Category Science

The AMS particle detector on the International Space Station NASA An 11-year-long survey of the particles and antiparticles near our sun is unlocking our solar system’s history – and raising new mysteries about the particles themselves. “It’s like when you…

Walter Myers/Science Photo Library Next to Earth, Mars may be the most-studied world in our solar system, currently home to a fleet of orbiters, landers and rovers. But above the red sands on which the rovers trundle, a strange moon…

February 3, 2025 4 min read Trump Tariffs Spark Fears of Clean Energy Supply Chain Chaos President Trump’s new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China could hit the electric vehicle, solar, battery and wind industries particularly hard By Benjamin Storrow…

Kanzi, one of three captive bonobos whose mental abilities were tested in the study Ape Initiative Bonobos are quick to help a person who doesn’t know what they know, a sign that they can deduce the mental states of others.…

February 3, 2025 3 min read Bonobos Can Tell When a Human Doesn’t Know Something An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction By Jack Tamisiea edited by Gary…

Omega-3 supplements could be a simple way to slow down ageing Evgeniia Siiankovskaia/Getty Images A daily omega-3 supplement seems to slow biological ageing in older people, particularly if combined with vitamin D and exercise. We already knew that omega-3s –…

Rice fields are a major source of methane emissions Thirawatana Phaisalratana/iStockphot​o/Getty Images A new variety of rice created by simple crossbreeding could reduce the crop’s emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, by nearly three-quarters. Rice growing is responsible for…

Sam’s father sat slumped on the leather couch in our clinical interview room, head in his hands. He had just finished telling us the long, painstaking history of his son’s descent into psychosis. Sam (name changed to protect confidentiality), then…

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets now in astronomers’ catalogs, the most intriguing yet might be one confirmed last week, a potentially habitable world of fire and ice twirling around a nearby sunlike star. Dubbed HD 20794 d (because HD…

January 31, 2025 3 min read What Is Journavx, the New Opioid-Free Painkiller from Vertex? The nonaddictive painkiller suzetrigine (Journavx) is as effective for acute pain as a common opioid treatment By Allison Parshall edited by Dean Visser MStudioImages/Getty Images…