Ask Clara Sousa-Silva about her research and she’ll be absolutely clear: Yes, she is looking for aliens. But she is not hunting them. “The idea [more…]
A Costa Rican pirate spider lives up to the family name: It tricks closely related orb weaver spiders into “walking the plank,” right to their [more…]
Scientists have only observed supermassive black holes one billion years after the Big Bang, but astrophysicists have now breached this barrier. Astronomical observations made in [more…]
Based on the bizarre laws of quantum mechanics, quantum computers are widely regarded as the future of computing and information technology. The quantum nature of [more…]
Like teenage Romeos toting sticker-plastered guitar cases, male palm cockatoos show that romancing a crush with a love song isn’t just about music — it’s [more…]
CrossingsBen GoldfarbW.W. Norton & Co., $30 Nearly 65 million kilometers of roadway crisscross the Earth — enough to encircle the planet more than 1,600 times [more…]
Scientists have successfully grown kidneys made of mostly human cells inside pig embryos — taking researchers yet another step down the long road toward generating [more…]
Fungi. They grow between toes, on bread and in the shower. But the organisms also produce food and medicine and act as ecosystem maids by [more…]
Thousands of emperor penguins in western Antarctica lost their chicks last year, largely due to receding sea ice, satellite data suggest. Over the last two [more…]
A new look at the Iceman’s DNA reveals that his ancestors weren’t who scientists previously thought. In 2012, scientists compiled a complete picture of Ötzi’s [more…]
