Can humans get chronic wasting disease from deer?
Chronic wasting disease has been spreading among deer in the United States, which has raised concerns that the fatal neurological…
Fossil finds amplify Europe’s status as a hotbed of great ape evolution
Two lines of ancient apes, including what may be the smallest great ape yet, lived alongside each other in Europe,…
Geoscientists found the most dangerous part of a famous West Coast fault
The most destructive Cascadian earthquakes are likely to slam offshore of Washington state and Vancouver Island, new data reveal. …
Wildfire smoke may cause tens of thousands of premature deaths
Wildfire season got off to an early start in Northern California with the Corral Fire, which started burning grasslands in…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope could help solve these 5 exoplanet puzzles
Detecting exoplanets used to be so difficult that scientists spotted the first black hole, detected the leftover radiation from the…
This protist unfolds its ‘neck’ up to 30 times its body length to scout prey
Oddly, origami could be useful for snagging prey. A single-celled protist called Lacrymaria olor uses a helix of pleats folded…
Horses may have been domesticated twice. Only one attempt stuck
Horse power may have revved up about four millennia ago. Horses were domesticated at least twice, researchers report June 6…
China’s Chang’e-6 snagged the first samples from the farside of the moon
China has become the first country to collect samples from the farside of the moon, hopefully providing scientists with new…
In 2018, Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted like a stomp rocket
A series of explosions from the Hawaiian volcano Kilauea in 2018 may have been triggered by a never-before-seen style of…
The sun is entering solar maximum. Expect auroras, and more
Beautiful curtains of pink and green light swirled in night skies around the world in May during one of the…
