Category: Science

Fecal analyses and necropsies suggest a fire-footed rope squirrel was the source of a 2023 mpox outbreak among sooty mangabeys in Côte d’Ivoire.

Rufus net-casting spiders can tune the stiffness and elasticity of their webs thanks to loops of silk, scanning electron microscope images reveal.

A new study suggests that the Agouti gene in the brains of male African striped mice can act as a molecular “switch,” making them caring

Ancient artifacts unearthed in Alaska revealed migrants from Asia might have come to the Americas via an inland route, and not a coastal path.

Some experts have suggested as many as 1 in 200 men in the world are related to Genghis Khan. But a new genomic study reveals

For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary

The Coros Pace 4 packs lots of features into a small and light fitness tracker. It’s not perfect, but it could make the ideal first

The final “blood moon” total lunar eclipse until 2029 is coming to North America this Tuesday (March 3). Here’s how to watch it online.

A 2021 satellite photo shows off the recently uncovered Yilan crater in China, which is most likely the youngest impact structure on Earth. The incomplete

A collapsed lava tube detected in 30-year-old radar data from Venus may be part of a much wider network of underground caves.

An analysis of a mass grave found in northern Serbia is revealing new information about violence in Early Iron Age Europe.

NASA is about to roll its Artemis II moon rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building to fix a helium flow issue that guarantees astronauts

An ancient, fast-feeding quasar is breaking the rules of how black holes consume matter and generate galaxy-shaping jets.

At least 1.4 million seagulls feed at landfills across North America, which aside from the nuisance it might pose, is also a threat to the