A top scientist has proposed a new way to reconcile the two different ways that our clocks keep time. Meet — wait for it — the leap minute.
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These Amphibian Children Have a Taste for (Mom’s) Skin
Caecilians are the first amphibians known to pass on their microbiomes to their offspring.
Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.)
Shedding the concept “completely strikes at our sense of identity and autonomy,” the Stanford biologist and neurologist argues. It might also be liberating.
How Megafires Are Remaking the World
In our Pyrocene age, enormous wildfires aren’t merely damaging ecosystems but transforming them.
Scientists Use CRISPR to Make Chickens More Resistant to Bird Flu
A new study highlights both the promise and the limitations of gene editing, as a highly lethal form of avian influenza continues to spread around the world.
The Big Nobel Prize Winners Were Short and Fast
The awards for physics and chemistry were a reminder that the most important processes in nature unfold on a scale divorced from everyday human affairs.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 3 Quantum Dots Researchers
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov developed and discovered quantum dots, particles whose size governs their properties.
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work on Electrons
Techniques resulting from the work of Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier let scientists capture the motions of subatomic particles moving at impossible speeds.
Lise Meitner, the ‘Atomic Pioneer’ Who Never Won a Nobel Prize
Lise Meitner developed the theory of nuclear fission, the process that enabled the atomic bomb. But her identity — Jewish and a woman — barred her from sharing credit for the discovery, newly translated letters show.
An Invasive Mosquito Threatens Catastrophe in Africa
A malaria-carrying species that thrives in urban areas and resists all insecticides is causing outbreaks in places that have rarely faced the disease.