Science & Space

Mount Kaputar pink slug: The giant hot-pink mollusk fou...

The 8-inch, bright pink slug has been isolated in a "sky island" for millions of...

Why are flies attracted to humans?

Flies are attracted to our pungent "cloud of effervescence," experts say.

Science news this week: 'Impossible' black holes and An...

Feb. 8, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a...

Astronomers discover 'Quipu', the single largest struct...

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clu...

In a 1st, ancient proteins reveal sex of human relative...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and d...

'Wandering' contraceptive implant travels to woman's lu...

A woman's contraceptive implant ended up in her lung; doctors believe the device...

January 2025 hottest on record despite US cold and La Niña

La Niña and record cold temperatures in the U.S. should have made Earth cooler, ...

Stunning, rainbow-colored object spotted by James Webb ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy....

Orcas off Antarctica filmed teaching calves to hunt in ...

The adult orcas swam around the ice demonstrating how to pull a seal off by its ...

Alaska's ice is melting in front of our eyes, staggerin...

Unusual weather patterns and climate change have been driving stark changes in t...

11,000-year-old settlement in Canada could rewrite hist...

The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indige...

Coldest-ever qubits could lead to faster quantum computers

Scientists have cooled qubits to record low temperatures using a quantum refrige...

Romania's trovants: The bulbous 'living' rocks that ins...

Trovants are rocks that grow by absorbing minerals from rainwater. Romania is ho...

NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in Februar...

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the e...

2nd form of bird flu detected in US cows

A branch of the H5N1 bird flu family tree that hadn't previously been seen in ca...

Scientists are building an ultimate atlas of the vagina...

Scientists are studying the vaginal microbiome in populations all around the wor...

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