Clues from a chemical — Science News, October 3, 1970 An experimental drug’s effects on the sexual behavior of certain animals is arousing interest among investigators.……
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The Milky Way’s core harbors two giants: the galaxy’s largest black hole and a cluster of tens of millions of stars around the black hole…
What could be more 2020 than an ongoing invasion of jumping worms? These earthworms are wriggling their way across the United States, voraciously devouring protective…
Supercooled water may be a two-for-one deal. A long-standing theory holds that liquid water at temperatures well below freezing is composed of two different arrangements…
Fresh intel from Mars is sure to stir debate about whether liquid water lurks beneath the planet’s polar ice. New data from a probe orbiting…
Schrödinger’s WebJonathan P. DowlingCRC Press, $40.95 When news broke last year that Google’s quantum computer Sycamore had performed a calculation faster than the fastest supercomputers…
Birds of a fossil feather Four-winged Microraptor, perhaps one of the earliest flying dinosaurs, may have molted just a bit at a time — similar…
With humankind focused on surviving the SARS-CoV-2 virus, I find it oddly reassuring to think about other deadly foes we’ve faced. Some, like the virus…
Tiny robots can operate as nerve cell connectors, bridging gaps between two distinct groups of cells. These microscopic patches may lead to more sophisticated ways…
A two-month stint on the moon would expose astronauts to roughly the same amount of radiation as they would get living on the International Space…