Complex carbon-bearing molecules that could help explain how life got started have been identified in space for the first time. These molecules, called polycyclic aromatic…
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Hayley Gudgin of Sammamish, Wash., got her first migraine in 1991 when she was a 19-year-old nursing student. “I was convinced I was having a…
Mind readers Scientists are grappling with the ethical implications of new technology that aims to listen to and perhaps change brain activity, Laura Sanders reported…
March 11, 2020, was when the coronavirus made clear it was not going to slink away. On that day, the World Health Organization officially declared…
For decades, scientists quested after a room-temperature superconductor. Now that they’ve finally found one, the hunt is on for an even better material. Until last…
Since its discovery, the interstellar object known as ‘Oumuamua has defied explanation. First spotted in 2017, it has been called an asteroid, a comet and…
The Code BreakerWalter IsaacsonSimon & Schuster, $35 With the slightest touch, the fernlike vine known as sleeping grass folds over on itself, like a Venus…
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine is not associated with an increased risk of blood clots, the European Medicines Agency announced March 18. That’s the conclusion of an…
Thirty million years before manta rays began gracefully gliding through ocean waters, a shark with fantastically elongated fins gave such underwater flight a go, researchers…
Attentive parenting appears across the animal world, but adoption is rarer, especially when youngsters taken in aren’t kin. Now researchers have witnessed bonobos adopting infants…