These baby greater sac-winged bats babble to learn their mating songs
At least 65 million years of evolution separate humans and greater sac-winged bats, but these two mammals share a key feature of learning how...
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How coronavirus vaccines still help people who already had COVID-19
Some people who have been infected with coronavirus have questioned whether they really need vaccines. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
See some of the most intriguing photos from NASA’s Perseverance rover so far
In February, NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars and went to work. The rover has seen the first flight of a Martian robot,...
With a powerful laser blast, scientists near a nuclear fusion milestone
With a powerful laser zap, scientists have blasted toward a milestone for nuclear fusion. A fusion experiment at the world’s biggest laser facility released...
Haiti’s citizen seismologists helped track its devastating quake in real time
On August 14, a powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti, triggering landslides, toppling buildings and killing at least 1,900 people, with over 9,000 people...
How extreme heat from climate change distorts human behavior
On a sweltering summer afternoon almost a decade ago, Meenu Tewari was visiting a weaving company in Surat in western India. Tewari, an urban...
A well-known wildflower turns out to be a secret carnivore
Gleaming, gluey, deathtrap hairs have betrayed the secret identity of a well-known wildflower: It’s a carnivore. A species of false asphodel (Triantha occidentalis)uses enzyme-secreting...
New studies hint that the coronavirus may be evolving to become more airborne
Small aerosol particles spewed while people breathe, talk and sing may contain more coronavirus than larger moisture droplets do. And the coronavirus may be...
Sunbirds’ dazzling feathers are hot, in both senses of the word
The birds’ flashy, iridescent feathers heat up more than other types of feathers, possibly making it harder to stay cool in hot, sunny conditions. If...
Vera Rubin’s work on dark matter led to a paradigm shift in cosmology
Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and BeyondAshley Jean YeagerMIT Press, $24.95 Vera Rubin’s research forced cosmologists to radically reimagine the cosmos. In the 1960s and...
Scientists may have seen dark matter. If they did, what exactly is it? 
One day behind bars: Students and incarcerated women break prison stigma in Thailand 
Sudan: Driver killed in aerial attack on aid trucks in South Kordofan 
UN upholds housing as a human right on World Habitat Day