The Amazon molly is an evolutionary enigma: an all-female fish that reproduces by cloning itself. Because it doesn’t mix its DNA with a mate’s, Darwinian logic holds that harmful mutations should pile ...
About a billion light-years away, an extraordinary stellar explosion lit up in the night sky. The blast, detected December 12, 2024, was some 30 times the brightness of a typical supernova, putting it ...
The bedraggled bumblebee queen seemed lifeless. Yet she was somehow alive — still breathing after being underwater for roughly a week in the lab. Did she manage to hold her breath for all that time, ...
Alaska’s glacial lakes are growing as glaciers retreat out of basins. These lakes will change desolate glacial rivers into ...
A sudden release of pressure allowed a copper-based compound to superconduct at the highest temperature yet for atmospheric ...
Zen digesters” rarely fart. “Hydrogen hyperproducers” fart a lot. Scientists are investigating what is typical.
A 2022 NASA mission changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its companion. New data shows their joint orbit around ...
A look inside the brains of extraordinarily sharp elderly people reveals clues about their unusual abilities. Deep in these ...
Ultraviolet cameras captured faint electrical flashes from leaves and branches as storm charges built up in the atmosphere.
Scientists created half-Möbius molecules, similar to the Möbius strips common in math classes, but half as twisty. It’s a ...
A new study proposes that a crash between Titan and another moon spawned Hyperion and, much later, destabilized Saturn’s ...
Homegrown chickpeas could be on the menu for future astronauts. With help from compost and symbiotic fungi, chickpea plants grow and produce seeds in simulated lunar dirt, researchers report March 5 ...
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