The blast challenges theories of how these flashes form The CHIME telescope array in Canada, shown here, detected a fast radio burst coming from an unusual location. CHIME, Andre Renard/Dunlap Institu...
Canute, king of England during the 11th century, achieved legendary status by ordering his servants to carry his throne to the shore, whereupon he ordered the tide to stop rising. When the ocean did n...
Life of the party Margaret S. Collins, the first Black female entomologist in the United States to earn a Ph.D., overcame racism and sexism to become a field biologist and termite expert, life science...
The defense mechanism exploits the predators’ keen scent detection Ink released by the common cuttlefish (shown) may barrage sharks’ smell sensors to deter the predators, according to a new study. Yim...
The image is part of work to understand whether sharks coordinate their attacks on prey A school of hardyhead silverside fish (Atherinomorus lacunosus) flees from four blacktip reef sharks near the sh...
Scientists say they have cracked the perfect recipe Want the perfect egg? Alternating water temperatures gives you a finished yolk without the rubbery white, a new study shows. rai/iStock / Getty Imag...
The same version of the bird flu that has caused the most serious human illnesses in North America has now turned up in dairy cows. Cattle in Nevada tested positive for the H5N1 viral variant D1.1, wh...
Layers in its shell absorb high-energy waves, preventing cracking and tissue damage The peacock mantis shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus) has powerful, hammer-like weaponry (outer tan and white limbs, ...
So many of us struggle to fall asleep and stay there through the night. About a third of U.S. adults aren’t sleeping enough. Teenagers’ sleep is even worse; 8 in 10 teens are sleep deprived. Our colle...
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...
