A private rocket mission aims to boost NASA’s Swift telescope before its orbit decays, extending its hunt for gamma-ray bursts.
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Walking sharks crawl on their fins across reefs and even out into tide pools. The newfound Dudgeon walking shark brings the known species count to 10.
<em>Euplotes gigatrox</em>’s shape-shifting may reveal how early life learned to act in surprisingly complex ways.
New experiments show that octopuses can understand where an item is based solely on its reflection.
The High-Luminosity LHC, planned to switch on in 2030, could help physicists unravel mysteries about the Higgs boson, dark matter and more.
Renaissance painter Jan Brueghel the Elder painted a bat eating a bird — 400 years before scientists would document the behavior.
New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be double or triple previous estimates.
Reassuring evidence on acetaminophen’s safety in pregnancy keeps growing, with another study that compares siblings with different prenatal exposures.
New AI models are accelerating the game of cat-and-mouse as cybersecurity experts try to keep ahead of would-be hackers. An AI expert explains the risks.
The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria may be part of the secret.
Newborn mice neurons can snap both DNA strands to migrate, then repair the breaks within a day. The process may be a normal part of brain development.
Iron and hydrogen peroxide trigger cell death via ferroptosis, which cascades killer molecules through the population, causing mass die-offs of algae.
Scientists thought angiosperms didn’t use animals to spread seeds until after the Age of Dinosaurs. Fossilized fruits from these plants challenge this idea.
Archaeologists have unearthed new evidence that indicates hominids used fire up to 1.79 million years ago.
The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.
Researchers were unsure whether alpha particles would aid or hinder fusion. Simulations suggest they help, by dampening turbulence.
A prehistoric scorpion was the largest ever to exist, and it may have preyed on land and freshwater species.
Most known for its role in movement, the cerebellum could compensate for flagging mental functions elsewhere in the brain.
An imaging study found early signs of coronary artery disease in people in Canada breathing air that regulators consider clean.
A newly-described dinosaur, <em>Jian changmaensis</em>, may have glided through northwestern China about 120 million years ago, wreaking havoc on birds.
At least a dozen animals have been found with the flesh-eating maggots. It could take more than a year to eradicate the parasite again, experts warn.
Detached tissues from the sea cucumber's tube feet and feeding tentacles survived for more than three years, a find that could shape the study of aging.
Vast permafrost beneath the upper slopes of Peru’s tallest volcano could become a regional water source as glaciers in the Andes retreat.
Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses NASA's rocky relationship with Mars exploration.
The wave's round trip to Earth's core set off a fault slip along Japan's plate boundaries, revealing a seismic hazard scientists hadn't recognized.