Nearly half a million U.S. children missed out on lead tests in early 2020
Close to a half million U.S. children didn’t get tested for lead in the first half of 2020. Nearly 10,000 of those children may...
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A new chameleon species may be the world’s tiniest reptile
Hidden beneath the leaf litter of a northern Malagasy forest lives a chameleon so slight that it could tumble off the tip of your...
Famous brain sketches come to life again as embroideries
In the late 1800s, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a Spanish brain scientist, spent long hours in his attic drawing elaborate cells. His careful, solitary...
An upwelling of rock beneath the Atlantic may drive continents apart
An upsurge of hot rock from deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean may be driving the continents on either side apart. The Americas are moving...
How a tiny spider uses silk to lift prey 50 times its own weight
A family of spiders can catch prey many times their own weight by hitching silk lines to their quarry and hoisting the meaty prize...
An ancient Egyptian mummy was wrapped in an unusual mud shell
An unusual mud-wrapped mummy is leading archaeologists to rethink how nonroyal Egyptians preserved their dead. CT scans of an Egyptian mummy from around 1,200...
Einstein’s theory of general relativity unveiled a dynamic and bizarre cosmos
Albert Einstein’s mind reinvented space and time, foretelling a universe so bizarre and grand that it has challenged the limits of human imagination. An...
Top 10 science anniversaries to celebrate in 2021
Centuries from now, 2021 will be celebrated as an anniversary year most noted for getting rid of 2020. It will be less remembered as...
The Milky Way’s newfound high-energy glow hints at the secrets of cosmic rays
The Milky Way glows with a gamma ray haze, with energies vastly exceeding anything physicists can produce on Earth, according to a new paper....
This ancient sea reptile had a slicing bite like no other
Shortly before a mass extinction ended the Age of Dinosaurs, a reptilian, barracuda-like carnivore with a mouth like a box cutter patrolled the warm...
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