Almost every animal in the rainforest enjoys snacking on water anoles, but slippery skin and an ability to carry an air bubble underwater help them survive.

New York Times

29.08.2024

Our Bigger Brains Came With a Downside: Faster Aging - The New York Times

A study comparing chimpanzee and human brains suggests that the regions that grew the most during human evolution are the most susceptible to aging.

New York Times

22.08.2024

How Did the First Cells Arise? With a Little Rain, Study Finds. - The New York Times

Researchers stumbled upon an ingredient that can stabilize droplets of genetic material: water.

New York Times

14.08.2024

I Am the Walrus but This Fossil Was Not - The New York Times

Although an extinct animal was from a different group of marine mammals, an examination of fossils showed it evolved a way of eating that was very similar to that of modern walruses.

New York Times

11.08.2024

Book Review: ‘Keeping the Faith,’ by Brenda Wineapple - The New York Times

In “Keeping the Faith,” Brenda Wineapple finds an ongoing battle over the soul of America in a century-old trial.

New York Times

24.07.2024

Secrets Emerge From a Fossil’s Taco Shell-Like Cover - The New York Times

An examination of an aquatic, shrimplike creature that lived half a billion years ago offers insight into how arthropods with mandibles became so common.

New York Times

12.07.2024

Early Humans Left Africa Much Earlier Than Previously Thought - The New York Times

Scientists have found evidence of several waves of migration by looking at the genetic signatures of human interbreeding with Neanderthals.

New York Times

04.07.2024

Bigheaded Salamander-like Fossil Turns Up in a Place No One Expected it - The New York Times

An ancient aquatic predator resembling a giant salamander turned up in an African fossil deposit, suggesting unwritten chapters of how animals moved onto land.

New York Times

21.06.2024

How Flounder Wound Up With an Epic Side-Eye - The New York Times

Flatfish offer an evolutionary puzzle: How did one eye gradually migrate to the other side?

New York Times

09.06.2024

Book Review: ‘Origin Story,’ by Howard Markel - The New York Times

In a new book, the medical historian Howard Markel homes in on Darwin’s physical and emotional travails — and the colleagues who rallied to his cause.

New York Times

01.06.2024

Parasitismo sexual: así conquistaron los peces anzuelo el fondo marino - The New York Times

Un nuevo estudio sugiere que los peces anzuelo y los rape se aprovecharon de una extraña estrategia sexual para garantizar su reproducción.

New York Times

30.05.2024

Unconventional Sex Let Anglerfish Conquer the Deep Ocean - The New York Times

During a chaotic period some 50 million years ago, the strange deep-sea creatures left the ocean bottom and thrived by clamping onto their mates.

New York Times

25.05.2024

El misterioso origen de los baobabs - The New York Times

Una nueva investigación demuestra que los “árboles al revés” se originaron en Madagascar y luego se dejaron llevar por las corrientes oceánicas hasta llegar a África continental y Australia.

New York Times

21.05.2024

How the Cockroach Took Over the World - The New York Times

A genetic analysis of the German cockroach explained its rise in southern Asia millenniums ago, and how it eventually turned up in your kitchen.

New York Times

16.05.2024

Baobab Trees Had a Strange Evolutionary Journey - The New York Times

New research shows the “upside-down trees” originated in Madagascar and then caught a ride on ocean currents to reach mainland Africa and Australia.

New York Times

11.05.2024

A New Evolutionary Tree of Flowers? For Spring? Groundbreaking. - The New York Times

By sequencing an enormous amount of data, a group of hundreds of researchers has gained new insights into how flowers evolved on Earth.

New York Times

03.05.2024

Cicada Maps 2024: Where Two Broods Are Emerging - The New York Times

Brood XIII and Brood XIX are making their first dual appearance since 1803.

New York Times

20.04.2024

Like Moths to a Flame? We May Need a New Phrase. - The New York Times

Over time researchers have found fewer of the insects turning up in light traps, suggesting they may be less attracted to some kinds of light than they once were.

New York Times

20.04.2024

Daniel C. Dennett, Widely Read and Fiercely Debated Philosopher, 82, Dies - The New York Times

Espousing his ideas in best sellers, he insisted that religion was an illusion, free will was a fantasy and evolution could only be explained by natural selection.

New York Times

14.04.2024

Should We Change Species to Save Them? - The New York Times

When traditional conservation fails, science is using “assisted evolution” to give vulnerable wildlife a chance.

New York Times

08.04.2024

Book Review: ‘Every Living Thing,’ by Jason Roberts - The New York Times

Jason Roberts tells the story of the scholars who tried to taxonomize the world.

New York Times

26.03.2024

What Birds’ Dreams Can Tell Us About Our Own - The New York Times

What new research on the avian brain and REM sleep in birds might reveal about our own dream lives.

New York Times

23.03.2024

What’s Next for the Coronavirus? - The New York Times

Scientists studying the virus’s continuing evolution, and the body’s immune responses, hope to head off a resurgence and to better understand long Covid.

New York Times

23.03.2024

¿Cuál es la siguiente fase del coronavirus? - The New York Times

Los científicos que estudian la evolución continua del virus y las respuestas inmunitarias del organismo esperan evitar un rebrote y comprender mejor la covid prolongada.

New York Times

19.03.2024

Opinion | What Makes a Coincidence Meaningful? - The New York Times

The human tendency to see patterns everywhere is both fruitful and dangerous.

New York Times

13.03.2024

¿Quiénes fueron los denisovanos? - The New York Times

El ADN ha demostrado que esos humanos ya extintos se extendieron por todo el mundo, desde la fría Siberia hasta el Tíbet, a una gran altitud, quizá incluso en las islas del Pacífico.

New York Times

13.03.2024

For Some Mammals, Large Adult Daughters, Not Sons, Are the Norm - The New York Times

Despite a common narrative that male mammals tend to dwarf female ones, fewer than half of mammalian species display that pattern, a new study suggests.

New York Times

03.03.2024

On the Trail of the Denisovans - The New York Times

DNA has shown that the extinct humans thrived around the world, from chilly Siberia to high-altitude Tibet — perhaps even in the Pacific islands.

New York Times

02.03.2024

Daddy Longlegs Have Been Hiding Extra Eyes From Us - The New York Times

The arachnids, which are not spiders, were thought to have only two eyes, compared with many more on spiders.

New York Times

16.02.2024

De dinosaurios a colibríes: un nuevo debate sobre la evolución de las aves - The New York Times

Por años los paleontólogos han sostenido que el asteroide que acabó con los dinosaurios impulsó la evolución de las aves. Un reciente estudio genético cuestiona esa teoría.

New York Times

13.02.2024

An Asteroid Wiped Out Dinosaurs. Did It Help Birds Flourish? - The New York Times

Today’s birds began their evolution into more than 10,000 species long before the fateful collision, a new genetic study found.

New York Times

03.02.2024

A Fossilized Tree That Dr. Seuss Might Have Dreamed Up - The New York Times

The toilet brushlike specimen from a Canadian quarry hints at the evolutionary experiments that occurred during a 15-million-year gap in the fossil record.

New York Times

26.01.2024

Scientists Use Robotic Dinosaur to Study Evolution of Wings - The New York Times

Scientists built a working model of an early winged dinosaur to test a hypothesis about how the appendages evolved.

New York Times

17.01.2024

The Ancient Back Story of the Slimiest Animal in the Sea - The New York Times

Researchers found that the slime eel, or hagfish, known for deluging predators with mucus, tripled the size of its genome hundreds of millions of years ago.

New York Times

29.12.2023

Opinion | Things I Thought Made Sense Just Don’t Anymore - The New York Times

Most days I feel as if I woke up from a nap I didn’t mean to take into a world I don’t quite recognize.

New York Times

09.12.2023

Genes That Boost Fertility Also Shorten Our Life, Study Suggests - The New York Times

A study of DNA from half a million volunteers supports an old evolutionary theory about why our bodies eventually wear out.

New York Times

22.11.2023

Not All Heroes Wear Capes, but These Termites Did for Science - The New York Times

This study has everything: jumping spiders; insects donning striped and solid patterns; and evolutionary lessons about predators and prey.

home›New York Times›Science

New York Times - Science

The Early Bird Got the Cicada, Then an Evolutionary Air War Started - The New York Times

Should All Middle Schools Teach Algebra? - The New York Times

This Fish Evolved Legs That It Uses to Taste Stuff on the Seafloor - The New York Times

Tiny, Tasty Lizards Scuba-Dive for Their Survival - The New York Times

Our Bigger Brains Came With a Downside: Faster Aging - The New York Times

How Did the First Cells Arise? With a Little Rain, Study Finds. - The New York Times

I Am the Walrus but This Fossil Was Not - The New York Times

Book Review: ‘Keeping the Faith,’ by Brenda Wineapple - The New York Times

Secrets Emerge From a Fossil’s Taco Shell-Like Cover - The New York Times

Early Humans Left Africa Much Earlier Than Previously Thought - The New York Times

Bigheaded Salamander-like Fossil Turns Up in a Place No One Expected it - The New York Times

How Flounder Wound Up With an Epic Side-Eye - The New York Times

Book Review: ‘Origin Story,’ by Howard Markel - The New York Times

Parasitismo sexual: así conquistaron los peces anzuelo el fondo marino - The New York Times

Unconventional Sex Let Anglerfish Conquer the Deep Ocean - The New York Times

El misterioso origen de los baobabs - The New York Times

How the Cockroach Took Over the World - The New York Times

Baobab Trees Had a Strange Evolutionary Journey - The New York Times

A New Evolutionary Tree of Flowers? For Spring? Groundbreaking. - The New York Times

Cicada Maps 2024: Where Two Broods Are Emerging - The New York Times

Like Moths to a Flame? We May Need a New Phrase. - The New York Times

Daniel C. Dennett, Widely Read and Fiercely Debated Philosopher, 82, Dies - The New York Times

Should We Change Species to Save Them? - The New York Times

Book Review: ‘Every Living Thing,’ by Jason Roberts - The New York Times

What Birds’ Dreams Can Tell Us About Our Own - The New York Times

What’s Next for the Coronavirus? - The New York Times

¿Cuál es la siguiente fase del coronavirus? - The New York Times

Opinion | What Makes a Coincidence Meaningful? - The New York Times

¿Quiénes fueron los denisovanos? - The New York Times

For Some Mammals, Large Adult Daughters, Not Sons, Are the Norm - The New York Times

On the Trail of the Denisovans - The New York Times

Daddy Longlegs Have Been Hiding Extra Eyes From Us - The New York Times

De dinosaurios a colibríes: un nuevo debate sobre la evolución de las aves - The New York Times

An Asteroid Wiped Out Dinosaurs. Did It Help Birds Flourish? - The New York Times

A Fossilized Tree That Dr. Seuss Might Have Dreamed Up - The New York Times

Scientists Use Robotic Dinosaur to Study Evolution of Wings - The New York Times

The Ancient Back Story of the Slimiest Animal in the Sea - The New York Times

Opinion | Things I Thought Made Sense Just Don’t Anymore - The New York Times

Genes That Boost Fertility Also Shorten Our Life, Study Suggests - The New York Times

Not All Heroes Wear Capes, but These Termites Did for Science - The New York Times

home
›
New York Times
›
Science