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How Antarctica's Blood Falls came to be
about 2 hours ago
The bright, red-orange stain on Antarctica’s ice-covered landscape may trace back to...
Senate funding resolution seeks to put OMB rule changes to research grants on hold
about 2 hours ago
The proposed changes have seen significant bipartisan pushback and have been criticized...
Cyclosporiasis cases surge while new research questions ‘protein maxxing’
about 7 hours ago
An outbreak of Cyclospora infections tied to produce spreads across multiple states...
Daddy long legs perform fellatio—and other wild facts about how these arachnids mate
about 7 hours ago
Some female daddy longlegs will perform fellatio, perhaps to avoid potential violence...
Eating less protein could help you live longer
3 days ago
While “protein maxxing” is all the rage, reducing your protein intake could...
AI helped produce two proofs for the same cryptography problem
3 days ago
An M.I.T. Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used...
Postpartum psychosis is at the center of the Lindsay Clancy trial. What is it?
3 days ago
A high-profile court case is calling attention to this rare and understudied...
3 charts show how extreme heat is costing us hours of lost sleep
4 days ago
The U.S. has been pummeled with heat waves this summer. Here’s how...
Everyone alive may carry DNA from a ‘ghost lineage’ of human ancestors
4 days ago
Scientists analyzing modern genomes may have found a long-lost branch of the...
Chilean mummies reveal a lost lineage of smallpox
4 days ago
Centuries-old DNA that was found in these mummies belongs to an extinct...
How flowers shaped the world as we know it
4 days ago
David Haskell brings readers through millions of years of botanical history for...
The untold science and drama of Lewis and Clark’s expedition
3 days ago
Historian Craig Fehrman unpacks the science, politics and human stories behind one...