Technology
How Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis
Do fruit flies remember their larval lives? To find out, scientists made the neurons inside larvae glow, then tracked how they reshuffled...
Sweat Is Helping You Survive Climate Change
It's gross. It’s sticky. Here’s the science of how it has already saved your life.
New York Needs to Get Spongier—or Get Used to More Floods
Devastating deluges around the world point to the metropolis of tomorrow: the “sponge city.” Think more parks and fewer parking lots.
New York City Is Drowning
Heavy rainfall led to dangerous flash flooding in New York City and surrounding areas this morning.
Which Spider-Man Is Stronger: Tobey Maguire or Tom Holland?
To figure it out, you’ll need two similar feats of superhero strength and a little bit of physics.
A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations
Trees make clouds by releasing small quantities of vapors called “sesquiterpenes.” Scientists are learning more—and it’s making climate...
An Epic Fight Over What Really Killed the Dinosaurs
A deep learning model has joined a vigorous debate over whether volcanoes began dinosaur doomsday well before the asteroid hit.
DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It's a Privacy...
Police are hosting events to collect DNA samples that can help solve missing persons cases. But when people put their DNA in a commercial...
Scientists Have an Audacious Plan to Map the Ancient World...
Buried civilizations could soon become inaccessible forever. Archaeologists have to move fast, so they’re turning to the latest ground-scanning...
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The Mysterious ‘Warming Hole’ in the Middle of the US
The world is rapidly heating. So why has the central US been weirdly cool compared to the rest of the country?
