Alexander Friedmann saw that Einstein’s equations predicted multiple cosmic scenarios, including a Big Bang.

 

 

Caribou merely sickened by parasites eat less vegetation, allowing plants to flourish.

 

 

Science grapples with unknown phenomena all the time. Investigating UAP and whether they're related to aliens shouldn't be different, researchers say.

 

 

For Indo-Pacific bottlenosed dolphins, rubbing against corals and sea sponges that contain antibacterial compounds could help keep skin healthy.

 

 

There is a lot that is unclear about the hepatitis that’s impacting several hundred children worldwide, but parents shouldn’t panic.

 

 

Why reedless wind instruments’ fundamental tones are lower than expected is an 160-year-old mystery. Physicists have now solved it.

 

 

Scientists are debating whether a trail of galaxies reveals the origins of two weird dark matter–free galaxies.

 

 

We intuitively compare large, approximate quantities but cannot grasp such a big, abstract number as a million U.S. COVID-19 deaths.

 

 

A molar adds to suspicions that mysterious hominids called Denisovans inhabited Southeast Asia's tropical forests.

 

 

As a science reporter covering COVID-19, I knew I should mask up at Disney World. Instead, I conformed, bared my face and got COVID-19.

 

 

Where extremely energetic neutrinos originate from is a mystery. A new study supports the idea that “tidal disruption events” are one source.

 

 

Severe habitat fragmentation caused by expanding palm oil plantations may have driven two primate species to mate that wouldn’t have otherwise.

 

 

Planting trees near crops and pumping water with solar power in India is reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.

 

 

The mummified remains contained a substance that may reduce anxiety and is found in ayahuasca, a psychedelic ceremonial liquid still drunk today.

 

 

The magnitude 5 temblor, detected May 4, will help scientists learn more about the Red Planet’s interior.

 

 

A bird’s nest is a special version of a granular material. Lab experiments and computer simulations explain its quirky behavior.

 

 

When brought near flickering flames, prehistoric stone engravings of animals seem to move, experiments with replicas and virtual reality show.

 

 

Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope reveal the turbulent region around our home galaxy’s black hole, Sagittarius A*, in new detail.

 

 

Large earthquakes make speed-of-light adjustments to Earth’s gravitational field. Researchers have now trained computers to detect the signals.

 

 

After coronavirus vaccines, antivirals and a monoclonal antibody are the next line of defense, but the treatments may be hard for some people to find.

 

 

A meat-heavy diet, with its high climate costs, is the norm in the West. So social scientists are working to upend normal.

 

 

Ultrasounds tracking fetal mouth movements in baby marmosets pinpoint the early development of the motor skills needed for vocalization.

 

 

An analysis of nearly 3 million pop songs from 1959 to 2010 shows fame is a dance between similarity and innovation.

 

 

As the young sun’s radiation evaporated gas from its surrounding disk, it triggered a jumbling of the giant planets’ orbits, simulations suggest.

 

 

Researchers have identified what may be the first known case of a mammal mimicking an insect.

 

 

Despite the advice of health experts, most people who cook chicken at home wash it. New research offers ways to reduce spreading dangerous germs.

 

 

Millet, kelp, Bambara groundnut and cassava are resilient, sustainable and nutrient dense — good options for future dinner plates.

 

 

In 1972, calculations from Halley’s comet offered evidence of another planet. Today’s astronomers are still searching for a Planet Nine.

 

 

Plant-based milks are better for the environment, but nutrition-wise they fall behind cow milk.

 

 

Theories for how people think in individualist versus collectivist nations stem from East-West comparisons. Latin America challenges those theories.

 

 

Just a 20 percent substitution could cut deforestation rates and land-use CO2 emissions by more than half by 2050, a new study suggests.

 

 

In lab experiments, sea anemones and coral turned oxybenzone into a toxin activated by light. But helpful algae may provide a layer of protection.

 

 

Of out 10 kinds of dopamine-making nerve cells, only one type is extra vulnerable in Parkinson’s disease.

 

 

How much meat eating affects worldwide greenhouse gas emissions comes clear in new country-by-country analyses.