Science
-
Why Do Cats Hate Water?
September 4, 2024 3 min read Do Cats Really Hate Water? Not all cats are hydrophobic By Meghan Bartels Sabina…
Read More » -
‘Sloth Fever’ Virus Is Spreading. Here’s What You Need to Know about Oropouche
August 28, 2024 4 min read ‘Sloth Fever’ Virus Is Spreading. Here’s What You Need to Know about Oropouche The…
Read More » -
Europe’s JUICE Jupiter Probe Zooms past the Moon in Historic Flyby
August 20, 2024 3 min read Europe’s JUICE Jupiter Probe Zooms past the Moon in Historic Flyby The Jupiter Icy…
Read More » -
Hurricane Prediction Relies on the Tricky Art of Identifying Which Storms Will Grow
August 13, 2024 3 min read Will This Storm Become a Hurricane? Here’s How Meteorologists Tell New techniques are helping…
Read More » -
The U.K.’s Cass Review Badly Fails Trans Children
The U.K.’s Cass Review Badly Fails Trans Children A politicized review into transgender medicine in the National Health Service has…
Read More » -
Dungeons & Dragons Is Shedding ‘Race’ in Gaming. Here’s Why It Matters
Dungeons & Dragons Is Shedding ‘Race’ in Gaming. Here’s Why It Matters The nerd culture powerhouse is rebranding its elves,…
Read More » -
500-Million-Year-Old ‘Alien Fish Taco’ Was among First Creatures with Jaws
500-Million-Year-Old ‘Alien Fish Taco’ Was among First Creatures with Jaws A bizarre fossil of a Cambrian creature that looked like…
Read More » -
How Twisters Brought the Science of Storm Chasing to the Big Screen
If you grew up in the 1990s and have even a cursory interest in tornadoes, you’ve probably seen Twister. The…
Read More » -
The Head of NASA Science Spent a Whole Weekend Building a LEGO Rocket
Early on a recent Monday morning, the head of NASA’s science division shared to social media a triumphant photograph of…
Read More » -
The Riemann Hypothesis, the Biggest Problem in Mathematics, Is a Step Closer to Being Solved
The Riemann hypothesis is the most important open question in number theory—if not all of mathematics. It has occupied experts…
Read More »