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The Shape of WonderAlan Lightman and Martin ReesPantheon, $28 One of my closest friends is a neuroscientist, investigating how brain…

The Haenyeo women who dive deep into the East China Sea to harvest sea urchins and shellfish spend the most…

This seabird poops on the fly. Streaked shearwaters, oceanic birds that spend much of their time out on the open…

Starting at least 2.6 million years ago, East African toolmakers became tech-savvy road warriors. Those hominids, perhaps early members of…

Will Nediger, a crossword constructor and Ph.D. in linguistics, edited this puzzle. Looking for answers? Go to sciencenews.org/puzzle-answers. We’d love…

Vomiting up a droplet of sugar might not seem like the most romantic gesture from a potential suitor. But for…

A glacial outburst has sent floodwaters rushing through the town of Juneau, Alaska, forcing residents to evacuate parts of the…

The knotted, intricately braided string was like no other anthropologist Sabine Hyland had ever seen. Called a khipu, such devices…

Toastier fall weather might cause migrating monarch butterflies to wing it and change their flight plans, starting the countdown toward…

Patients with certain types of cancers who consume sucralose, found in the artificial sweetener Splenda, respond worse to immunotherapy compared…