Scientists hope to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria by targeting their ‘alarm proteins’

Scientists just found a planet circling a dead star

Rising temperatures are making birds smaller

How good are you at reading your cat’s facial expressions?

How slow can you go? A blue whale’s heart beats just twice a minute

One-third of African tropical plant species could go extinct

Hardy lichens don’t actually predate plants

Company claims signs of success with CRISPR-edited stem cell transplants for two genetic diseases

Dude. Honey bees ‘surf’ on waves they make themselves

Apes may have started to walk on two legs millions of years earlier than thought

We didn’t start the fire—it was the invasive grasses

Universe could loop back on itself, study of ancient light suggests

Voyager 2 probes the edge of interstellar space

The fastest ant in the world could hit 200 meters per second—if it were as big as a human

Study shows testosterone boosts athletic performance in women

Many state birds may flee their home states as planet warms

Pigs caught on video using tools for the first time

What made T. rex’s bite so ferocious?

Your tea could contain billions of plastic particles

Here’s how much a whale is worth to economists

Why did a 420,000-year-old human ancestor collect feathers in Israel?

Watch an elusive pangolin slurp up supper—from the world’s first ‘pango-cam’

How do fish-cleaning shrimp avoid becoming meals? They do a little dance

AI can scramble your face to shield you from recognition programs

Every beach’s sand has its own unique sound ‘signature’

Possible second visitor from another star sighted

New study reveals risks of transgender ‘conversion therapy’

Meet the ‘giant flying murder head,’ a frightening prehistoric flyer

Is the Loch Ness monster just a big eel?

Holes in Tyrannosaurus rex’s skull probably kept its brain cool

White barn owls’ feathers reflect moonlight to stun prey

How to predict the next recession

Lizards poop on the biggest rocks around

Strange microbes found in Earth’s oldest water

New ‘polypill’ could cut heart attack risk by half

Paradoxical conditions for life stumped scientists, until now

Are water bears walking on the moon?

Saber-toothed cats had a surprising diet, fossils reveal

Male black widows have an unusual strategy for finding a female

Loss of ancient gene may have boosted humans’ heart attack risk

Unhatched birds communicate with their siblings

The rise of a deadly superfungus may be tied to global warming

500-year-old ship found intact at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

Radiation-bacteria combo nearly wipes out Asian tiger mosquitoes on two islands

Near-complete HIV genome recovered from 53-year-old tissue

Jupiter-like planet shows signs of moon formation

Cats may no longer be needed for toxoplasmosis research

Artificial intelligence conquers world’s most complex poker game