Neil Shubin on Trusted Science in a ‘Deeply Partisan Age’
An eminent fossil hunter takes the reins at the National Academy of Sciences in a turbulent moment for American researchers. NYT > Science More...
Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking
Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias toward wandering in a counterclockwise direction. NYT > Science More...
Bowerbirds Are Stealing Cash, Plastic and Handcuffs for Love
For millions of years, male great bowerbirds have wooed their mates with flowers and seeds. But in today’s urban world, such humble fare may not cut it. NYT > Science More...
NASA Says Goodbye to its Longtime Mars MAVEN Mission
The space agency announced that the MAVEN spacecraft, which has circled Mars for more than a decade, is being decommissioned. NYT > Science More...
The Toll of a ‘Missing Scientists’ Conspiracy Theory on the Families Left Behind
The claim that their loved ones’ deaths and disappearances are linked is almost certainly false — but the loss remains real. NYT > Science More...
The Blue Micromoon Rises in Sunday’s Early Skies
The second full moon of May will look smaller and dimmer than usual. NYT > Science More...
A Hidden Treasure of Rare Snake Specimens
In the foothills of the Ecuadorean Amazon, a 101-year-old farmer and a young scientist turned an amateur collection into a scientific survey of one of the most diverse snake habitats on Earth. NYT > Science More...
Fish Sleep a Lot Like Us. (They Even Nap.)
By tracking eye movements in zebrafish, researchers identified four different types of sleep, analogous to the complex sleep patterns of humans and other animals. NYT > Science More...
A Very Lonely Caterpillar, Possibly the Last of Its Kind, Has Died
The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly hasn’t been seen in the wild since 2022. The caterpillar was the last individual in human care. NYT > Science More...
SpaceX Completes Mostly Successful Starship Rocket Flight
The 12th test flight of SpaceX’s gargantuan rocket launched on Friday evening and ended its journey in the Indian Ocean just over an hour later. NYT > Science More...