The world’s best hot dog eaters could outeat a grizzly bear or a coyote, but would fall far behind a wolf or a Burmese python, a new study finds.
The thistledown velvet ant (which is actually a wasp) resembles creosote fuzz. But mimicry isn’t the reason, a new study suggests.
Along a coastline in New Zealand, kelp seems to contain a genetic record of the planet’s geological upheaval.
The launch of the Hope orbiter was delayed because of weather. The mission’s goal is to make contributions to research on the red planet. But the Emirati government really hopes it will inspire future scientists.
When it comes to finding a vaccine for chlamydia, the world’s most common sexually transmitted infection, koalas may prove a key ally.
Researchers in Singapore developed a system that’s sort of like noise-canceling headphones for your whole apartment.
The number of wild animals killed by vehicle traffic was down as much as 45 percent in Maine and 21 percent in California, according to a U.C. Davis report.
Astronomers have discovered a vast assemblage of galaxies hidden behind our own, in the “zone of avoidance.”
Unlike vertebrate embryo cells, which signal to each other over long distances, sea squirt embryo cells talk only to those they’re closest to.
The extinct South American animal made us believe it was as fierce as a saber-tooth cat, but a new study suggests it was a mere scavenger.
A new genetic study suggests that Polynesians made an epic voyage to South America 800 years ago.
The recently discovered species covers coral in a thick layer and suffocates it. Scientists don’t know where it came from.
The agency identified the causes of mishaps in orbit during an uncrewed test flight of its Starliner spacecraft in December.
You’ll need more than a few — say, 300 decillion. And good luck trying to throw it.
Some conservationists say the recent die-off in Botswana could be natural, but others expressed more concern.
First Nations peoples along British Columbia’s Central Coast led research to help preserve the area’s white-furred Spirit bears.
Animals called caecilians may have been among the first vertebrates on land to lace their bites with venom.
He believed pot was dangerous until his research convinced him otherwise. He then became a leading proponent of legalization.
Over 20 years, scientists tracked the transformation of the traditional trill of a common bird from western Canada to Ontario.
His research helped inspire “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell’s best-selling book on the keys to excelling.
After a concerted reintroduction effort two decades ago, the state is now home to the largest population of elk east of the Mississippi. The animals’ home: reclaimed coal mines.
Growing evidence shows most infected people aren’t spreading the virus. But whether you become a superspreader probably depends more on circumstance than biology.
Growing evidence shows most infected people aren’t spreading the virus. But whether you become a superspreader probably depends more on circumstance than biology.
As they wiggle and undulate, the snakes are transforming their bodies for flight.
When a planarian loses its eyes, cellular guides connect new ones to its brain so it can see again.
At Stanford, he created the world’s first successful sleep clinic and taught a popular class on sleep and dreams. (If he caught a student dozing, he’d wake him with a water gun.)
In an influential book, he defied the idea that being gay, as he was, is an illness, and took on psychiatry’s “history of homophobia.” He died of the coronavirus.
When the garden gets perilous, these pollinators hit the gas.
A recent expedition to the inky depths of the Coral Sea revealed an unknown world of creatures and geologic features.
He lived a life of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll before settling into a fulfilling job at M.I.T. late in life. He died of the coronavirus.
Astronomers claim to have seen a flash from the merger of two black holes within the maelstrom of a third, far bigger one.
A behavior called shelling is learned from peers, unlike other feeding strategies that are passed from mother to calf.
Compared in size with modern black bears, the extinct species offers a new window into the large vombatiforms that once lived in Australia.
Fossils and modern DNA show the ancient roots of Arctic sled dogs.
For a century, quantum theory has been scientific orthodoxy. The Italian physicist Angelo Bassi is certain it isn’t the full story — and that he can prove it.
Jackson’s contributions received widespread attention after the release of the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” which chronicled black women’s work during the space race.
Ms. Jackson’s contributions received widespread attention after the release of the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” which chronicled black women’s work during the space race.
Ms. Jackson’s contributions received widespread attention after the release of the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” which chronicled black women’s work during the space race.
Bayer faced tens of thousands of claims linking the weedkiller to cases of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Some of the money is set aside for future cases.
His monumental dictionary, after years of field work, documented Tzotzil in southern Mexico. But that was just the start of his efforts to preserve the culture.
Scientists have discovered the heaviest known neutron star, or maybe the lightest known black hole: “Either way it breaks a record.”
Gambling on shark migration patterns could raise awareness, some experts say. But it could also fuel the animals’ reputation as mere entertainment.
As part of its next Mars mission, NASA is sending an experimental helicopter to fly through the red planet’s thin atmosphere.
Scientists have linked historical political instability to a number of volcanic events, the latest involving an eruption in the Aleutian Islands.
The dry and dusty layer of air can enhance sunrises and suppress storms.
Researchers propose a new model to explain the formation of most of the meteorites that make it to Earth.
Paternal care has evolved dozens of times in aquatic life, and is more common than maternal or combined parenting.
As you mark the longest day of the year, consider the debate among astronomers over whether Earth’s tilt toward the sun helps make life on our world and others possible.
New research shows that the nectar-drinking birds use their enhanced color vision to distinguish sources of food.
Pandemic fears have created interest in metallic products touting antimicrobial properties. But experts have doubts about the copper craze.
DNA tests show an increase in the number of animals with positive tests for some coronaviruses from the time they are trapped until they arrive on someone’s dinner plate.
Seven years ago, entrepreneurs planned trips to the stratosphere, but tourists never got off the ground. They’re trying again.
Some researchers interpret a new timeline of some of the formation’s biggest eruptions as evidence that its activity is waning.
Researchers in Japan have developed a soap bubble-based pollination method that is as effective as doing it by hand.
Over 100 million years ago in what is now South Korea, evolution experimented with nine-foot-long bipedal reptiles.
A football-size egg from Antarctica and baby dinosaurs from Mongolia and Argentina shine new light on ancient reptile reproduction.
In one of Europe's most impressive Stone Age burial mounds, researchers found evidence of brother-sister incest that suggests the existence of a ruling elite.
Do signals from beneath an Italian mountain herald a revolution in physics?
Day laborers who lack adequate health care and housing are particularly vulnerable, as cases rise across the Americas.
Does he start each day wondering what expert advice to ignore next?
It sometimes seems that automated bots are taking over social media and driving human discourse. But some (real) researchers aren’t so sure.
Rescued from Australia’s fires, a small fleet of wild platypuses is launched back into their wetland home and into an uncertain future.
Researchers enlisted quantum physics to send a “secret key” for encrypting and decrypting messages between two stations 700 miles apart.
A new study suggests the interloper may have arisen in an interstellar cloud, where stars are sometimes born.
A look at all the vaccines that have reached trials in humans.
The Crew Dragon launch is now scheduled for Saturday at 3:22 p.m. Eastern time.
Scientists are using many techniques to develop coronavirus vaccines.
The virus has mutated. But that doesn’t mean it’s getting deadlier.
El virus ha mutado. Pero eso no significa que se esté volviendo más mortal.
We visualized a cough to show how far respiratory droplets can spread. If you haven’t been keeping your distance to fight the coronavirus, this may persuade you.
Surviving disaster, in the astronauts’ words and photographs.
The virus injects a tiny but remarkably complex strand of RNA into infected cells.
El intrincado viaje que sigue en el cuerpo el virus que causa COVID-19.
El intrincado viaje que sigue en el cuerpo el virus que causa COVID-19.
The intricate journey of the virus that causes Covid-19.
