Young Yosemite toads survive winter, then emerge with a deadly fungus
A waterborne pathogen flourishes while toads shelter underground. The finding may help conservationists rethink how to protect the threatened species.
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Are hypernovas real?
Uneven supernova explosions may explain the unusual mix of elements in Milky Way stars once thought to be evidence of hypernovas.
Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought, new study suggests
The first animals may have appeared on Earth hundreds of millions years earlier than their fossils suggest, a new modeling study suggests. Previously, the earliest
How prepared are you for a disaster?
This year’s “super” El Nino means the U.S. will likely face a higher risk of stormy weather and flooding , so experts are recommending Americans
Remarkably preserved feathered dinosaur discovered in China reveals new secrets of flying-predator evolution
An artist’s reconstruction of what the newly described bird-like dinosaur (Norellraptor barsboldi) would have looked like. (Image credit: Mr. Zhao Chuang) A predatory bird-like dinosaur
The ancestors of today’s Indigenous people arrived in the Americas during the coldest part of the last ice age, study suggests
Archaeologists have been arguing for more than a century about whether people first entered the American continents before, during or after the coldest peak of
‘A kind of Rosetta Stone’: AI decodes 217-year-old secret letter ordered by Napoleon
An engineer has utilized AI to break a previously unsolved cipher used by Napoleon Bonaparte to send secret messages to his generals — enabling us
‘It’s a portrait of their actual ancestor’: Facial reconstruction of Indigenous man who lived in Ecuador 3,000 years ago shared with his descendants
An international team has reconstructed the face of a man who lived in what’s now Ecuador more than 3,000 years ago and whose skull featured
Adversity shaped our evolution as a species. People raised in it may have underrecognized strengths because of it.
Meriah DeJoseph grew up below the poverty line, so she was intrigued in college when she started reading what researchers had to say about people
‘This is what happened with Claude and me’: AI’s failed attempt to crack the Riemann hypothesis led mathematician to a breakthrough
An artificial intelligence (AI) model’s failed attempt to crack one of math’s most notorious unsolved problems has helped a human mathematician make progress on a
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Launches
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts
What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like?
We know all about how things exist in the three dimensions of length, width, and height. Physicists often talk about time as a fourth dimension
Your voice may reveal how fast you’re aging, new AI ‘speech clock’ suggests
A new AI tool that analyzes speech could give users a glimpse of how they are aging and whether they’re at risk of dementia, a
Physicists unveil the most accurate atomic clock ever — and it could literally redefine the second
Scientists have created the most accurate atomic clock ever made — and it could literally redefine the second. Researchers recently unveiled the record-breaking device, which