Scientists have identified a new species of copepod living in a small limestone cave in Bermuda, a creature collected years before anyone confirmed what it was. Named Tetragoniceps bermudensis, it is the first known cave-dwelling member of its genus anywhere…
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Using advanced laser spectroscopy on extremely rare radioactive material, researchers have uncovered new insights into the structure of heavy atomic nuclei. The nucleus of fermium-255 is far from spherical. Scientists have now determined its shape for the first time, finding…
Schools across the country have long grown dependent on Google, from its eponymous search engine to services like Gmail and Chromebooks, the company’s cheap laptops that have become commonplace in classrooms. But it’s a fraught relationship that’s now seriously being…
The mayor’s comments come after the entertainment giant’s data breach last year, which exposed James Dolan’s surveillance.
A newly identified Arctic Ocean bacterium may have an unusual way of making the building blocks it needs to grow. Using acetone, a common chemical in seawater, the bacteria incorporate carbon dioxide (CO₂) into their metabolisms, allowing them to survive…
High temperatures change how mealybugs feed, and that could help explain why some pasture mealybug infestations do far more damage than others, according to early findings from Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists.
New toxicology tests of Incan mummies found the kids were given not just cocaine, but alcohol and chemicals found in ayahuasca before the ceremony
High in the mountains of northwestern Tibet, an ancient ice cap has preserved something scientists are only beginning to understand. New research suggests that ice buried within it may be more than 128,000 years old, extending the region’s known climate…
Physicists have found evidence of a particle decay so rare that it is expected to occur only around once in every 10 billion “beauty” particles. The result, from the upgraded LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), follows a…
Recent media reports of alleged sexual assaults by teenage boys draw attention to an uncomfortable truth: Young people sometimes perpetrate harmful sexual behavior against their peers.