Science

Spotted hyena males do not fight for mates, so how are certain males shut out of the mating game?

Mars and Earth lined up neatly last summer, and three separate space agencies seized their opportunity.

In March 2020, Reshma Jagsi—a radiation oncologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor—wrote an opinion piece predicting female scientists would feel a disproportionate impact from the COVID-19 pandemic. Skeptical journal editors declined to publish it. Since then, though, many commentators have echoed her message. And now the evidence has […]

Prozac might need a new warning label: “Caution: This antidepressant may turn fish into zombies.”

Milestone comes little more than a decade after the country launched its first satellite.

Ocean sounds may help people sleep at night, but marine animals depend on them for survival. Take dolphins, which rely on echolocation to hunt and “clicks” to communicate with their pod. Such species are in trouble, because human-generated ocean noise, or anthrophony, has increased significantly since the Industrial Revolution.

Hope arrived at Mars today, as the optimistically named mission from the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—the first planetary mission from an Arab nation—blazed into orbit to study the martian atmosphere and climate. If all systems check out after the stresses of orbit insertion, UAE, which founded its space agency only […]

Mysteries abound at the most famous archaeological site in the U.K.