The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why

First Evidence of a Planet in Another Galaxy

The Many Kinds of Dishonesty: In a new study where people could earn money if they reported rolling certain numbers on a die, only 40 percent of people were fully honest about what they rolled

A Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down (2012)

Statisticians Warn That AI Is Still Not Ready To Diagnose COVID-19

If Planet Nine Is a Tiny Black Hole, This Is How to Find It

Why Artificial Brains Need Sleep

What You'll Need to Know in 2020 That You Don't Know Now (2000)

Store-bought tomatoes taste bland, and scientists have discovered a gene that gives tomatoes their flavor is actually missing in about 93 percent of modern, domesticated varieties

A new genetic analysis hints that early European hunter-gatherers may have taught themselves to farm, and the idea wasn't introduced from the "Fertile Crescent" region of the Middle East…

Scientists found a caterpillar that thrives when eating plastic

Feeding Seaweed to Cows Could Curb Their Methane-Laden Burps

Thirdhand smoke—where toxic chemicals off-gas from a smoker's clothes—may be more hazardous than previously thought

Quantum Honeybees (1997)

A new species of tiny tyrannosaur has been discovered in Utah

A mysterious extinct "ghost" human lineage that was an even more distant relation than Neanderthals may have interbred with the ancestors of modern West Africans…

A new study found wolf pups will pick up and retrieve balls thrown by humans with whom they are unfamiliar — indicating a willingness to play with people, a trait that could be older than domestic dogs themselves.

Excess tongue fat could be causing many cases of sleep apnea

There's a universal genetic signature for monogamy in species as diverse as fish and birds, scientists have found

Average human body temperatures today are lower than they were two centuries ago

Scientists have found "supercorals" in Hawaii’s Kāne’ohe Bay, where a reef is thriving despite development, dredging, sewage and high temperatures

Scientists are close to engineering a spicy tomato, after discovering the red fruit - a close relative of the pepper - still carries an inactive gene to produce capsaicin…

Scientists are close to engineering a spicy tomato, after discovering the red fruit - a close relative of the pepper - still carries an inactive gene to produce capsaicin…

As the Himalayas melt, thousands of dangerous floods may sweep through the mountain range

Astronomers Just Mapped a Pulsar's Surface for the First Time.

Chimps respond to music in ways similar to people, a new study finds

Smaller than a sparrow, a 99-million-year-old bird preserved in a piece of Burmese amber has traits not seen in any other bird, living or extinct

Stanford researchers studying MDMA say they’ve identified separate brain pathways that activate addiction and social behavior

Elephants Rarely Get Cancer, Now We Know Why (2015)

Scientists just recorded a blue whale's heart beat for the first time, according to a new study

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