In winter, light in the northern latitudes is dim and very blue compared to summer light. Reindeer eyes have evolved to…
Gamma-ray bursts occur when a massive star explodes or when two neutron stars merge. A newly discovered burst has puzzled…
The intersection of content management, misinformation, aggregated data about human behavior and crowdsourcing shows how…
Scientific and public uproar resulted when the Chinese scientist announced the births of the first human babies with heritable…
People with an active case of shingles have up to an 80% higher risk of stroke than those without. The increased risk is…
Millions of people around the world suffered through deadly flooding and long-lasting heat waves in 2022. A climate scientist…
Astrology and astronomy were once practiced side by side by scientists like Galileo and Kepler. And they’re more similar…
When mud, fluids and gases erupt at the Earth’s surface, they hint at what’s happening underground, allowing scientists…
Keeping human foods away from pets is one way to avoid emergency veterinary hospital runs during Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa…
Amphibians have been devastated by a chytrid fungus pandemic. Researchers immunized California red-legged frogs in Yosemite…
Immunotherapy has the potential to eliminate tumors, but works best for select patients. Engineering T cells to bypass cancer’s…
It has been one year since the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope and six months since the first pictures were released.…
The US government regulates many industries, but social media companies don’t neatly fit existing regulatory templates.…
An effective nasal vaccine could stop the virus that causes COVID-19 right at its point of entry. But devising one that…
The promise of abundant, clean energy powered by nuclear fusion is one big step closer thanks to a new experiment. The results…
There is a best time to take your medications, but your doctor may not know when that is. Researchers are still figuring…
The app best known for kids sharing video clips of themselves singing and dancing has become a powerful tool for activists…
From picking the tree to getting it home to setting it up, the choices you make can help it stay fresher – and safer –…
China has completed construction of the Tiangong space station, and science projects are now underway. The station is an…
Lovelace was a prodigious math talent who learned from the giants of her time, but her linguistic and creative abilities…