Science

Not all slime is created equal. A species of land snails tweaks its slime’s chemical recipe to create five different…

Rain may bring disease-carrying mosquitoes. But the lack of it could have been a factor that led to the first…

Necrotizing enterocolitis, a life-threatening inflammation of the intestine that mostly affects premature babies, can strike with almost no warning. But…

In The Sheep Detectives, Mopple has a superpower: The anthropomorphic sheep can’t forget anything. He joins a long line of…

Mammal ancestors may have made the evolutionary leap from egg-laying to live birth at least 90 million years earlier than…

Women are about twice as likely to get Alzheimer’s disease as men. But women who take estrogen as hormone therapy…

A plastic vest could help protect astronauts from solar radiation storms. Researchers tested the vests aboard Artemis I, an uncrewed…

It’s not just you. Frogs also get overwhelmed when confronted with too many options — and sometimes, they make bad…

The blue ribbon for largest known galaxy goes to a behemoth that probably grew by cannibalizing its smaller neighbors. Known…

We are flush with toilet paper options. I’m looking to minimize the environmental impact of every wipe, and it’s overwhelming.…