Category: Science

Among the many risks astronauts face during long-haul spaceflight, an extended stay in microgravity is one of the most consequential for long-term health, with effects

Cape Cod is known for its lobsters and its growing great white shark population , but now the holiday hotspot has another extraordinary animal to

This year’s exceptionally strong El Niño has brought a rare gift to Chile’s Atacama Desert : rain. In one of the driest places on Earth

An engineering model of NASA’s DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) descent probe passed a key test that ran from

In the 1960s and ’70s, colorful comic book advertisements from the Transcience Corporation in New York City promised to mail anyone who sent cash, check

A waterborne pathogen flourishes while toads shelter underground. The finding may help conservationists rethink how to protect the threatened species.

Uneven supernova explosions may explain the unusual mix of elements in Milky Way stars once thought to be evidence of hypernovas.

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

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

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

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

An engineer has utilized AI to break a previously unsolved cipher used by Napoleon Bonaparte to send secret messages to his generals — enabling us

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

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