The southern drawl gets deconstructed
BOSTON — Some aspects of speech are as Southern as peca […]
Slug slime inspires a new type of surgical glue
For a glue that holds up inside the body, turn to the h […]
Neutrinos seen scattering off an atom’s nucleus for the first time
Famously sneaky particles have been caught behaving in […]
Castaway critters rafted to U.S. shores aboard Japan tsunami debris
The 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan’s coast cast an […]
Here’s yet more evidence that the mythical yeti was probably a bear
Campfire legends of massive, shaggy bipeds called yetis […]
Scientists are tracking how the flu moves through a college campus
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Campus life typically challenges st […]
Microplastics are in our bodies. Here’s why we don’t know the health risks
Tiny particles of plastic have been found everywhere — […]
Hints of Oort clouds around other stars may lurk in the universe’s first light
A thick sphere of icy debris known as the Oort cloud sh […]
A new airplane uses charged molecules, not propellers or turbines, to fly
A newly designed airplane prototype does away with nois […]
These are our favorite science books of 2018
From tales about whales to enthralling scientific histo […]