Science&technology

Clostridioides difficile is a notoriously nasty intestinal bug, with few effective treatments and no approved vaccines. But the same tech ...

Hurricane Helene may have already hammered the Southeast, but its lethal aftermath could last a decade or more.Tropical cyclones, ...

In the brain of a singular fruit fly, nerve cells weave themselves together, enabling flight, mating, eating, sleeping and every other ac ...

A perfect storm of climate, geologic and geographic conditions have combined to make Hurricane Helene one of the most devastating storms ...

Coyotes turn out to have face muscles that look capable of making that big-eyed, sad-puppy face that dogs have used to melt human hearts ...

While SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are enabling internet access and cell phone communications around the globe, they’re also posing a thr ...

Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! The red supergiant that marks Orion’s left shoulder may have a tiny, unseen companion.Two independent stud ...

It’s a bird! It’s a crab! No, it’s a fish that can taste with its legs.Some sea robins, a group of fishes with two winglike fins a ...

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries don’t last forever. Over time, they hold onto less charge, eventually transforming from power sources ...

Night MagicLeigh Ann HenionAlgonquin Books, $30I feel like I’ve been out all night. In my mind, I’ve been walking the moun ...

One of the widest hurricanes on record slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast on September 26 as a powerful Category 4 storm, inundating Flori ...

When scientists discovered the world’s oldest preserved cheese smeared on the necks of ancient mummies in China, it raised a lot of quest ...

In 2013, Ning Zeng came across a very old, and ultimately very important, log.He and his colleagues were digging a trench in the C ...

Body size estimates of some of Earth’s larger-than-life species may have been just that: a little bit too large for real life. Tak ...