The motion kicks off inflammation but may also combat harmful bacteria Scratching an itch feels so good, but it may make inflammation worse, a study of mice suggests. FotoDuets/Getty Scratching an itc...
At first glance, it’s a simple scene. Six adult bison and a calf mill around a stream. But Matt Davis invites me to look closer. We are at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, where Davis is an ...
The discovery sheds light on the origins of continents and life on our planet This open pit mine in Anshan, China, contains rocks from the Archean Eon, 4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago, that help pi...
While staring at their own reflections, the monkeys didn’t react to a laser dot on their face Wild baboons will look at themselves in a large mirror, but they do not respond to the reflection of a las...
Elon Musk’s sense of humor is out of this world. Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for A...
One pterosaur species gave itself quite the makeover as it grew older and larger. Scientists have spent more than a century wondering if a large and anatomically quirky flying reptile fossil represent...
That may be why the galaxy’s oldest stars have fewer planets than ones in our neighborhood Stars in the Milky Way’s central thin disk (brightest region in this image from the Gaia spacecraft) have mor...
A landslide in thawing permafrost has revealed 770,000-year-old buried ice In the headwall scarp of a landslide on Bylot Island in northeastern Canada, researchers uncovered the remnant ice of an anci...
This is the first study of copycat urination in an animal These chimps at a sanctuary in Japan display surprisingly contagious bathroom behavior. Kumamoto Sanctuary Hate waiting in line for the bathro...
If cigarettes contained very little of the chemical that keeps people smoking, it could help smokers move away from these deadly products. That’s the rationale behind a new rule proposed on January 15...
Even as firefighters are starting to gain ground on the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, residents there are just beginning to grapple with the emotional trauma of the disaster. The fires have, s...
It’s a pivotal moment for nuclear weapons. Tensions between the United States and Russia, the two major nuclear powers, are high. Longstanding nuclear pacts have crumbled. China, which trails well beh...
