Category Science

This Block-Stacking Math Problem Has a Preposterous Solution You Need to See to Believe In principle, this impossible math allows for a glue-free bridge of stacked blocks that can stretch across the Grand Canyon—and into infinity By Jack Murtagh edited…

Kitty couldn’t have digested looking-glass milk. Worse, if it had contained any bacteria with the opposite handedness, her immune system and antibiotics would have been ill suited to put up a fight. A group of prominent scientists recently cautioned against…

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr Tasos Katopodis/Getty One of the top vaccine experts at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, resigned on 4 June – a week after Robert…

New Contacts Let You See Infrared Light—Even with Your Eyes Closed Straight out of science fiction, these contact lenses convert infrared light into visible light that humans can see By Elizabeth Gibney & Nature magazine People who tested a new…

“How we end up with similar circuitry was more flexible than I would have expected,” Zaremba said. “You can build the same circuits from different cell types.” Zaremba and her team also found that in the bird pallium, neurons that…

Have you ever comforted a friend who was upset? It turns out our closest ape relatives do exactly the same thing – and in ways that challenge what scientists have believed for decades. A groundbreaking new study published in the…

Protestors gathered in March outside the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Trump administration aims to cut funding for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) by more than $1.6 billion relative to…

Protestors gathered in March outside the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Trump administration aims to cut funding for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) by more than $1.6 billion relative to…

COVID Research Funding to Be Slashed, NIH Documents Show Studies on COVID, climate change and South Africa are on the latest list of terminated grants by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, according to updated documents obtained by Nature By…

Capuchins can use stone tools to access food Roland Seitre/NaturePL Critically endangered golden-bellied capuchins (Sapajus xanthosternos) are more widespread than researchers previously thought, and stone tools might be the secret to their success. Although golden-bellied capuchins are usually found in…