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Tapeworms are brainless, spineless, gutless parasites – and this scientist...
Janine Caira’s lifelong passion began on a beach in Baja California. She was in her 20s, studying for her parasitology PhD at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, when a friend who worked as a guard...
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Some birds are so stressed by noise pollution it looks like they have PTSD
The bluebird didn’t realize what she was getting herself into when she chose her new home, about 75 yards from a natural gas compressor. It was only as the days and weeks wore on that the low whine of...
View ArticleThis NASA spacecraft will get closer to the sun than anything ever before
Shortly after NASA was established in 1958, the nation’s top scientists compiled a list of missions they thought the brand-new space agency should pursue. The proposals were heady, considering at that...
View ArticleA potentially powerful new antibiotic is discovered in dirt
The modern medical era began when an absent-minded British scientist named Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to find that one of the petri dishes he forgot to put away was covered in a...
View ArticleScientists finally find the 240-million-year-old “mother of all lizards”
Here’s a fact you should know about the world in which you live: It’s home to more kinds of scaly reptiles than all the mammal families combined. The reptile order Squamata, which includes snakes,...
View ArticleNASA’s Parker Solar Probe launches on a mission to study the sun
It was dark on Earth when NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched on its journey to endless day. The first spacecraft designed to swoop by a star took flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 3:31 EDT Sunday...
View ArticleSaturn’s rings are halfway to their death
If dinosaurs had possessed telescopes and the will to gaze skyward 100 million years ago, they might have seen a very different Saturn – one without its iconic rings. And if humans manage to survive...
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The smallest and farthest worlds ever explored by NASA are really, really weird
HOUSTON — In recent months, NASA has explored the smallest object ever orbited and the most distant body ever encountered — and found that both worlds are weirder than anyone could have imagined....
View ArticleBlack holes may finally be ready for their close-up
At precisely 13:00 Universal Time on Wednesday – 9 a.m. in the Eastern United States – scientists will hold simultaneous news conferences in Washington, D.C., Belgium, Denmark, Chile, Japan, China and...
View ArticleMillions of youth worldwide strike for climate action
NEW YORK – In one of the largest youth-led demonstrations in history, millions of people from Manhattan to Mumbai took to the streets around the globe on Friday, their chants, speeches and homemade...
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