At some 60 billion times the mass of the sun, this dark void could be home to a pair of black holes that are due for a cosmic ...

Rather than catching a yawn on sight, muscles squeezing the uterus could be the trigger for a fetus to catch a yawn from its ...

Some rodents in South America carry arenaviruses and hantaviruses. Climate change may bring both to regions where neither is ...

Spiders, thank goodness, haven’t evolved assassin drones. But the specialized hunters of the family Archaeidae can kill at a distance. It’s a distance of only a few millimeters. But that’s substantial ...

Human-driven carbon pollution is wreaking havoc on the global climate, from bleaching tropical corals to melting polar ice caps. But the amount of carbon in Earth’s oceans and atmosphere barely ...

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Public health officials are racing to find out how the sometimes deadly hantavirus got aboard a cruise ship and if there has ...

The idea came to Jablonski after studying bird behavior in the American West. He noticed some birds would fling out their ...

In ‘A Voice in the Wilderness,’ Joseph L. Graves Jr. discusses his scientific journey, how he debates racists, and more.

A new study shows learning to fly in virtual reality with virtual wings can reshape the brain, making it treat wings more ...

A link between particle physics and gravity equations, called the double copy, applies to Hawking radiation, creating a new ...

DNA damage from inflammation outpaces the cells’ ability to self-repair. The finding, in human brain cells and mice, could ...