Category Science

Alcohol might seem like a uniquely human invention. But in tropical forests, it’s been forming on its own for millions of years. As fruit ripens in Uganda’s rainforest, sugars break…

Developments in bioengineering keep moving the needle between reality and science fiction. From genetic editing with the CRISPR-Cas system and growing functioning organoids in petri dishes to brain cells on…

How does an octopus use its arms? That’s the question a team of researchers set out to investigate. In the process, they discovered something intriguing — octopuses use receptors in…

For a bat to be at the top of its game for echolocation, it needs a good head on its shoulders. Not all bats, though, are the same when it…

Geometric marks carved into Paleolithic tools and figurines were not random decoration. A new computational analysis shows that Ice Age humans used these repeated sequences of dots, lines, and notches…

Sensing our environment is one of the most important skills that define life. Registering temperatures around us is critical to adapting and protecting ourselves from harm, either from scorching heat…

In summer, the fjords of northwest Greenland develop milky swirls where glaciers meet the sea. From above, those cloudy patches look almost like spills of paint. In the water, they…

The ISMPP European Meeting is a specialized annual conference focused on standards of medical publications and scientific communication. It is designed for publication planners, medical writers, and industry leaders from…

Archaeologists often assume that people buried together in ancient graves were close family. But a new DNA study from a 5,500-year-old burial ground on Gotland complicates that picture. By analyzing…

A curved slab of bone pulled from a remote fossil site called Jenguebi, deep in Niger’s central sand sea, revealed something paleontologists had not seen in more than a century:…