via RNA interference. | Continue reading
In calculations involving about 2,000 quantum bits, a D-Wave machine reproduced the behavior of exotic substances. | Continue reading
Two events can happen in different orders at the same time, thanks to quantum physics. | Continue reading
Thousands of years ago, money took different forms as a means of debt payment, archaeologists and anthropologists say. | Continue reading
Pundits claim that we’re all living in political echo chambers. A new study shows that, on Twitter at least, they’re right. | Continue reading
Money has ancient and mysterious pedigrees that go way beyond coins. | Continue reading
Social amoebas that farm bacteria for food use proteins to preserve the crop for their offspring. | Continue reading
Sleep deprivation may speed up development of Alzheimer’s disease. | Continue reading
Scientists can program the stealth cells to die before creating new tumors. | Continue reading
Chemists used a synchrotron to peek beneath 150 years of grime on damaged daguerreotype images, revealing hidden portraits. | Continue reading
Chemists used a synchrotron to peek beneath 150 years of grime on damaged daguerreotype images, revealing hidden portraits. | Continue reading
Venus’ thick atmosphere can push on mountains on the surface, changing its rotation period by a few minutes every day. | Continue reading
Ancestry results vary widely depending on which company you use. | Continue reading
A century after she published a groundbreaking mathematical theory, Emmy Noether gets her due. | Continue reading
For the first time, scientists used experimental data to estimate the pressure inside a proton. | Continue reading
Fecal transplants are the treatment of the future for some conditions. But right now, they are entirely unregulated. Here’s why putting regulations in place is so complex. | Continue reading
Researchers have recently uncovered a diverse array of mechanisms that allow plants to move — often faster than the blink of an eye. | Continue reading
Long-term memories might be encoded in RNA, a controversial study in sea slugs suggests. | Continue reading
TB-sniffing rats prove more accurate in detecting infection, especially in children, than the most commonly used diagnostic tool. | Continue reading
A new understanding of exoplanets and their stars is rewriting the recipes for planet formation. | Continue reading
The disastrous form of Bd chytrid fungus could have popped up just 50 to 120 years ago. | Continue reading