Biology Not so picky and coy after all: Female animals also have mating contests. They’re just more subtle than males August 3, 2021 - Updated on October 9, 2023
Animals Most baby turtles in the oceans have plastic in their guts. ‘It’s an evolutionary trap,’ scientists say August 2, 2021 - Updated on March 16, 2023
Biology The oldest animal life on Earth was discovered in Canada: 890 million years old July 31, 2021 - Updated on October 9, 2023
News The International Space Station was briefly knocked out of position by a Russian module July 30, 2021
Biology We might have discovered the oldest animal fossils yet in the Canadian Northwest July 29, 2021
Health Dementia cases estimated to triple worldwide by 2050, as populations and average age increase July 29, 2021
Science Why a coral reef doesn’t have legal rights and other questions we should be asking July 28, 2021
Health A lab experiment shows that we could engineer malaria-carrying mosquitoes to kill themselves off July 28, 2021
News Five new sports you can see at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. What you need to know July 26, 2021 - Updated on May 6, 2023
Science The “most significant contribution AI has made to science”: Google’s AlphaFold will release the structure of every protein known to science July 24, 2021
Health Difficulties hearing speech over noise? That may be an early sign of dementia, new study says July 24, 2021
Animals Some cockatoos started raiding trash bins in Australia. Then, they taught their friends how July 23, 2021
Environment Norway starts work on carbon storage program — says it’s “absolutely necessary” July 23, 2021
Astronomy InSight maps Mars’ composition and chunky core for the first time July 22, 2021 - Updated on October 16, 2023
Animals Archeologists may have figured out why American rabbits were never domesticated July 22, 2021
Animals Bands of chimps attacked and killed gorillas. It’s the first time we’ve witnessed anything like this July 22, 2021 - Updated on July 12, 2023
Biology Sharks have spiral-like intestines that resemble one of Nikola Tesla’s inventions July 22, 2021
Future Self-healing material could one day automatically repair broken phone screens in seconds July 21, 2021
Health What Benjamin Franklin’s battles with a deadly virus that swept Colonial America can teach us about our own struggles with anti-vaxxers July 21, 2021 - Updated on May 6, 2023
Climate 15,000-year-old viruses found in Tibetan glacier ice — and we know nothing about them July 21, 2021
Agriculture Sugar just got a bit CRISPR: precise gene edits can improve sugarcane resilience, reduce its environmental impact July 20, 2021