Science
The grave of nearly 600 cats and dogs in ancient Egypt may be the world’s oldest pet cemetery
A dog buried in Berenice was protected with a piece of pottery. M. Osypinska Cats and dogs lie as if...
Brazil’s first homemade satellite will pay extra attention to the declining Amazon forests
A new Brazilian satellite would enable real-time forest clearing monitoring in the Amazon. Photo / Rodrigo Abd The fate of...
This complex microbial warfare takes place in a single drop of water
K. Turnau Deep inside the cooling pools of the wastewater treatment plant, microbiologists have uncovered stealth alliances and intrigues competing...
The first organism to use oxygen may have surprised surprisingly early
nnorozoff / iStock The first organisms to "inhale" oxygen - or at least use it - beads 3.1 billion years...
Male lyrebirds mimic bullying herds when having sex
Alex Maisey When birds spot a predator, they grow tall. They shout noisily and make other birds join in and...
Journals designated for favoritism
The French doctor Didier Raoult is the author of a third of the pers in a single journal. Alain aydin...
Dutch research funding agency, paralyzed by ransomware attacks, refuses to pay up
Poravute / iStock Hackers yesterday released a batch of internal documents from the Dutch Scientific Research Organization (NWO) on the...
Hungry teenage dinosaurs pushed their competitors out
Every parent of growing teens knows that their petites can reach gigantic proportions. Now imagine that you had a young...
Measuring the Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator
Kyungduk Kim / Yale University First up, science journalist Julia Rosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about a growing fleet...
Chemists close greener way of making plastic
Conventional production of polyethylene, which is powered by fossil fuels, could one day be replaced by chemical reactors that depend...
Bizarre, bloblike motion of microscopic creature can leave traces of early animal motion
Evolutionary biologist Thibaut Brunet studied single-celled organisms called choanoflagellates when he noticed something strange: The microbes are typically stiff, but...
How fairy circles are formed in Shanghai’s salt marshes
Arid areas in Namibia and Australia are well known for their fairy circles - barren rings that dot grasslands and...
The remains of the oldest American dog reinforce the idea that the first humans arrived along the coast
DNA analysis of this nail-shaped fragment of bone showed that it once belonged to the oldest known dog in America....
After dramatic landing, Mars Rover will explore the ancient lake for clues to the planet’s wet past
A panorama taken on February 20 showed the endurance goal - the edge of a fossil river delta - looming...
As trials arise, physicians stress the need to vaccinate children against COVID-19
A teenager gets shot in a clinical trial with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL Science''s COVID-19 reporting is supported...
Coronavirus strains in California can be more contagious – and deadly
Masked pedestrians during an increase in coronavirus cases in the San Francisco Bay Area in December 2020. A new study...
Rare cosmic neutrino is traced to stellar black hole
When a supermassive black hole tears a star art (pictured here), it produces plenty of light - and perhaps neutrinos...
Brain cell clusters grown in the laboratory for more than a year reflect changes in a newborn brain
Cells in brain organoids made from human stem cells can mature to resemble those of a postnatal brain. S. Pasca...
The US National Science Foundation could get $ 600 million in bill for pandemic
The National Science Foundation (NSF) was able to receive an additional $ 600 million as part of the massive bill...
Mars robbers send ‘overwhelming’ video, sound back from the red planet
Just four March days after touching the red planet, NASA's Perseverance rover has sent its first video back of its...
Road m to American fusion power plant comes into clearer focus – sort of
A concept for a fusion pilot plant from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alexander Creely Plans to build a prototype...
Humble dung beetles can be ideal DNA detectors for animal studies
DNA found inside the intestines of dung beetles, such as the giant flattened manure beetle, could one day be used...
New UK funding agency wanted to tackle innovative research
UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said this week that a new high-risk UK research agency would be located within his...
The ‘sky crane’ of endurance creates descent from Mars
NASA / JPL-CALTECH Sometimes it pays to bring your own photographers. Cameras mounted on the sky crane that brought endurance...
Scientists stepped into people’s dreams and made them “talk”
Researchers analyzed brain signals and eye and face movements in people who engage in clear dreamy "conversations." K. Konkoly In...
