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During the awe of totality, scientists studied our planet’s reactions

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​science news​​​ By Adam Mann     WILLS POINT, Texas — Splish-splash. The moment the sun went behind the moon, the snapping turtles all simultaneously slipped into the waters of →

How Ötzi the Iceman really got his tattoos

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​science news​​​ By Bruce Bower     An off-beat experiment has poked holes in a popular assumption about Ötzi the Iceman’s tattoos.     Ötzi’s roughly →

A new image reveals magnetic fields around our galaxy’s central black hole

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​science news​​​ By Adam Mann     Astronomers have gotten their best view yet of the magnetic fields around the gargantuan black hole at the center of the Milky Way. →

A teeny device can measure subtle shifts in Earth’s gravitational field

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​science news​​​   By Adam Mann     There’s a new entrant in the competition to develop ever-tinier instruments that can detect changes in our planet’s gravitational field — →

By fluttering its wings, this bird uses body language to tell its mate ‘after you’

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​science news​​​ By  Darren Incorvaia     Be it an arched eyebrow, a shaken head or a raised finger, humans wordlessly communicate complex ideas through gestures every day. →

Dogs know words for their favorite toys

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​science news​​​ By Laura Sanders     Dogs may know more than they let on. Pet dogs’ brains displayed neural signs of surprise when their owners showed them an unexpected toy. The →

Here’s what distorted faces can look like to people with prosopometamorphopsia

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​science news​​​ By Anna Gibbs     Imagine a person’s face. Now imagine that whenever you looked at that face, there was a chance it would appear distorted. That’s what life is →

American bullfrogs may be threatening a rare frog species in Brazil

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science news By  Joshua Rapp Learn     American bullfrog DNA has turned up not far from the only known habitat of Pithecopus rusticus — a small, critically endangered →

Human brains found at archaeological sites are surprisingly well-preserved

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​science news​​​ By Nora Bradford     Early in her research, forensic anthropologist Alexandra Morton-Hayward came across a paper describing a 2,500-year-old brain preserved in a →

The middle-aged brain changes a lot – and it’s key to understanding dementia

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​conversation​​​ by  Sebastian Dohm-Hansen Allard ,  Yvonne Nolan     Our brains change more rapidly at various times of our lives, as though life’s clock was ticking →

50 years ago, superconductors were warming up

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​science news​​​     By Lillian Steenblik Hwang     Superconductors inch upward — Science News , March 16, 1974     Superconductivity, the →

A decades-old mystery has been solved with the help of newfound bee species

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​science news​​​ By Darren Incorvaia     In 1965, renowned bee biologist Charles Michener described a new species of masked bee from “an entirely unexpected region,” the Tuamotu →

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