Photo of the Day #955: Ring-tailed mongoose

The many methods we use to gather data ultimately boil down to either counting or comparing.

Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.

To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.

Releasing sterilized flies can crash a local population of flesh-eating screwworms. But the US currently has limited capacity to produce them.

The USDA this week confirmed the first known infection of the carnivorous fly larva, which feast on the flesh of living mammals, after the United States eradicated the nightmare bugs in the 1960s.

There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s finally evidence for where those came from.

It’s long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case.

The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature or in the lab.

A walk in the cemetery led to Cornell researchers discovering an underground colony of bees with an estimated population of 5.5 million—one of the largest ever recorded.

New simulations reveal that the moons of Uranus may retain traces of giant planets.

The FDA recently approved the cellular rejuvenation therapy ER-100 for human clinical trials. While vision is the first target, it could have applications for a variety of age-related disease.

Quantinuum, a quantum computing startup, is losing millions. Investors want in anyway.