Bird study links spatial thinking with not getting eaten
Shows that birds tend to get killed at the edge of territory they know well.
Science // Science & Exploration
This mutant Venus flytrap mysteriously lost its ability to “count”
The mutant can no longer decode calcium signature that causes trap to shut quickly.
Requiem for a string: Charting the rise and fall of a theory of everything
String theory was supposed to explain all of physics. What went wrong?
Rocket Report: NASA validates new engine design; Chinese firm tests mini Starship
"It's time for us to start launching them right here at home."
Antibiotic resistance induced by the widespread use of… antidepressants?
Bacteria evolve drug resistance more readily when antidepressants are around.
Airlines and cattle ranchers have beef with Google’s climate math
Businesses with sales at stake are pushing back on Google's emissions estimates.
By learning to hunt otters, wolves decimate a deer population
On an Alaskan island, wolves adapted to hunt an unexpected aquatic prey.
Gun stockpile in hospital closet leads to $63K in fines from NJ health dept.
It remains unclear what the hospital's marketing director was doing with the guns.
Oldest DNA yet sequenced shows mastodons once roamed a warmer Greenland
DNA left behind during a warm period is viable 2 million years later.
Strep A is soaring in UK after pandemic lull; invasive infections kill 8
Rise seen as another aftereffect of the pandemic disrupting disease transmission.
Mixing diesel and hydrogen provides big cuts in emissions
Existing engine designs can be modified to allow hydrogen injection.
Fifty years later, remastered images reveal Apollo 17 in stunning clarity
"Come toward me, baby! Looks like it’s moving... Don’t run over me!"
Marsquakes, recent volcanism suggest Mars still has a mantle plume
Elysium Planitia may be best explained by the same process that powers Yellowstone.
New find suggests ankylosaurs’ tail clubs were for bashing each other
The evolution of this weapon may have had little to do with threats from predators.
Someone paid $95,000 for this pair of jeans recovered from 1857 shipwreck
Work pants were recovered from wreck of the SS Central America, which sank in 1857.
