In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day next week, Lost Women of Science is telling the story of Margarethe Hilferding, a pioneering psychoanalyst and physician from Vienna who was murdered in a Nazi concentration camp in 1942. She was the…
The orchid Stigmatodactylus sikokianus thrives in cool, dark forests IKEDA Tetsuro A species of fungus-eating orchid has an ingenious self-pollinating method. The secret lies in the orchid’s mysterious finger-like appendage. “I knew there had to be more to it than…
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Severance, which imagines a world where a person’s work and personal lives are surgically separated, will soon return to Apple TV+ for a…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at the White House in Washington DC on 21 January 2025 AARON SCHWARTZ/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock This week, OpenAI and other tech companies joined US president Donald Trump at the White House to pledge a private investment of…
January 23, 2025 3 min read The Latest on Bird Flu in Humans, Cats and Chickens H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread amid commercial and backyard poultry, and additional cases have been reported in domestic cats By Meghan Bartels edited…
In the Pleistocene Epoch, South America was home to now-extinct animals, including the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon, the giant ground sloth Megatherium and the llama-like Macrauchenia MAURICIO ANTON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Molecular dating has shown that several extinct creatures, such as giant…
January 23, 2025 5 min read My Climate Protest Arrest Shows the Problem with ‘Social Tipping Point’ Theory People hoping that progress on climate action will accelerate like sudden changes in our physical world must prepare for a long, hard…
Life would have been particularly hot and dry if dinosaurs really did emerge near the equator Mark Witton/The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London Dinosaurs may have first evolved close to the equator, not in the far south of…
On New Year’s Day about 15 years ago, we spent hours looking for our cat. The fireworks had frightened the poor animal so much that it had hidden somewhere. We searched all its favorite places without success. The feline seemed…
Manganese nodules on the sea floor may be a source of oxygen Science History Images/Alamy Marine scientists who made headlines last year with their discovery that deep sea nodules could be producing “dark oxygen” are embarking on a three-year research…
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