In what now seems to be an egregious oversight on the part of Apple, the scientific community this week flagged an…
You’ve probably heard the term “cute aggression” thrown around over the years. It describes the odd but seemingly…
For all the good that antibiotics do, relying on them too much can have pretty drastic drawbacks. In particular, their…
Astronomer Steven Bellavia at Brookhaven National Labs caught a neat picture of the crescent Moon this past Monday,…
China launched its Chang’e 4 lander and rover today (December 8, 2:22 a.m. local time) from the Xichang Satellite…
I noticed something in the distance while clicking along rural U.S. Route 59 in Minnesota, 80 miles southeast of…
A 68-year-old Seattle woman who died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba used regular tap water to rinse her…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission won’t just take pretty pictures of the asteroid Bennu—it will also help scientists learn…
It’s been 11 days since InSight made its picture-perfect landing on Mars. Vivid new photos taken from the landing site…
Though it resembles a coral, root system, or some other kind of growth, the above photo actually depicts a…
The atmosphere of a gas giant exoplanet located 163 light-years from Earth is being blasted into space by its host…
The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, will be turned off for the next two years for upgrades.…
The manufacturer of a common infants’ over-the-counter pain medication is pulling some of its products off the shelves…
Long before the two deadliest pandemics in history—the Plague of Justinian and the Black Plague—an ancient strain of…
A dark matter experiment in South Korea may soon confirm or deny an outstanding piece of dark matter evidence.
If the water pouring out your sink is full of lead, you might reasonably turn to bottled water. That’s exactly what…
The world’s oldest wild bird, Wisdom the Laysan albatross, has once again returned to her breeding grounds, and she has …
Archaeologists in London, England have uncovered a dramatic 500-year-old male skeleton lying face-down in the mud of…
Ichthyosaurs and dolphins are the archetypal examples of convergent evolution in action, in which two completely…
The road ahead is rocky for those hoping to build quantum computers, according to a new report from the National…
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