Titan’s dark dunes could be made from comets
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — The dark dunes of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, could have fallen from space. More than enough…
Don’t use unsterilized tap water to rinse your sinuses. It may carry brain-eating amoebas
Nasal rinses can relieve sinus congestion. But using the wrong liquid can, in rare cases, give people infections with deadly…
Male dragonflies’ wax coats might protect them against a warming climate
Some male dragonflies have a waxy coat that keeps them cool while pursuing mates and may also help the insects…
Male mammals aren’t always bigger than females
The idea that male mammals tend to be larger than females has been scientific dogma since Darwin. Bigger bodies, the…
The U.S. now has a drug for severe frostbite. How does it work?
In the worst cases, frostbite can cause the tissues in fingers, toes, noses and other extremities to die and require…
A decades-old mystery has been solved with the help of newfound bee species
In 1965, renowned bee biologist Charles Michener described a new species of masked bee from “an entirely unexpected region,” the…
Four years on, the COVID-19 pandemic has a long tail of grief
March 11 marks the fourth anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration that the COVID-19 outbreak was a pandemic. COVID-19…
Big monarch caterpillars don’t avoid toxic milkweed goo. They binge on it
Maybe science has misunderstood the dining style of big monarch butterfly caterpillars. What insect watchers have called defense against the…
‘Space: The Longest Goodbye’ explores astronauts’ mental health
NASA engineers must quantify everything. But no matter how many equations they use to calculate launch windows, estimate exposure to…
This is the first egg-laying amphibian found to feed its babies ‘milk’
In the middle of the night in a humid coastal rainforest, a litter of pink, hairless babies snuggle with their…
