“We didn’t evolve in an environment with so much information, and now there is so much available. We just consume information all the time.”

Mathematical analyses suggest that the ghost particle could've come from a theoretical object known as a primordial black hole, researchers report.

Post-workout cold plunges may be having a moment, but a study dunks on the practice. After a tough workout, muscle recovery was no better in women who immersed themselves in chilly water than in women who didn’t. No recovery benefits came from a hot soak, either.

Pull or throw? These dogs can sort their toys based entirely on how they’re used during play.

For October, we have another math puzzle — try it here!

The space environment may impart a unique taste of space on foods fermented there. For miso, that led to a nuttier, more roasted flavor, according to a study.

The highest energy neutrino ever detected from space may finally have an origin story.

Efforts to save reproductive tissue from kids treated for cancer represent a concerted focus on improving their quality of life by preserving their fertility.

Directly dating the eggs could therefore answer myriad questions, researchers say — even about the final days of the dinosaurs.

Octopus arms may appear identical, but certain arms are used more for specific tasks.

At that time in the 1920s, astronomers believed that stars were essentially just hot Earths. Payne-Gaposchkin was asking her senior colleagues to throw out everything they thought they’d known about stars and write the universe anew.

Southeast Asians created mummified ancestors long before Egyptians did.

Salt, ice and some oomph are everything you need to make waste-free electricity.

Creating an Earthlike atmosphere is just one of many challenges to making Mars habitable.

Satiating curiosity activates the brain’s reward circuits in much the same way as satiating hunger.

Sometimes even bats need a sick day.

Vaccination is still important to ward off the worst of the coronavirus. Three experts discuss the concerns with restricting access.

Thought to have emerged right after the Big Bang, primordial black holes could reveal the origin of super energetic neutrinos and answer long-standing queries about black holes and dark matter.

Researchers demonstrated the technology by modifying a hot glue gun to 3-D print the material directly onto bone fractures in rabbits. Instead of using a regular glue stick, they employed a specially made “bioink,” the team reports.

Diagnoses for several cancers before age 50 have been increasing rapidly since the 1990s. Scientists don’t know why, but they have a few suspects.

Some dogs not only know their toys by name, but can also sort them by function, or how they’re used during play.

Head-scratching observations of distant galaxies are challenging cosmologists’ dominant ideas about the universe, potentially leading to the implication that the strange substance called dark matter doesn’t exist.

Controlling blood pressure can help lower the risk of stroke, heart attach and heart failure.

If you want to walk on water, it helps to have fancy feet.

Asteroid impacts, microbes, mining: These are a few tactics engineers might one day use to create an Earthlike atmosphere on Mars. buff.ly/NmJH1lS

From vivid coral reefs to the stark expanse of an Arctic tundra, all of an ecosystem's species count towards its biodiversity. That’s this week’s word.

Satellite tracking of whale sharks off the coast of western Australia shows how oil and gas platforms influence the movements of these gentle giants.

Researchers warn that halting federal contracts for mRNA vaccine research could weaken pandemic preparedness and slow medical advances.

Residents of San Diego’s South Bay have long complained about foul smells from the Tijuana River. Now, a study shows that river pollution is affecting air quality. buff.ly/QtgWfeb

What if we trained face recognition on faces that don’t exist? Scientists say synthetic data could protect privacy and fight bias.

Though GLP-1 drugs are known for their weight loss, they can reduce heart attack risk, may ease migraines and could curb addiction. Now, new research suggests the meds may also lower the risk of some cancers.

How do you survive in the dark and cold for millions of years? Eat rocks.

Having a cold first was associated with a lower risk of developing a coronavirus infection next, a new study finds. The research may partly explain why kids, who tend to have more colds than adults, end up with milder bouts of COVID.

Cats are known to develop dementia. A new study finds that aging cats have markers that mimic Alzheimer’s disease in humans.

Some single-celled life-forms known as hyperthermophiles like it hot. For some types, if you step into the hot springs where they live, “your skin will basically just fall off your bones.”

THC, the main psychoactive chemical in marijuana, may help eggs become ready for fertilization. But this could come at the cost of more eggs with the wrong number of chromosomes.

Venice’s winged lion statue was a modified Chinese creation.

Mars may have a hardened heart.

These ripples in spacetime are the clearest yet discovered. www.sciencenews.org/article/ring...

“We must be precise about what we measure and communicate. Overstating the evidence risks undermining credibility.”

Wavelike patterns in 115-million-year-old amber suggest that a long-ago tsunami inundated what is now northern Japan, researchers report.

Rivers polluted with sewage can smell terrible. A study of the Tijuana River in San Diego shows that water pollution can also affect air quality.

Male fruit flies’ giant sperm can pack tightly into small spaces without tangling. Inside the seminal vesicles, sperm organize into an orderly arrangement, traveling in opposing directions in aligned paths.

WISPIT 2b confirms astronomers’ theory that planets create the rings often observed within protoplanetary disks. buff.ly/nnjy3T6

Carbon monoxide, an odorless, colorless gas, can be deadly. A study in mice suggests that a bioengineered protein could one day help people get fast treatment.

One mutation may have been critical to the stability and strength needed in ridden horses.

It’s the first planet seen forging a path in the gas and dust that birthed it.

Rideable horses were a pivotal shift for human societies, setting the stage for far greater mobility and changing the face of war and transportation.

Here’s a twist: Adding zigzags to walls could help cool an overheated building, even as global temperatures rise. (From 2024)

Some flowers may be using their pollinators as sexual battlegrounds. (From 2024)