If wings came before flight, what were they for?
Scientists use simulated dinosaurs to trigger real insect brains and test how wings originally evolved.
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To understand black holes, physicists turn to a mathematical ‘Rosetta stone’
A link between particle physics and gravity equations, called the double copy, applies to Hawking radiation, creating a new way into black hole puzzles.
500-year-old gold dental bridge is earliest known oral care of its kind in Scotland — and it likely held a fake tooth
Archaeologists discovered the 20-karat-gold dental wire in the lower jaw of a middle-aged man who lived around 500 years ago in Scotland.
Live quantum network test in New York overcomes 2 key hurdles in creating an ‘unhackable’ internet
Scientists tested a live quantum internet between three locations across New York, inching closer to an unhackable internet.
Mangroves clean up $8.7 billion of nitrogen pollution every year, study finds
New research suggests mangroves remove 960,000 tons per year of nitrogen from global water systems, a figure that could rise to more than 5.5 million
Studying these young Alzheimer’s patients led to breakthroughs. Trump cut the funding
Families with rare gene mutations that cause Alzheimer’s in middle age are giving scientists a unique window on the disease, and a quick way to
Making a podcast helped one family talk about aging, dementia and death
This year’s winner in NPR’s College Podcast Challenge is a letter to a grandparent that grapples with health issues including dementia. It’s the story of
Hantavirus cruise LIVE: Cruise passengers being monitored in several US states as CDC prepares official guidance
Thursday, May 7, 2026: The latest news and updates on the hantavirus cluster associated with the MV Hondius. The cruise ship is on course to
‘Extremely rare’ English coins meant to ward off Vikings found in Denmark — because the Vikings wore them as jewelry
Two rare coins minted in England to ward against Viking raids have been discovered in Denmark, where Vikings made them into jewelry.
Andes virus — the only hantavirus that can spread between people — identified as culprit on cruise ship
Laboratory tests have implicated the Andes virus, a specific type of hantavirus, in the cluster of illnesses on the cruise ship MV Hondius.
A grapefruit-sized quantum device mapped Earth’s magnetic field from space
On the International Space Station, a cube holding a diamond-based sensor revealed the potential for quantum magnetometers.
25 people learned to fly with virtual wings. Here’s how the brain changed
A new study shows learning to fly in virtual reality with virtual wings can reshape the brain, making it treat wings more like body parts.
A Light in the Dark
A sliver of the edge of Earth is brightly illuminated against the vast darkness of space.
New AI model spots pancreatic cancer up to 3 years earlier than human doctors in test
A new AI tool finds early hints of pancreatic cancer in CT scans that doctors would otherwise miss, an early test found.