Category: Science

Scientists don’t know much about the rare bumblebee catfish, native to the rivers of Brazil. One research team was lucky enough to observe thousands of

People were forced to leave their pets behind during Hurricane Katrina, creating an unprecedented animal welfare crisis that has shaped the country’s disaster response ever

Immune cells in aging cat brains with amyloid beta destroy nerve endings, mimicking the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in humans.

Japan’s first entirely homegrown quantum computer uses superconducting qubits and components made entirely domestically.

A 2016 astronaut photo shows surprising plumes of milky material swirling in the waters of Turkey’s Lake Van, the largest alkaline lake on Earth.

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits on the ramp at sunrise before ground tests at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, on

In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was a graduate student in

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, three new studies of the asteroid’s

In a first, scientists in China transplanted a lung from a pig into a human so they could see how the host immune system handled

This extremely detailed depiction of insects holds clues to the natural world of the ancient Minoans.

U.S. officials confirmed a case of the flesh-eating parasite in a person who traveled from El Salvador. Screwworm typically affects cattle in South America but

An experiment with threadfin butterflyfish finds that these fish may experience pleasure while being cleaned by bluestreak cleaner wrasse — suggesting this capacity goes far

Hurricane forecasts are now much more accurate, 20 years on — largely because of federal government research. (Image credit: David J. Phillip)

The genetically modified lung remained viable for nine days, but the recipient’s immune responses need more research, scientists say.