Monkey 'queen' led a violent coup to become her troop's first female leader. Now her reign is in jeopardy. By Brandon Specktor published 22 January 22 A young female macaque fought her own mother to seize control of her troop for the first time in 70 years. Now her reign is in jeopardy.
Can nonhuman animals drive other animals to extinction? By Patrick Pester published 22 January 22 Humans have sent many species to extinction, but can other animals do the same?
Ruins of bustling Roman town discovered in UK By Laura Geggel published 22 January 22 Archaeologists in the U.K. discovered the remains of a once bustling Roman market town.
Your eyes may reveal your true biological age By Yasemin Saplakoglu published 21 January 22 By examining a person’s eyes, doctors might one day be able to predict that person's risk of early death, according to a new study.
Will we need more COVID-19 boosters to end the pandemic? By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira published 21 January 22 Will the pandemic ever end? And will we need more boosters to enter the endemic phase of transmission?
World's oldest drinking straws are 3 feet long and made of gold and silver By Laura Geggel published 21 January 22 The reanalysis of slender gold and silver tubes found in a Bronze Age burial suggests that they were drinking straws.
Astronomers propose building a neutrino detector out of the Pacific Ocean By Paul Sutter published 21 January 22 The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment would turn a massive swath of the Pacific Ocean into nature's own neutrino detector.
Antarctica's doomed A68 iceberg dumped 1 trillion tons of water into the ocean over 3 years By Brandon Specktor published 21 January 22 A new study of iceberg A68 (once the world's largest) charts its entire doomed journey, and shows exactly when it started to melt at an alarming rate
Pod of orcas frees a humpback whale from certain death. Was it intentional? By Stephanie Pappas published 21 January 22 A pod of orcas frees an entangled humpback whale off Western Australia. But were they really trying to rescue it?
Patton: The US Army's toughest and most feared WWII general? By Timothy Williamson published 21 January 22 Inside the latest History of War magazine: Why was "Old Blood and Guts" feared by both allies and enemies alike?
Bizarre knotted DNA structures linked to cancer in mice By Nicoletta Lanese published 20 January 22 Missing enzymes may cause troublesome knots to appear in DNA.
On the 'doorstep of doom': Doomsday Clock stands at 100 seconds to midnight By Mindy Weisberger published 20 January 22 The hypothetical clock's hands mark our nearness to annihilation.
Monster black hole spotted 'giving birth' to stars By Ben Turner published 20 January 22 Black holes have been seen doing this before, but never in a galaxy so small.
Spellbinding new 'selfie' video captures penguin feasting on giant sardine ball By Patrick Pester published 20 January 22 A spellbinding new video captures a Gentoo penguin's point of view as it feasts on a giant ball of sardines alongside diving albatross and cormorants.
COVID-19 may trigger diabetes by causing fat cells to go haywire By Nicoletta Lanese published 20 January 22 The coronavirus may cause fat cells to malfunction.
55-sided, 555-carat 'Enigma' black diamond (potentially from space) goes on sale By Harry Baker published 20 January 22 The black diamond known as the "Enigma" will soon be sold at auction, but experts are unsure about the origins of the stunning gem.
Centuries-old 'impossible' math problem cracked using the strange physics of Schrödinger's cat By Stephanie Pappas published 20 January 22 The mathematics problem is a bit like Sudoku on steroids.
40 quintillion stellar-mass black holes are lurking in the universe, new study finds By Ben Turner published 20 January 22 The researchers hope to use the estimate to figure out the mystery of how supermassive black holes came to be.
Double pig kidney transplant successfully performed in brain-dead patient By Nicoletta Lanese published 20 January 22 The experiment was intended to assess the safety of such transplants, prior to them being tested in clinical trials.
Parasitic worm forces tarantulas to tiptoe, then starves them to death By Brandon Specktor published 20 January 22 Scientists discovered a new type of parasitic worm that only infects the mouths of tarantula spiders.
