Lab experiments suggest mosquitoes can smell DEET and learn to associate it with food, but it’s unclear whether that happens ...
Self-driving cars promise to transform roadways. There’d be fewer traffic accidents and jams, say proponents, and greater mobility for people who can’t operate a vehicle. The cars could fundamentally ...
The new test may catch active tuberculosis in those with low access to health care or who have trouble making the phlegm ...
When escaping from humans, narwhals don’t just freeze or flee. They do both. β€œThat was astounding to us because there are other marine mammals that can have heart rates that low but not typically for ...
How animals navigate by Earth's magnetic field is hotly debated. New research in pigeons points to iron-laden liver immune ...
An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is ...
The South Pacific blast may have consumed its own methane β€” but using this idea against the greenhouse gas is controversial.
Meteor impacts such as February’s explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia, the most powerful observed in a century, may occur more frequently than thought. An analysis of recorded impacts over the past two ...
Andes hantavirus causes deadly lung failure, but its method of attack differs from other respiratory illnesses. The details ...
Scientists rethink their ideas after experiments. AI agents struggle to learn from evidence and recognize when an idea is ...
The practice of freediving is teaching physiologists how humans stretch their physical and mental limits, which in turn may ...
A global model suggests that climate change could make hailstones larger and more damaging in many regions, especially at mid ...