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How geometry solves architectural problems for bees and wasps

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science news By Darren Incorvaia Honeybees and yellow jackets don’t look much like mathematicians — for one thing, they’re smaller. But collectively, the insects can solve a common architectural →

Many sports supplements have no trace of their key ingredients

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science news By Meghan Rosen Fat incinerator. Metabolism booster. Thermo activator. Some over-the-counter sports supplements advertise ingredients with purported performance-enhancing properties, but →

Some African birds follow nomadic ants to their next meal

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science news By Yao-Hua Law COIMBATORE, India — To better understand Equatorial Guinea’s tropical birds, ornithologists Luke L. Powell and Patricia Rodrigues scan the ground rather than the trees. →

The James Webb telescope may have spotted stars powered by dark matter

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science news By Skyler Ware The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted objects in the early universe that might be a new kind of star — one powered by dark matter. These “dark stars” are still →

NASA’s DART mission lofted a swarm of boulders into space

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science news By Sid Perkins When a probe smashed into a small asteroid last year, the collision did more than change the asteroid’s orbit — it blasted a few dozen hefty boulders into space too. Last →

With a new body mapping technique, mouse innards glow with exquisite detail

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​science news​​​ By Erin Garcia de Jesús A mouse’s entire nervous system lights up in psychedelic hues. Clumps of immune cells attacking tumors give off a ghostly glow. The vessels that make up the →

A rain of electrons causes Mercury’s X-ray auroras

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sciencenews By Elise Cutts Mercury’s auroras are perfectly in character. While temperate Earth gets heavenly light shows over its poles, hellish Mercury gets invisible ribbons of X-ray radiation that →

How Benjamin Franklin fought money counterfeiters

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science news By Joshua Rapp Learn Though perhaps better known for its newspapers and almanacs, Benjamin Franklin’s printing business also churned out paper money to support the colonial economy. Now, →

Ryugu asteroid samples are sprinkled with stardust older than the solar system

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science news By Lisa Grossman Samples of the asteroid Ryugu contain bits of stardust that predate the birth of our solar system. Slivers of Ryugu material, snagged by the Japanese Hayabusa2 →

How Kenya is helping its neighbors develop geothermal energy

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science news By Geoffrey Kamadi The dusty town of Naivasha sits within the Great Rift Valley, where the African continent is being divided into two. About 90 kilometers northwest of Kenya’s capital →

Lauren Schroeder looks beyond natural selection to rethink human evolution

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science news By Anna Gibbs Lauren Schroeder has loved dinosaurs since age 3 and bones since she was 10. In her second year of university, she started studying the early evolution of the Homo genus →

This seagrass is taking over the Chesapeake Bay. That’s good and bad news

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science news By John Carey On the U.S. mid-Atlantic seaboard, efforts to restore the health of the Chesapeake Bay over the last 10 years have faced a mysterious challenge — massive booms and busts of →

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