Over billions of years, the drive to survive, reproduce, and outcompete rivals has pushed plants and animals to incredible extremes. From strange to unbelievable, every wild behavior has deep biological roots.
With insights from researchers who…

Over billions of years, the drive to survive, reproduce, and outcompete rivals has pushed plants and animals to incredible extremes. From strange to unbelievable, every wild behavior has deep biological roots.
With insights from researchers who…

MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of one of the most famous experiments in quantum physics. Their findings demonstrate, with atomic-level precision, the dual yet evasive nature of light. They also happen…

In the grand theater of American politics, space has often served as a symbol of vision, courage, and continuity—an enterprise that transcends partisanship and orbits the better angels of our national ambition. But even this most…

Scientists have mapped the human genome for a quarter century, yet millions of DNA letters are still unresolved. A new study now reports the most complete reference to date, covering those difficult sections.
The international team sequenced 65…

A meteor streaks across the sky during the 2021 Perseid meteor shower.
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Spotting ants around your property is bound to happen from time to time, but seeing an abundance of ants? There might be a colony that’s invited themselves to move in with you. Finding an overwhelming amount of ants in or around certain areas of…

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When a multimillion-dollar extraterrestrial vehicle gets stuck in soft sand or gravel — as did the Mars rover Spirit in 2009 — Earth-based engineers take over like a virtual tow truck, issuing a series of commands that move its wheels or…

Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” is back in cinemas worldwide 50 years after its original release. The specialist Éric Clua talks about the negative image of sharks conveyed by the film and a new strategy for preventing attacks.