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Ancient Arabian cymbals ring up Bronze Age musical connections

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​science news​​​ By Bruce Bower     Ritually important musical practices resounded across Bronze Age cultures from Arabia to South Asia, a pair of unusual discoveries suggest. →

How U.S. public health cuts could raise risks of infectious diseases

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​science news​​​ By Tina Hesman Saey     At 6 a.m. on March 25, Philip Huang, director of the Dallas County Health and Human Services department, got a devastating email. Millions →

Fermenting miso in orbit reveals how space can affect a food’s taste

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​science news​​​ By McKenzie Prillaman Fermenting foods in space could provide a new culinary frontier. When fermented aboard the International Space Station, the Japanese condiment miso tasted →

Physicists have confirmed a new mismatch between matter and antimatter

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​science news​​​ By Emily Conover     There’s a newfound mismatch between matter and antimatter. And that could bring physicists one step closer to understanding how everything in →

Splitting seawater offers a path to sustainable cement production

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​science news​​​ By Carolyn Gramling     A new cement-making process could shift production from being a carbon source to a carbon sink, creating a carbon-negative version of the →

Uncorking the past: new analysis of Troy findings rewrites the story of wine in the early bronze age

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​conversation​​​ by Stephan Blum     Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research has established →

Physicists are mostly unconvinced by Microsoft’s new topological quantum chip

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​science news​​​ By Emily Conover     ANAHEIM, CALIF. — At the world’s largest gathering of physicists, a talk about Microsoft’s claimed new type of quantum computing chip →

Parrots and humans share a brain mechanism for speech

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​science news​​​ By Laura Sanders     When it comes to speech, parrots have the gift of gab. And the way the brains of small parrots known as budgerigars bestow this gift is →

Is that shark ticking? In a first, a shark is recorded making noise

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​science news​​​ By Susan Milius     Sharks may not be the sharp-toothed silent type after all.     The clicking of flattened teeth, discovered by accident, →

The nearest single star to Earth has four small planets

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​science news​​​ By Lisa Grossman     The nearest single star to the sun, Barnard’s star, has a brood of planets all its own. The red dwarf star, about six light-years from Earth, →

Hammerhead sharks’ diets may affect if they roam or stay home

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​science news​​​ By  Melissa Hobson     Great hammerhead sharks are known for their long migrations, but scientists have now discovered that some individuals in the Bahamas →

A hopping robot shows off its squirrel-like skills

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​science news​​​ By  Meghan Rosen     Salto the robot is acting a little squirrelly.     The jumping bot can take a flying leap and land on a narrow pipe →

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