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How Animals Form Unlikely Alliances to Keep Predators Away

Cross-species "defense pacts" help animals keep tabs on parasites and predators

Earthquake Science and Fiction Collide in Tilt

On our Best Fiction of 2025 list, Emma Pattee imagines Portland's worst Earthquake in her debut novel Tilt

Can NASA Bring Mars Rocks Back to Earth?

NASA's Perseverance rover has gathered groundbreaking Mars samples, but the mission to bring them home is facing serious challenges.

Improved ‘Terminator’ Sun Model Could Change Space Weather Forecasting

An idea about the sun's magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Who Studied, and Protected, Elephants, Dies at 83

JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

Born into an aristocratic British family, he turned his empathy and knowledge of the world’s largest land mammals to the cause of saving them from poachers.

MERS, a Deadly Coronavirus, Resurfaces in France for First Time in 12 Years

French health officials are trying to trace all the contacts of two men who contracted MERS, a potentially lethal disease that is typically confined to the Middle East

NASA Loses Signal from Critical Mars Orbiter

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft didn't phone home as expected on December 6

Ancient Humans Were Making Fire 350,000 Years Earlier Than Scientists Realized

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose has been difficult for scientists to pin down

Scientists Explain How mRNA COVID Vaccines May Rarely Cause Myocarditis

A new study identifies a mechanism for how COVID vaccines may, in infrequent cases, drive heart inflammation, a condition that can be caused by the disease itself

Uterine Fibroids Significantly Raise Risk of Heart Disease

In a new study, women diagnosed with these common growths had a more than 80 percent higher risk of developing heart disease over a 10-year period than their peers did

People Are Using TikTok to Sell Endangered Animals to Eat

TikTok is rapidly growing in Africa and is being used to sell bushmeat, underscoring the role of social media in the global illegal wildlife trade

Beeple’s Art Basel Robot Dogs Satirize Musk, Zuckerberg and Our AI Future

Billionaire-headed machines lampoon tech power and the way our images quietly become fuel for AI