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Fifty years ago, scientists figured out how chocolate and cheese set off the headaches. Now we know hormones, stress and the weather can, too.
5 months ago
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The solar wind and sunspots seem to give lightning a boost. But exactly how solar activity stimulates strikes is an enduring mystery.
5 months ago
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The finding suggests a way for plants to share information about nearby pollinators and communicate when to trigger nectar production.
8 months ago
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Masked bees in Australia and French Polynesia have long-lost relatives in Fiji, suggesting that the bees’ ancestors island hopped.
9 months ago
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Decades of research has confirmed that for such simple creatures, trilobites had astoundingly complex eyes.
10 months ago
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After more than 50 years, metrologists will stop using the leap second to align the time kept by atomic clocks with the rate of Earth’s spin.
10 months ago
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Scientists took a cue from polar bear fur to turn an ultralight insulating material into knittable thread.
10 months ago
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About 10 percent of the fruit in a tilted market display can be removed before it all crashes down, computer simulations show.
11 months ago
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Notable feats include discovering a planet-eating star, extracting RNA from an extinct animal and more.
11 months ago
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 disrupted both local and global science.
almost 2 years ago
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Emily Jacobs studies how the brain changes throughout women’s reproductive years, plus what it all means for health.
about 2 years ago