Astronomy
The New Story of the Milky Way’s Surprisingly Turbulent Past
The latest star maps are rewriting the story of our Milky Way, revealing a much more tumultuous history than astronomers suspected
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Planetary Science
A Quantum Clock That Is Ticking Down, the Turbulent Milky Way and Dinosaur Lives
Why did matter outlast antimatter? And clumps of cells can learn and remember
Genetics
Meet ReTro, the First Cloned Rhesus Monkey to Reach Adulthood
A method that provides cloned embryos with a healthy placenta has led to the first cloned rhesus monkey that has survived to adulthood and could pave the way for more research involving the primates...
Animals
Cute Little Tardigrades Are Basically Indestructible, and Scientists Just Figured Out One Reason Why
Tardigrades are microscopic animals that can survive a host of conditions that are too extreme to ever occur on Earth—and scientists want to learn their secrets
Psychology
Children Anticipate What Others Want, But Great Apes Don’t
New cross-species research suggests a theory of mind is one thing that sets humans apart from apes
Climate Change
Volcano That Blasted Seawater into the Stratosphere May Have Damaged Ozone Layer
The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai volcano erupted in January 2022 with the force of an atomic weapon. The disaster has launched dozens of new studies about global warming
Artificial Intelligence
AI Matches the Abilities of the Best Math Olympians
Until now computers have failed to solve mathematical problems. But the AI program AlphaGeometry has succeeded in finding proofs for dozens of theorems from the International Mathematical Olympiad...
Biochemistry
From Stupor to Sober with One (Hormone) Shot
Injection of a hormone called FGF21 rapidly revives intoxicated mice.
Astrophysics
Bizarre Dark Object Could Be First-Known ‘Empty’ Galaxy from the Early Universe
A serendipitously discovered object nearly as massive as the Milky Way appears to be made of primordial gas that has formed almost no stars
Animals
The Oldest Fossilized Reptile Skin Ever Found Predates the Dinosaurs
Permian period petroleum helped to preserve minute scraps of pebbly hide that probably belonged to a lizardlike creature
