Science

Cockatoos contain contradictions.“They behave like gremlins,” said Antonio Osuna-Mascaró, a biologist at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.His colleague Alice Auersperg agreed.“Imagine a toddler with pliers in their head,” she said, that...

Estrild is a girl with a feminist streak. She compares the thankless drudgery of her mother’s life with the homage paid to warriors. This seemed anachronistic to me, but as the narrative...

SpaceX moved one step closer to its future on Thursday with a successful ground test of the engines of the most powerful rocket ever built.The company, founded by the entrepreneur Elon Musk,...

China’s population has begun to decline, a demographic turning point for the country that has global implications. Experts had long anticipated this moment, but it arrived in 2022 several years earlier than...

About 4.9 million bottles of the multipurpose cleaning product Fabuloso have been recalled because they may contain a bacteria that can cause a serious infection in people with weakened immune systems and...

About 4.9 million bottles of the multipurpose cleaning product Fabuloso have been recalled because they may contain a bacteria that can cause a serious infection in people with weakened immune systems and...

In 2013, astronomers discovered a couple of rings around Chariklo, a body known as a centaur that orbits the sun between Saturn and Uranus. In 2017, a ring was discovered around another...

New Zealand has been a haven for earthbound birds for eons. The absence of terrestrial predators allowed flightless parrots, kiwis and moas to thrive. Now researchers are adding two prehistoric penguins to...

A fully grown male orca is one of the planet’s fiercest hunters. He’s a wily, streamlined torpedo who can weigh as much as 11 tons. No other animal preys on him. Yet...

“Society,” he added, “is way ahead of the law here.”More than two dozen countries have laws decreasing penalties and providing psychiatric care for mothers who kill children under the age of 1....