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‘Silent’ cells play a surprising role in how brains work

New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain,...

Bedbugs may have been one of the first urban pests

Common bedbugs experienced a dramatic jump in population size about 13,000 years...

Humans used whale bones to make tools 20,000 years ago

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that...

The first cicada concert was 47 million years ago

A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil from Germany’s Messel Pit could teach us abo...

Readers discuss the biology of sex, plastic in the brai...

It’s a matter of size A January executive order by President Donald Trump design...

Small earthquakes can have a big impact on the movement...

Small and far-off earthquakes can stifle the spread of large motions on some of ...

Flamingos create precise water vortices in a shrimp-hun...

Nashville Zoo flamingos reveal the oddball birds generate many types of vortices...

Trees ‘remember’ times of water abundance and scarcity

Spruce trees that experienced long-term droughts were more resistant to future o...

Aussie cockatoos use their beaks and claws to turn on w...

Parrots living in Sydney have learned how to turn on water fountains for a drink...

Muons’ magnetism matches theory, easing an enduring phy...

A puzzle over muons’ magnetic properties could have broken the standard model. B...

U.S. moms say their mental health is getting worse

A national survey finds that mothers of children ages 0 to 17 years report menta...

A dwarf galaxy just might upend the Milky Way’s predica...

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not ...

Lotions and perfumes affect the air near our skin

The personal care products suppress reactions between skin oils and ozone. It's ...

How luna moths grow extravagant wings

Warm temperatures, not just predator pressure, may favor luna moths’ long bat-fo...

Venus’ tectonics may be actively reshaping its surface

Circular landforms speckling the Venusian surface may be the work of tectonic ac...

Eberechi Eze on his bike as England’s World Cup 2026 pr...

Eze: ‘It was insightful into how you will cope’Tuchel wants to prepare squad for...