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…
How air pollution may make it harder for pollinators to find flowers
Air pollution may blunt the signature scents of some night-blooming flowers, jeopardizing pollination. When the aroma of a pale evening…
Forests might serve as enormous neutrino detectors
Neutrino detectors don’t grow on trees. Or do they? Forests could one day be used to spot ultra-high-energy neutrinos, a…
‘Countdown’ takes stock of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile
CountdownSarah ScolesBold Type Books, $30 The United States is on a mission to modernize its aging nuclear weapons stockpile. And…
Did the James Webb telescope ‘break the universe’? Maybe not
Reports that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope broke the universe may have been exaggerated. In its first images, JWST captured…
