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

Bizarre dino fossil reveals a lizard swallowed whole

Blinding Nemo: Artificial lights prevent clownfish eggs from hatching

Ploonets are real. Now, we might be able to find them

Sorry gardeners, plants aren’t conscious

Giant cometlike object is not an alien ship, astronomers confirm

Yellow jacket ‘super nests’ are back in Alabama

Cicadas high on fungus drugs won’t stop mating

Could a gut bacterium boost athletic performance?

What happens if you cross a narwhal with a beluga? You get a narluga

Watch this robot fish swim, thanks to artificial blood

New drug for sickle cell shows promise

Baby pterosaurs may have taken to the skies straight after hatching

Is your stress rubbing off on your dog?

These vampire birds have something in common with vampire bats, and it’s not just a taste for blood

Americans eat more than 50,000 tiny pieces of plastic every year

Have physicists found a way to save Schrödinger’s cat?

A drop of stem cells restores mice’s sense of smell

Ancient Egyptians feasted on watermelons, too, according to find in ancient tomb

This bird lost the ability to fly twice on the same island, thousands of years apart

The lost plains of Doggerland emerge from the North Sea

The oceans contain nearly 200,000 kinds of viruses

Gene therapy works for bubble boy disease

Scientists restore some cellular functions in dead pig brains

NASA planet hunter finds its first Earth-size world