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DR P. MARAZZI/Science Source By Meredith WadmanApr. 2, 2020 , 6:20 PM On the last day of its existence, the administration of former President Barack…
A paramedic in Berlin draws blood to test for antibodies to the new coronavirus. Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Gretchen VogelApr. 2, 2020 , 4:05 PM…
Damien Roué/Flickr On this week’s show, Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt talks with host Sarah Crespi about modeling coronavirus spread and the role of forecasts in…
STEFANIA INFANTE By Meredith WadmanApr. 2, 2020 , 1:00 PM In November 2014, nine senior female scientists at the National Institute of Child Health and…
Kelsey Taylor was able to freeze her eggs before receiving therapy toxic to her ovaries. ANGELO MERENDINO By Meredith WadmanApr. 2, 2020 , 1:00 PM…
Researchers will start to treat COVID-19 patients at Aarhus University Hospital with a drug named camostat mesylate that targets a human protein. HENNING BAGGER/AFP via…
Light-sensitive proteins at the tip of this fly’s proboscis allow it to sense bitter tastes. Eye of Science/Science Source By Mitch LeslieApr. 2, 2020 ,…
Going door-to-door to deliver the oral polio vaccine would put both communities and health workers at risk of COVID-19, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative says.…
Elephants at Mpala Research Centre help keep the soil fertile even though cattle remove nutrients. Dino J. Martins By Erik StokstadApr. 1, 2020 , 4:50…
Kelvin Droegemeier Stephen Voss By Jeffrey MervisApr. 1, 2020 , 3:20 PM Kelvin Droegemeier, science adviser to President Donald Trump, today was handed another job…
By Ann GibbonsApr. 1, 2020 , 2:10 PM In 1974, the world was stunned by the discovery of “Lucy,” the partial skeleton of a human…
Workers build an emergency field hospital in New York City’s Central Park for COVID-19 patients. MARY ALTAFFER/AP PHOTO By Science News StaffApr. 1, 2020 ,…
Heat from radioactivity, not starlight, could warm planets enough to allow liquid water to exist on their surfaces. Дмитрий Ларичев/iStock.com By Katherine KorneiApr. 1, 2020…
Homo antecessor’s facial features, as seen in this reconstruction of a boy who lived 800,000 years ago in Gran Dolina, Spain, have long puzzled anthropologists.…
Dolphin Alliance Project By Elizabeth PennisiMar. 31, 2020 , 8:01 PM Males resort to all sorts of desperate measures when fertile females are scarce, including…
Johnson & Johnson is launching a major push to develop a vaccine that can neutralize the new coronavirus. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/National Institutes…
Many new vaccines are being tested to thwart the pandemic coronavirus, which infects a human cell (brown) with deadly efficiency to produce new copies (pink).…
Jennifer Haller receives the first administration of an mRNA vaccine, made by the biotech firm Moderna, against the pandemic coronavirus. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren By…
New Delhi police officers provide hand sanitizer to a homeless man on the third day of India’s national lockdown. Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times/Sipa USA By Vaishnavi…
The coronavirus pandemic is closing businesses across the United States, including this restaurant in Boston. David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images By Warren…
Meet nine scientists taking charge—feeding the world, leading academies, and inspiring social reform
Meet nine scientists taking charge—feeding the world, leading academies, and inspiring social reform
In 1939, Elsie Kokes graduated at the top of her class at Catholic University of America, but she struggled to find steady employment as a…
In medieval times, the picturesque region around Peveril Castle in the U.K.’s Peak District was a center of lead mining and an “industrial landscape.” Robjem/iStock…
Philip Anderson in 1977, the year he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of the effects of disorder in solids EMILIO SEGRE…
In certain states, growing marijuana is allowed, but only one source nationally is legal for researchers. That could change with new rules from the Drug Enforcement…
Workers at the joint-venture Dongfeng Honda in Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province, eat lunch while sitting 1.5 meter away from each other. Feature China/Barcroft Media…
A member of the Iranian army walks through a temporary 2000-bed hospital for novel coronavirus patients set up at the international exhibition center in Tehran. AP…
John Nacion/NurPhoto via Getty Images By Kelly ServickMar. 28, 2020 , 8:00 AM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center. As cases of…
In Wuhan, China, people with mild COVID-19 cases were taken to large facilities and not permitted to see their families. “Infected people must be isolated.…
Getty Images/Stringer By Gretchen VogelMar. 27, 2020 , 5:45 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center. Do newborn babies need to be…
A patient in Italy receives intensive care for COVID-19. Human geneticists are coming together to look for genes that make some people more vulnerable to…
The University of Rochester has agreed to pay $9.4 million to nine plaintiffs in a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit. University of Rochester By Meredith WadmanMar. 27,…
By looking for x-rays coming from the sky between the stars, a team of physicists claims to have ruled out one possible type of dark…
Let Ideas Compete/Flickr On this week’s show, host Joel Goldberg gets an update on the coronavirus pandemic from Senior Correspondent Jon Cohen. In addition, Cohen…
Meltwater from Greenland, like this iceberg off the eastern coast, once disrupted the Atlantic Ocean’s “conveyor belt.” imageBROKER/Alamy Stock Photo By Paul VoosenMar. 26, 2020…
Jennifer Eberhardt has devised virtual reality programs for training police to conduct traffic stops more respectfully. LIPO CHING By Douglas StarrMar. 26, 2020 , 2:00…
Researchers can use Rapid Response Research grants from the National Science Foundation to quickly launch studies of unexpected or traumatic events, such as the 2018 mass…
Preprints, such as those appearing on bioRxiv, have become a speedy way for scientists to share their results, but they haven’t been peer reviewed. By…
By Joel GoldbergMar. 26, 2020 , 8:00 AM Scientists and doctors have observed for thousands of years that some diseases, such as polio and influenza,…
Dutch models of COVID-19 are designed to help prevent overloading of hospitals and the need to transfer patients. Thomas Angus/Imperial College London By Martin Enserink,…
iStock.com/uschools By Jeffrey MervisMar. 25, 2020 , 3:35 PM The $2 trillion stimulus package that the U.S. Senate is working to approve today is aimed…
The biotech Moderna delivers messenger RNA (blue) into cells to be translated into proteins by ribosomes. V. Altounian/Science By Kelly ServickMar. 25, 2020 , 12:20…
Sentinel trees could help prevent the spread of exotic insects, such as the emerald ash borer of Asia. HERMAN WONG HM/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM By Gabriel PopkinMar. 25,…
In 1986, decades after the Minamata disaster, workers still discarded mercury-tainted fish from the bay. The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images By Joshua SokoloskiMar. 24, 2020 ,…
Emma Spiro (left) and Kate Starbird (right) (left to right): Doug Parry/Information School/University of Washington; Center for an Informed Public By Greg MillerMar. 24, 2020 ,…
Steven Wilbert and Gary Borisy/Forsyth Institute By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Mar. 24, 2020 , 11:00 AM Microbes are everywhere in our guts—and in our mouths.…
Mice bred at the Jackson Laboratory Jennifer L. Torrance/Jackson Laboratory By David GrimmMar. 23, 2020 , 5:20 PM Faced with her lab’s imminent closure, Sunny…
By David MalakoffMar. 23, 2020 , 2:25 PM Daniel Greenberg, a journalist who pioneered coverage of the intersection of science and politics and was an…
Vaccination with BCG leads to a small pustule that can develop into a scar. Kwangmoozaa/iStock By Jop de VriezeMar. 23, 2020 , 6:25 AM Researchers…
Athhon Fauci (far right) attends a recent White House press briefing on the pandemic. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Jon CohenMar. 22, 2020 ,…
Transmission electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S. National Institutes of Health By Kai Kupferschmidt, Jon…
REUTERS/Tom Brenner Mar. 22, 2020 , 1:30 PM “IT IS POSSIBLE TO STOP THE EPIDEMIC.” That’s the message splashed atop a website built by a University of…
A doctor in Germany prepares a swab to test for coronavirus infection. Daniel Reinhardt/picture alliance via Getty Images By Robert F. ServiceMar. 22, 2020 ,…
U.S. scientists raced to develop a rubella vaccine ahead of an epidemic expected in 1970. March of Dimes By Meredith WadmanMar. 21, 2020 , 8:00…
Anyaivanova/iStock By Michael PriceMar. 20, 2020 , 1:00 PM As the coronavirus outbreak roils university campuses across the world, early-career scientists are facing several dilemmas.…
A honey bee drags a dead hive mate away. Agencja Fotograficzna Caro/Alamy Stock Photo By Eva FrederickMar. 20, 2020 , 10:25 AM They’re the undertakers…
By Jeffrey Mervis, David MalakoffMar. 19, 2020 , 11:05 PM The U.S. research community is urgently asking the White House and Congress to take steps…
Antibody tests being rolled out can broadly survey who in cities like New York City (above) cleared an infection with the new coronavirus without knowing…
The king penguin throngs on Île aux Cochons in November 2019 were a fraction of their past size. ADRIEN CHAIGNE/TAAF By Eli KintischMar. 19, 2020…
Sebastian Reinecke/Flickr On this week’s show, host Joel Goldberg talks with science journalist Andrew Curry about archaeological finds from thousands of years ago along the…
A scientist at the federal Rocky Mountain Laboratories wants relief from recently imposed restrictions on fetal tissue research in order to conduct a study related to coronavirus…
Duck? Chicken? This seagull-size Cretaceous shorebird had features of ducks, chickens, and turkeys. Phillip Krzeminski By Gretchen VogelMar. 18, 2020 , 12:00 PM Go to…
A woman gets swabbed at a drive-through testing site in West Palm Beach, Florida, on 16 March. CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Images By Jon Cohen, Kai KupferschmidtMar.…
Firefighters battle a blaze in Sylmar, California, in 2019. Overall, the acreage burned by wildfires in the continental United States declined in 2019 compared to…
A lab animal facility housing rhesus macaques Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images By David GrimmMar. 18, 2020 , 11:00 AM The U.S. National Institutes…
An enumerator collects data during India’s last national census, in 2011. Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times/Getty Images By Vaishnavi ChandrashekharMar. 17, 2020 , 5:40 PM Next month,…
Multiple women alleged sexual harassment by Ranulfo Romo Trujillo of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, University City. Katia Soboleva (CC BY-SA 2.0) By Inés…
Frank Lasee, a former state legislator, is out as head of the Heartland Institute, known for its efforts to question climate science. Douglas Graham/CQ Roll…
A medical officer prepares to take samples from a visitor at a drive-through testing center at Yeungnam University Medical Center. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon By Dennis NormileMar. 17, 2020…
Polo was a popular pastime for women and men in China’s Tang dynasty, as seen by this figure of a woman playing polo on a…
Alex Pryor By Michael PriceMar. 16, 2020 , 8:01 PM Some 25,000 years ago, a circular wall of bone and ivory rose like a macabre…
A new catalyst replaces a hydrogen atom with a methyl group, which can dramatically increase a drug’s potency. Kaibo Feng By Robert F. ServiceMar. 16,…
Argonne National Laboratory has asked visitors not to come, although its Advanced Photon Source, which could help decipher the structure of coronavirus proteins, will most…
In Milan, universities like this one were ordered to close. Laboratories had to follow suit. AP Photo/Luca Bruno By Kelly Servick, Adrian Cho, Giorgia Guglielmi,…
In a display of social distancing, people sit far apart while waiting to be tested for COVID-19 at a makeshift medical testing center in Kuwait.…
The Polarstern is drifting with Arctic ice. Research flights supporting the mission have been canceled. Alfred Wegener Institute/Esther Horvath/CC BY 4.0 By Gretchen VogelMar. 16, 2020 ,…
A passenger’s temperature is taken upon arrival at Murtala International Airport in Lagos. On 27 February, Nigeria became the first sub-Saharan country to report a…
Alex Wong/Getty Images By John TravisMar. 14, 2020 , 1:10 PM “Tony, do you want to come up?” When President Donald Trump called Anthony Fauci…
People seeking help for pandemic influenza in Brazil in July 2009, when cold weather boosted the spread of the disease. JEFFERSON BERNARDES/AFP/Getty Images By Jon…
In Milan, universities like this one were ordered to close. Laboratories had to follow suit. AP Photo/Luca Bruno By Kelly Servick, Adrian Cho, Giorgia Guglielmi,…
Athletes hit a rubber ball with their hips in a version of Mesoamerica’s famous ball game, shown here in a colonial illustration. Wikimedia Commons, Christoph…
George Thompson University of California-Davis Health By Jon CohenMar. 13, 2020 , 1:30 PM On 26 February, what seems like ages ago in the ongoing…
Jonathan Pruitt, seen here in 2015 holding a black widow spider, has had his animal behavior data come under scrutiny by journals and peers. Kara…
In a 2019 fire, Notre Dame’s spire toppled and pierced its vaulted ceiling. Its lead roof melted into jagged stalactites. © PATRICK ZACHMANN/MAGNUM PHOTOS By…
r. nial bradshaw/Flickr On this week’s show, freelance writer Christa Lesté-Lasserre talks with host Sarah Crespi about the scientists working on the restoration of Notre…
In Bozhou, China, in a photo from February, workers spray disinfectant to protect against the novel coronavirus. STR/AFP via Getty Images By Robert F. ServiceMar.…
Europe’s Rosalind Franklin rover can drill 2 meters into the surface of Mars. ESA/ATG medialab By Daniel CleryMar. 12, 2020 , 10:25 AM Multiple technical issues…
By Erik StokstadMar. 11, 2020 , 5:55 PM The United Kingdom will increase public funding for research and development by 15% in the next fiscal…
Pearlie Epling-Burnette in her former lab at the Moffitt Cancer Center. Pearlie Epling-Burnett By Jeffrey MervisMar. 11, 2020 , 5:45 PM One of Pearlie Epling-Burnette’s…
A study to prod an antimony nucleus (buried in the middle of this device) with magnetic fields became one with electric fields when a key wire melted…
Lida XING By Gretchen VogelMar. 11, 2020 , 12:00 PM This tiny head, 14 millimeters long (including the beak), belongs to one of the smallest…
A team from Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center carry supplies in preparation for home visits to collect samples from people potentially exposed to the new coronavirus.…
J. Hinkelman, L. Vrsanska, The Science of Nature-Naturwissenschaften 10.1007 (2020) By Gretchen VogelMar. 10, 2020 , 5:30 PM Look closely at this piece of fossilized…
A camera trap caught this image of a Madagascar forest cat on its home turf. Julie Pomerantz and Luke Dollar By Joshua SokolMar. 10, 2020…
In this new electrolyzer, an improved ion-conducting membrane (yellow film, right) enables hydrogen generation from water without expensive catalysts. Yu Seung Kim/Los Alamos National Laboratory…
iStock.com/bboserup By Kelsey Brugger, E&E NewsMar. 10, 2020 , 2:50 PM Originally published by E&E News The White House has released a working copy of…
Where schools have closed, teachers have attempted to continue coursework with their students online. Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelMar. 10, 2020 ,…
By David MalakoffMar. 9, 2020 , 11:23 PM When Craig Dalton heard that his name came up at a nationally televised White House press briefing…
Tables are empty at St. Mark’s Square in Venice after the Italian government adopted emergency measures to contain the novel coronavirus. Manuel Silvestri By Kai…
DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART By Jeffrey BrainardMar. 9, 2020 , 4:00 AM In the push for “open access” (OA)—making scientific papers immediately free to everyone—it’s easy…
Medical personnel in protective suits were seen at a diplomatic compound in North Korea amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Yevgeny Agoshkov/TASS via Getty Images By Richard StoneMar.…
(left to right): CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION; SPL/SCIENCE SOURCE; CHRISTOPHE GATEAU/DPA/ALAMY LIVE NEWS By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Mar. 6, 2020 , 4:20 PM…
Clifford Lane National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases By Jon CohenMar. 6, 2020 , 1:00 PM On 13 February, Clifford Lane went to a…
A medical officer scans a passenger for signs of fever at the arrival terminal of Sultan Iskandar Muda International Airport in Aceh Besar, Indonesia, on…
Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelMar. 5, 2020 , 6:40 PM A $115 million collaboration to tackle COVID-19, led by heavy hitters…
Zoe Shuttleworth/Flickr On this week’s show, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how dogs’ cold noses may be able to…
A neutrophil (orange) traps bacteria by extruding a net of DNA—a protective response that can backfire. SPL/SCIENCE SOURCE By Mitch LeslieMar. 5, 2020 , 2:00…
Leo, a Norwegian buhund, hides under a bed during thunderstorm. Bill Douthitt/Science By Michael PriceMar. 5, 2020 , 11:55 AM Every Fourth of July, the…
In 2018, an atmospheric block caused drought that dried out the Rhine River in Germany. CHRISTOPHE GATEAU/DPA/ALAMY LIVE NEWS By Paul VoosenMar. 5, 2020 ,…
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler AP Photo/Patrick Semansky By Kelsey Brugger, E&E NewsMar. 4, 2020 , 4:30 PM Originally published by E&E News…
Critics fear a new Environmental Protection Agency rule would not adequately protect streams and wetlands. jon chica parade/iStock.com By Jeremy P. Jacobs, E&E NewsMar. 4, 2020…
Farm-raised tilapia at a market in Egypt, where growers have had outbreaks of a damaging fish virus. WORLDFISH/FLICKR/CC BY-NC-ND By Erik StokstadMar. 4, 2020 ,…
A new telescope, under construction on a 3170-meter mountaintop in eastern Turkey, is expected to come online next year. ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY ASTROPHYSICS RESEARCH AND APPLICATION…
Smokers can contaminate nonsmoking indoor spaces with thirdhand cigarette smoke. Tarasylo/iStock By Erica TennenhouseMar. 4, 2020 , 2:00 PM Scientists have warned about the dangers…
Kate Kirby, a theoretical physicist, has been CEO of the 55,000-member American Physical Society since 2015. Harold Dorwin/Center for Astrophysics/Harvard & Smithsonian By Adrian ChoMar.…
Sex chromosomes influence physical differences between male and female animals, such as feather patterns in mandarin ducks. Chris Schenk/Minden Pictures By Erin MalsburyMar. 3, 2020…
A woman wearing a face mask waits for a commuter train in Jakarta, Indonesia. Scientists worry Indonesia may already have a “silent epidemic” of COVID-19.…
When trawl nets stir up sediments, microbes remove less nitrogen. Too much of this nutrient can harm water quality. Ingo Wagner/Picture Alliance/Getty Images By Erik…
By Virginia MorellMar. 3, 2020 , 11:15 AM Whether it’s calculating your risk of catching the new coronavirus or gauging the chance of rain on…
Other countries can take lessons from China’s handling of the COVID-19 epidemic, the World Health Organization’s Bruce Aylward told reporters in Beijing on 24 January.…
MeTooSTEM founder BethAnn McLaughlin faces a severe challenge to her leadership. Lane Turner/The Boston Globe/Getty Images By Meredith WadmanMar. 2, 2020 , 3:45 PM *Update,…
Minerals near deep-sea hydrothermal vents promote the formation of energy-rich organic molecules that life needed to get its start. NOAA/Nature Source/Science Source By Robert F.…
By Adrian ChoMar. 1, 2020 , 12:12 PM Citing the growing threat of the coronavirus, the American Physical Society (APS), the 55,000 member professional society for…
By Jon CohenFeb. 29, 2020 , 5:39 PM The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today recommended a dramatic shift in how it implements regulations that control whether…
A faulty reagent in a test kit distributed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has hampered efforts to find and confirm COVID-19…
(left to right): MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES; JENNIFER Y. LAMB AND MATTHEW P. DAVIS; KYODO/NEWSCOM By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Feb. 28, 2020 , 3:40…
The famous “Nazareth inscription” warns grave robbers that stealing bodies is punishable by death—but the marble tablet likely isn’t from Nazareth. © BnF By Ann GibbonsFeb.…
New regulations in Canada should reduce the number of right whales getting tangled up in fishing gear. Nick Hawkins/Minden Pictures By Elizabeth PennisiFeb. 28, 2020…
An infrared photo of a golden retriever in an fMRI scanner reveals the cold temperature of a dog’s nose versus its glowing, warm body. Anna…
A traveler wearing a protective facemask at Changi Airport in Singapore. The city has not seen COIVD-19 cases exploding yet. Roslan RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images…
New rules could govern which scientific studies the Department of the Interior allows to inform its efforts to manage some 200 million hectares of land,…
3d imagination/shutterstock.com By Dalmeet Singh ChawlaFeb. 27, 2020 , 2:00 PM Online sleuths have discovered what they suspect is a paper mill that has produced…
Christian Hipólito This week on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a turning point for one ancient Mesoamerican city:…
Teotihuacan was once a bustling, cosmopolitan metropolis, the center of an empire whose reach may have extended 1000 kilometers away to the Maya region. MAX…
Last year, in an 18-hour balloon flight over Canada, SuperBIT held steady and took sharp pictures. SUPERBIT COLLABORATION By Adrian ChoFeb. 27, 2020 , 12:15…
At twilight, streaks from Starlink satellites could ruin about one-third of Vera C. Rubin Observatory images. VICTORIA GIRGIS/LOWELL OBSERVATORY By Daniel CleryFeb. 27, 2020 ,…
Jennifer Y. Lamb and Matthew P. Davis. By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Feb. 27, 2020 , 11:00 AM At first glance, most salamanders don’t stand out:…
Opioid overdoses can be deadly because the drug can signal the brain to stop a person’s breathing. Brian Snyder/REUTERS By Kelly ServickFeb. 27, 2020 ,…
Amanda Smith By Daniel CleryFeb. 26, 2020 , 7:01 PM A nearby exoplanet with rainclouds in its atmosphere may have habitable conditions at its surface,…
Sponsors of clinical trials must report missing data from hundreds of trials from 2007–17. Halfpoint/iStock.com By Meagan WeilandFeb. 26, 2020 , 6:00 PM Drug companies,…
Afghan security forces trained by the U.S. military keep watch near the site of a suicide attack in Kabul this month. Omar Sobhani/REUTERS By Jeffrey…
Researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Lille, France, at work on the new coronavirus on 20 February. SYLVAIN LEFEVRE/GETTY IMAGES By Kai KupferschmidtFeb. 26, 2020…
By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Feb. 26, 2020 , 11:00 AM Humans are one of only a few creatures on the planet that can walk and…
Residents of Casalpusterlengo, an Italian town under lockdown, line up to enter a supermarket. MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images By Jon Cohen, Kai KupferschmidtFeb. 25,…
These tools, excavated from a site in central India, may have been continuously produced between 80,000 and 25,000 years ago. Chris Clarkson By Michael PriceFeb.…
So far, eight public servants who visited the Diamond Princess to support a quarantine have contracted the virus that causes COVID-19. Kyodo/Newscom By Dennis NormileFeb. 25,…
MeTooSTEM founder BethAnn McLaughlin faces a severe challenge to her leadership. Lane Turner/The Boston Globe/Getty Images By Meredith WadmanFeb. 24, 2020 , 6:00 PM The…
A worker at a factory in India arranges cow urine capsules, believed by many Hindus to have medicinal properties. Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg/Getty Images By Vaishnavi ChandrashekharFeb.…
When humans began to farm and live with their livestock, they evolved a more virulent form of salmonella. Annette Günzel By Ann GibbonsFeb. 24, 2020 ,…
(left to right): GERALDINE WERHAHN/ HIMALAYAN WOLVES PROJECT; VLAD TCHOMPALOV/UNSPLASH; NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON/SCIENCE SOURCE By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Feb. 21, 2020 , 3:25 PM…
iStock.com/bboserup By Kelsey Brugger, E&E NewsFeb. 21, 2020 , 2:15 PM Originally published by E&E News The White House issued a notice Wednesday seeking comment…
Killer whales with yellow skin restore their white patches after migrating to warmer waters to molt. John Durban/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Holly Fearnbach/SR3 By…
Himalayan wolves may be a separate species of wolf. Geraldine Werhahn/ Himalayan Wolves Project By Virginia MorellFeb. 20, 2020 , 3:55 PM In the high…
A scientist holds a baby marmoset, an increasingly in-demand animal in biomedical research. Sam Ogden/Science Source By David GrimmFeb. 20, 2020 , 3:55 PM More…
New research suggests ancient methane—like that trapped in an Alaskan lake—won’t flood the atmosphere as the climate warms in the coming decades. Mark Thiessen/National Geographic…
By Joel GoldbergFeb. 20, 2020 , 2:00 PM To survive parched pond beds during monthslong dry seasons in countries like Zimbabwe and Mozambique, the African…
Idaho Bureau of Land Management On this week’s show, Staff Writer Robert F. Service talks with host Sarah Crespi about manipulating microbes to make them…
A new algorithm can predict who is likely to prefer abstract art, like this unnamed Mark Rothko painting on display at Sotheby’s in New York…
National movements, like the one behind this demonstration in Santiago, Chile, have helped drive changes on campuses. MARCELO HERNANDEZ/GETTY IMAGES By Lindzi Wessel, Rodrigo Pérez…
National Science Foundation Director France Córdova (far left) hosted a 70th anniversary symposium that featured six former directors: (left to right) Subra Suresh, Arden Bement, Rita…
A port security officer at the Diamond Princess in Yokohama, Japan’s port. Passengers who tested negative for the coronavirus began to leave the cruise ship today.…
Researcher Jeff Leach has studied the microbiome of the Hadza people of Tanzania. © GULF NEWS, DUBAI By Gretchen VogelFeb. 19, 2020 , 12:30 PM…
Self-driving cars are one of the high-risk artificial intelligence applications the European Union wants to regulate. Drive.ai/iStock By Nicholas WallaceFeb. 19, 2020 , 12:05 PM…
Posts on social media and even a scientific paper have suggested the coronavirus that causes COVID-19—seen here in orange, emerging from a cell—originated in a virology…
Information was encoded in the DNA of a strain of salt-tolerant Halobacterium salinarum. JOE DAVIS By Steve NadisFeb. 18, 2020 , 4:30 PM Joe Davis is…
Engineered microbes tailor-made this biofilm (green), shown on a glass bead. NEEL JOSHI By Robert F. ServiceFeb. 18, 2020 , 1:50 PM The bricks in…
An adult minke whale off the coast of Australia. As the ocean becomes louder, minke calls are being drowned out. ROBERT HARDING PICTURE LIBRARY/Nat Geo…
WSU Photo Services By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Feb. 18, 2020 , 11:35 AM SEATTLE—Death is not environmentally friendly. Cemeteries take up about 500 square kilometers…
A man passes by the deserted campus of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan. Most other universities in China are closed as well.…
An artist’s conception of a nanowire power plant. Ella Maru Studio By Elizabeth PennisiFeb. 17, 2020 , 1:00 PM Generating electricity from thin air may…
Digital Legacy Association By Eva FrederickFeb. 16, 2020 , 7:30 PM SEATTLE–Over the course of the next few decades, there will be more and more…
sestovic/iStock By Sarah AllenFeb. 16, 2020 , 2:05 PM SEATTLE—Goodbye cotton candy, fruit medley, and crème brûlée. The tantalizing flavors that may have helped to…
Thousands march in Washington, D.C. to fight for science. Vlad Tchompalov/Unsplash By Jessica ScarfutoFeb. 16, 2020 , 1:30 PM SEATTLE—Are you excited about that new…
People demonstrating in support of SB54 in Sacramento, California. By David ShultzFeb. 15, 2020 , 7:01 PM SEATTLE–In September 2017, California made itself a “sanctuary…
Ed Lein studies living human tissue to understand how the human adult brain works. Allen Institute By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Feb. 14, 2020 , 6:00…
Exposure to wildfire smoke may cause long-term health effects, research suggests. Rick Rycroft/AP By Eva FrederickFeb. 14, 2020 , 5:51 PM SEATTLE–The worst of Australia’s…
Left to right: ULET IFANSASTI/STRINGER/GETTY IMAGES, CAROLINE BREHMAN/CQ-ROLL CALL INC./GETTY IMAGES, International Gemini Observatory/NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/AURA By Catherine MatacicFeb. 14, 2020 ,…
An artist’s illustration of Stone Age hunter-gatherers fishing. Lou-Foto/Alamy Stock Photo By Ian RandallFeb. 14, 2020 , 11:45 AM You’ll be healthier if you ate…
Antonia Groneberg By John TravisFeb. 14, 2020 , 8:00 AM Move over Jennifer Lopez and Shakira. Antoina Groneberg’s innovative depiction of zebrafish brain development has just…
Two of the four finalists for NASA’s newest Discovery mission propose to visit Venus. Irina Dmitrienko/Alamy Stock Photo By Paul VoosenFeb. 13, 2020 , 5:35 PM…
Researchers want to know more about how misinformation spread by social media can affect election outcomes. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst By Jeffrey MervisFeb. 13, 2020 , 5:10…
Physicists used a special technique to help photons travel further down standard optical fibers. Henrik500/iStock By Adrian ChoFeb. 13, 2020 , 3:00 PM Physicists in…
Many National Ecological Observatory Network sites include towers bristling with instruments that collect a wide range of environmental data. Courtesy of the NEON Program and Battelle…
Jon Mold Structural biologists rejoiced when cryo–electron microscopy, a technique to generate highly detailed models of biomolecules, emerged. But years after its release, researchers still…
A Russian health official uses thermal imaging devices to remotely measure temperature of passengers from China arriving at Novosibirsk International Airport. Kirill Kukhmar/TASS via Getty…
A sharp-eyed collector spotted this translucent flint blade—crafted by hunter-gatherers about 8000 years ago—on a Dutch beach. MANON BRUININGA By Andrew CurryJan. 30, 2020 ,…
This brown mite (center) often infects honey bees, transmitting deadly viruses to them. Alexander Wild By Elizabeth PennisiJan. 30, 2020 , 2:00 PM The world’s honey…
ISTOCK.COM/erhui1979, ADAPTED BY C. AYCOCK/SCIENCE By Jeffrey MervisJan. 30, 2020 , 11:30 AM The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is hoping universities will use a…
When a genetically modified diamondback moth mates, half of its offspring will die. D. Olmstead/Cornell University By Erik StokstadJan. 30, 2020 , 10:50 AM Diamondback…
Neanderthals like the one in this reconstruction left traces of DNA in modern Africans as well as in Europeans and Asians. Flavio Massari/agefotostock/Newscom By Michael…
By Meagan CantwellJan. 29, 2020 , 2:00 PM However stinky the result, you should thank your ability to sweat on a hot day—without it, your…
A white rhino with its calf on a private game reserve in South Africa Ann and Steve Toon/Minden Pictures By Linda NordlingJan. 29, 2020 ,…
By Daniel CleryJan. 29, 2020 , 1:20 PM This new close-up of the turbulent boiling plasma of the solar surface is the debut image of…
Lab-grown organoids capture many aspects of brain development, but their cells fail to mature like real brain cells. Madeline Andrews/Arnold Kriegstein Lab/University of California, San…
California aims to reduce childhood trauma’s harmful health effects. ISTOCK.COM/CRAIGRJD By Emily UnderwoodJan. 29, 2020 , 12:30 PM On 1 January, California became the first…
Models suggest black holes can stretch devoured stars into long streamers. NASA/JPL-Caltech By Daniel CleryJan. 28, 2020 , 5:05 PM At the center of nearly…
DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART By Kai KupferschmidtJan. 28, 2020 , 4:35 PM After one referendum, two snap elections, and more than 3 years of dithering and…
By Paul VoosenJan. 28, 2020 , 4:05 PM Using a robot dropped through a 700-meter hole in the ice, scientists stationed on Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier…
By Science News StaffJan. 28, 2020 , 2:32 PM The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston announced today it has charged Charles Lieber, the chair of…
A patient arrives at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital on 25 January. Scientists in Wuhan have already set up a study to test existing antiviral…