New Species of Flying Reptile Reshuffles Pterosaur Evolution
About 230 million years ago, almost 80 million years before the first bird appeared, their distantly related cousins, the ...
Religious People Aren't More Generous Than Atheists
Believers are no more generous than atheists – at least as long as they don’t know what the recipient believes in. Finding ...
Third Class of Magnetism Could Transform Digital Devices
A new class of magnetism called altermagnetism has been imaged for the first time in a new study. The findings could lead to ...
Minuscule Robots Deliver Targeted Cancer Drugs in Mice
In the future, delivering therapeutic drugs exactly where they are needed within the body could be the task of miniature ...
Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke
A 2011 paper found that Mexican Coke – which is supposed to be sweetened with cane sugar – contained no cane sugar. Instead, ...
Why Mad Cow Disease Mostly Infects Teenagers
When variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, AKA mad cow disease, first emerged, researchers noticed a weird trend in exactly who got sick. Mot patients were diagnosed in their twenties, whic ...
Strange Particle Only Has Mass Moving in One Direction
For the first time, scientists have observed a collection of particles, also known as a quasiparticle, that's massless when ...
Leaded Gas Likely Affected the Mental Health of Millions of Americans
In its various forms, lead has been used in many everyday products for millennia. The Romans even added it to wine as a ...
A Brand New Architecture for Quantum Chips
Researchers at the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) have realized a new design for a ...
Over Half of Calories Consumed at Home Are Ultraprocessed
A new analysis led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that more than half of ...
The Smokiest Cities in America Have Changed
Normally, America’s smokiest cities lie out west. But Canada’s unusually intense 2023 wildfire season smothered American ...
Beware of Flesh-Eating Sand Piranhas at the Beach
Known as sand piranhas, Excirolana chiltoni are tiny crustaceans that nibble at your feet – and draw blood – if you hang out on the wet sand at the beach. They live on the ...