These mice have human (nerve cells) on the brain
Science Newsby Elie Dolgin·22d ago
Scientists have made mice with a remarkable amount of room for human brain tissue to grow. By genetically engineering animals lacking part of their brain, researchers created a living model in...
The U.S. has weapons in space. Here’s what that could mean
Science Newsby Emily Conover·22d ago
Since the dawn of the Space Age, the weaponization of space has been an international concern. Now the United States has announced, with few details, that it has weapons in orbit.
Alzheimer’s damage may begin outside the brain
Science Newsby RJ Mackenzie·22d ago
Destructive immune cells tied to Alzheimer’s disease may get their marching orders from cells outside the brain rather than within it.
Meet Swiftiephylus, an Australian bug named after Taylor Swift
Science Newsby Jake Buehler·23d ago
If you’re down under and you give the right tree a rustle, you might encounter a record-breaking, globally recognized music icon. Or at least a bug named after her.
Bogland explores beautifully strange ecosystems
Science Newsby Aimee Cunningham·23d ago
Bogland Merritt R. Turetsky W.W. Norton & Company, $29.99 Thank goodness Merritt Turetsky became captivated by boglands.
Feeling nervous? Work the system
Science Newsby Jamie Ducharme·24d ago
When you’re stressed, you lose control. Your sympathetic nervous system takes over, triggering the release of stress hormones into the bloodstream, which increases heart rate, blood pressure and...
These deep-sea spiders give off an otherworldly glow
Science Newsby Joshua Rapp Learn·24d ago
In the deep, dark Australian Abyss, what’s visible can be scarier than the unseen. There, giant sea spiders with glowing 25-centimeter-long legs may scuttle like disembodied apparitions.
These neutrinos from the sun have the lowest energies ever seen
Science Newsby Emily Conover·24d ago
Barely-there particles called neutrinos just got caught acting even more ethereal. With tiny masses and no electric charge, the subatomic particles rarely interact with anything, making them...
A human set a new mathematical record. Then AI came for it
Science Newsby Dana Mackenzie·27d ago
On the last day of August, a human mathematician kicked off a flurry of advances on one of the most famous problems in number theory — and was almost instantly superseded by AI.
How the body adapts to extreme heat
Science Newsby Katarina Zimmer·27d ago
“I can’t do this,” the woman in her 60s said as she lowered herself into the 40° Celsius water that filled a big silver tub at the end of a dimly lit room in the University of Ottawa’s Human and...
Historical art can hide scientific secrets
Science Newsby Bethany Brookshire·27d ago
In the upper right corner of his 1611 painting “Air,” Flemish artist Jan Brueghel the Elder drew a bat holding a songbird in its jaws.
The Sept. 11 disasters still shape people's health 25 years later
Science Newsby Aimee Cunningham·27d ago
Denise Harrison was working at Bellevue Hospital in New York City on September 11, 2001. The hospital had cleared the emergency room, anticipating a massive influx of patients after the terrorist...
Climate change is shifting malaria hot spots in Africa
Science Newsby Fechi Inyama·28d ago
Malaria, one of the world’s most prominent public health challenges, is on the move. A new study based on previous predictions of where malaria in children may appear suggests that climate change...
'Tyrant Lizard Queen' offers a nuanced look at T. rex
Science Newsby Aaron Tremper·28d ago
Tyrant Lizard Queen Riley Black St. Martin’s Press, $29.00 Tyrannosaurus rex is the ultimate villain.
Could a whale swallow a person whole?
Science Newsby Aaron Tremper·28d ago
In the upcoming movie Whalefall, scuba diver Jay Gardiner finds himself in the path of a sperm whale that is chasing a giant squid.
AI may have solved one of math’s biggest puzzles, raising controversy
Science Newsby Emily Conover·29d ago
The motion of fluids seems simple, but the equations behind it are the subject of one of the most famous puzzles in mathematics.
The shingles vaccine may protect the heart
Science Newsby Meghan Rosen·29d ago
The shingles vaccine might do your heart good. In addition to protecting people from the blistering rash, the vaccine may also lower the risk of heart disease, scientists suggest August 26 in...
Newfound fossils are spilling Denisovan secrets
Science Newsby Freda Kreier·29d ago
A long-lost cave in southwestern China has offered archaeologists their first real glimpse of Denisovan culture.
Winter work shows it really pays to be a smart mountain chickadee
Science Newsby Elizabeth Pennisi·29d ago
A mountain chickadee waking up in the Sierra Nevada range on a snowy morning has no time to dawdle.
A choir of katydid ancestors filled the Jurassic rainforest with song
Science Newsby Carolyn Wilke·8 Sept 2026
A symphony of insect songs rang through the Jurassic rainforest, and scientists have now found the traces of this ancient soundscape.
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