Watch an orca ram into a sunfish so hard it explodes
This strategy expands orcas’ already broad repertoire for dispatching different types of prey.
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Measles cases in the U.S. hit a new 34-year high
The U.S. hasn’t seen measles numbers like this since 1992. An epidemiologist explains what’s driving the surge.
‘It was unlike anything I’d witnessed before’: Orcas seen headbutting a sunfish so hard that it exploded
One of the ocean’s most intelligent and aggressive predators has once again surprised scientists with a curious new behavior. In the Gulf of California, researchers
‘Once we were like you’: Striking reconstructions reveal the faces of 16 people from Roman-era Hungary
The face of a young woman crowned with a laurel wreath, buried in elaborate clothing and unusual cork sandals, has appeared nearly 1,700 years after
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft awakens from yearlong hibernation to do unprecedented science beyond Pluto
There’s nothing more disorienting than falling asleep in transit only to wake up and find you’ve somehow drifted billions of miles beyond the orbit of
A New Look – and Sound – for Messier 94
Messier 94 is a spiral galaxy with a bright inner ring around it, called a starburst ring, where new stars are forming.
Mice on ‘godforsaken’ frozen volcanoes eat toxic plants to survive conditions ‘not remotely compatible with long-term human survival’
Scientists have discovered how mice survive at extreme altitudes on the tips of icy dormant volcanoes in the Andes. The area where the mice call
Sacrificed Inca children died very differently than we thought, study finds
Inca boys and girls chosen for human sacrifice trekked through Inca communities for thousands of miles on sacred pilgrimages before their ritual deaths, often near
NASA astronaut shares image of impossible-looking ‘hopper’ crystal growing on the space station. What is happening?
Astronauts have grown a common crystal in space — but this extraterrestrial version is exhibiting a very uncommon behavior. Under a microscope, the crystal looks
A rare 3-D snake fossil is spilling secrets of its unusual lifestyle
A new snake’s unique head anatomy suggests early snakes were even more diverse than thought. This one was a rare burrower.
A newly found world blurs the boundary between planet and moon
The object orbits a brown dwarf that orbits a star, and astronomers aren’t sure if it’s a planet, a moon — or something else entirely.
Diagnostic dilemma: 6-year-old develops life-threatening allergic reaction after blood transfusion
The patient: A 6-year-old boy in the Netherlands The symptoms: The child was receiving a blood transfusion as a treatment for lymphoblastic leukemia , a
‘It’s a really poor quality of life’: Once a ‘miracle in the desert,’ California’s Salton Sea now spreads toxic dust on vulnerable communities
Fifty years after Southern California’s Salton Sea formed due to an engineering mishap in 1905, the giant salt lake became a booming vacation destination. Nicknamed
Science word of the day: Abiogenesis
Science word of the day: Abiogenesis Pronunciation: Ay-bye-oh-JEN’-ih-sis What it means: Abiogenesis is the emergence of life from nonliving matter through chemical processes. Scientists still