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

Dec. 10, 2019
Scientists just found a planet circling a dead star

Dec. 5, 2019
Rising temperatures may be making birds smaller

Dec. 4, 2019
How good are you at reading your cat’s facial expressions?

Dec. 2, 2019
How slow can you go? A blue whale’s heart beats just twice a minute

Nov. 26, 2019
One-third of African tropical plant species could go extinct

Nov. 25, 2019
Hardy lichens don’t actually predate plants

Nov. 20, 2019
Company claims signs of success with CRISPR-edited stem cell transplants for two genetic diseases

Nov. 19, 2019
Dude. Honey bees ‘surf’ on waves they make themselves

Nov. 19, 2019
Apes may have started to walk on two legs millions of years earlier than thought

Nov. 8, 2019
We didn’t start the fire—it was the invasive grasses

Nov. 7, 2019
Universe could loop back on itself, study of ancient light suggests

Nov. 7, 2019
Voyager 2 probes the edge of interstellar space

Nov. 5, 2019
The fastest ant in the world could hit 200 meters per second—if it were as big as a human

Oct. 31, 2019
Study shows testosterone boosts athletic performance in women

Oct. 17, 2019
Many state birds may flee their home states as planet warms

Oct. 10, 2019
Pigs caught on video using tools for the first time

Oct. 7, 2019
What made T. rex’s bite so ferocious?

Sep. 27, 2019
Your tea could contain billions of plastic particles

Sep. 26, 2019
Here’s how much a whale is worth to economists

Sep. 25, 2019
Why did a 420,000-year-old human ancestor collect feathers in Israel?

Sep. 25, 2019
Watch an elusive pangolin slurp up supper—from the world’s first ‘pango-cam’

Sep. 23, 2019
How do fish-cleaning shrimp avoid becoming meals? They do a little dance

Sep. 19, 2019
AI can scramble your face to shield you from recognition programs

Sep. 17, 2019