As 2015 wound down, a foreboding but catchy phrase from a scientific paper blew across the cultural landscape with unexpected force. The expression “deaths of…
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After the coldest night in south Florida in a decade, lizards were dropping out of palm trees, landing legs up. The scientists who raced to…
Exactly how the coronavirus kills is a mystery. But part of the problem may be a partnership between just two immune system chemicals that triggers…
Nearly 2,000 years ago, a cloud of scorching ash from Mount Vesuvius buried a young man as he lay on a wooden bed. That burning…
Mysterious, now-extinct members of the human lineage called Denisovans lived at the roof of the world for possibly 100,000 years or more. Denisovan mitochondrial DNA…
Some spiders wait for prey to come and tickle their web. But the ogre-faced spider (Deinopis spinosa) uses its sense of hearing to take its…
Octopus arms have minds of their own. Each of these eight supple yet powerful limbs can explore the seafloor in search of prey, snatching crabs…
Earth is awash in gravitational waves. Over a six-month period, scientists captured a bounty of 39 sets of gravitational waves. The waves, which stretch and…
It was one of those “big, if true” stories. In September, scientists reported that Venus’ atmosphere seems to be laced with phosphine, a possible sign…
According to legend, Galileo dropped weights off of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, showing that gravity causes objects of different masses to fall with the…