Science

Being a punk rocker means being perpetually misunderstood. So perhaps it’s vindication that that some seafloor fossils, once considered just…

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from…

Even hearing the phrase “Huntington’s disease” will make a room suddenly somber. So the joy that accompanied a recent announcement…

Pasteurization completely inactivates the H5N1 bird flu virus in milk — even if viral proteins linger. Drinking properly pasteurized milk…

There was something strange about the turquoise-colored songbird flying around San Antonio in 2023. With its black-and-white tail bands and…

Prey animals can use their colors to hide from predators or dissuade them from attacking. But local conditions determine which…

A roughly 1-million-year-old Chinese hominid skull has long vexed efforts to nail down its evolutionary identity. Fossil comparisons using a…

Chenyang (Leo) Lin grew up in a coastal city in southern China, far from any woods. So, when he went…

In the dog days of summer, popping a tray of water into the freezer to make ice cubes may seem…

More than 2 billion kilometers farther from the sun than Pluto, a frigid world named Makemake sports the most distant…