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Topic: Science (page 4)

Planet Venus (Getty Images/Baac3nes)

Venus probably never had an ocean: study

Matthew Rozsa
Uranus, and its innermost substantial moon, the fractured Miranda (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Uranus is much weirder than we thought

Matthew Rozsa
Donald J. Trump, with a bandage in his hand, removes his face mask as he arrives to speak to supporters from the Blue Room balcony during an event at the White House on Saturday, Oct 10, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's post-COVID brain drain

Heather Digby Parton
The lidar-equipped helicopter used by GEO1 to map Colombia's Ciudad Perdida (Courtesy of NV5)

Lasers in the sky are rewriting history

Matthew Rozsa
The Andromeda galaxy and an anatomy engraving (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Wanna escape Earth? Too bad space sucks

Levi Stallings
A spectrum is projected onto a human eye (Getty Images/LWA)

Why color may not objectively exist

Carlyn Zwarenstein
DNA double helix among the stars (Getty Images/PASIEKA)

Scientists detect “DNA of the universe”

Matthew Rozsa
Warty Comb jellyfish (Mnemiopsis leidyi) (Getty Images/Oxford Scientific)

Strange consciousness of comb jellies

Matthew Rozsa
Candiru (Vandellia cirrhosa), also known as cañero, toothpick fish, or vampire fish, is a species of parasitic freshwater catfish in the family Trichomycteridae native to the Amazon Basin. (Jorge Garcia/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Nature’s strangest real life vampires

Matthew Rozsa
Man in white Halloween mask with red light (Getty Images)

Why people love to scare themselves

Sarah Kollat - The Conversation
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The climate stakes of the 2024 election

Grist Staff - Grist
A hand holding a smartphone emanating flames. (rob dobi / Getty Images)

Are we misinformed about misinformation?

Sara Talpos - Undark
Students in a robotics class (Getty Images/skynesher)

How to ensure girls stay in STEM

Lesley Martinez-Aviles
A protester is walking towards a wildfire started by a launched tear gas canister during a march as part of a rally against the construction of a giant water reservoir (mega-bassine) in Migne-Auxances, western France, on July 19, 2024. (Jerome Gilles/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Climate despair has never been higher

Matthew Rozsa
Power of the mind. (Kateryna Kovarzh / Getty Images)

Is depression contagious?

Joshua Cohen - Undark
Herring Gull Larus argentatus with three chicks (Getty Images/aseppa)

Why gulls don't deserve the hate

Brianna Grant
Elderly woman pauses by window to smell orange flowers. (Getty Images/Iuliia Burmistrova)

Humans smell faster than we thought

Matthew Rozsa
Spider Crab (Getty Images/George Karbus Photography)

Why the internet is obsessed with crabs

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Long covid activists attend the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing on the "Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health," in Dirksen building on Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Will XEC be this winter’s COVID variant?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Artist's illustration of the exoplanet WASP-107 b based on transit observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as other space- and ground-based telescopes, led by Matthew Murphy of the University of Arizona and a team of researchers around the world. (Rachel Amaro, University of Arizona)

Planet with uneven atmosphere analyzed

Matthew Rozsa
A person looks at Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" during a press preview for Van Gogh's Cypresses at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York on May 15, 2023. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Van Gogh's brilliant fluid dynamics

Matthew Rozsa
A species of semi-aquatic lizard produces a special bubble over its nostrils to breathe underwater. (Lindsey Swierk)

How this lizard learned to "scuba dive"

Matthew Rozsa
Neanderthal Man in front of his cave (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Thorin the Neanderthal's genes analyzed

Matthew Rozsa
Dolphin in aquarium (Getty Images/vdorse)

Gaze and the evolution of empathy

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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