The recipe involves 32 minutes of egg tossing Want the perfect egg? Alternating water temperatures gives you a finished yolk without the rubbery white, a new study shows. rai/iStock / Getty Images Plu...
DNA reveals the big birds ate — and pooped — fungi crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem A purple trufflelike fungus in New Zealand was gobbled by now-extinct moa birds, spores recovered from anc...
When Yang “Sunny” Lu asked OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 to calculate 1-plus-1 a few years ago, the chatbot, not surprisingly, told her the answer was 2. But when Lu told the bot that her professor said 1-plus-1 e...
Now that Donald Trump has reassumed the presidency of the United States, scientists and legal scholars are bracing for his potential dismantling of a host of the country’s most pivotal environmental a...
A well-preserved skull hints that the enigmatic bird is a close relative to ducks and geese Vegavis iaai dives for fish in the shallow ocean waters off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, in this ar...
Only four ships have ever visited the place where Thwaites Glacier pours off the coast of West Antarctica. This swath of ocean resembles a rugged, white desert — a plain of wind-sculpted ice dotted wi...
A century ago, science went quantum. To celebrate, physicists are throwing a global, year-long party. In 1925, quantum mechanics, the scientific theory that describes the unintuitive rules of physics ...
Studying these canyons can help prepare for future human lunar missions Two grand canyons on the moon extend like bunny ears from the Schrödinger impact basin near the lunar south pole, as seen in thi...
Even as firefighters douse the deadly LA wildfires, a more insidious danger remains. Chemicals from the ashy residue of thousands of burned homes and cars, scorched plastic pipes and even lifesaving f...
Riley Black uses plant fossils to place prehistoric animals in their ecological contexts An abundance of vegetation during the late Jurassic Period drove the enormous size of herbivorous Apatosauruses...
Here, count with me: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, T, 11, 12 … Oh, what’s that? You write 10 with “zero”? Fair enough. Zero, we have been told, is the foundation of our number system. Mathematician Tobia...
Pinpointing birthplaces based on dental records can deepen understanding of the slave trade From the 15th to the 19th centuries, more than 12 million Africans were enslaved and sent to the Americas an...
