Alison Yin/AP Images for HHMI By Jocelyn KaiserFeb. 22, 2019 , 3:25 PM This week, cell biologist Ron Vale was named executive director of Janelia…
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Scientists at the federal Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, have restarted an HIV study that was interrupted by an order to stop acquiring human fetal tissue. National…
(left to right): ISTOCK.COM/SUNRAY BRI CATTERY RU; ©2019 DIGITALGLOBE, A MAXAR COMPANY By Alex FoxFeb. 22, 2019 , 1:20 PM Reality check: Can cat poop…
Hayabusa2 imaged its shadow during a rehearsal descent. JAXA By Dennis NormileFeb. 22, 2019 , 6:30 AM Update: Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully executed a challenging…
The solar system’s most distant object is 140 times farther from the sun than Earth. NASA/JPL-Caltech By Paul VoosenFeb. 21, 2019 , 10:16 PM For…
By Kai KupferschmidtFeb. 21, 2019 , 5:30 PM Project Deal, a consortium of libraries, universities, and research institutes in Germany, has unveiled an unprecedented deal…
Monica Staniek By Elizabeth PennisiFeb. 21, 2019 , 2:35 PM Dogs are champs at smelling, a quality that has been harnessed to sniff out mines…
© Clay Bolt By Erik StokstadFeb. 21, 2019 , 2:10 PM In 1981, the world’s biggest bee went missing—again. Wallace’s giant bee (above, right), which…
© Clay Bolt By Erik StokstadFeb. 21, 2019 , 2:10 PM In 1981, the world’s biggest bee went missing—again. Wallace’s giant bee (above, right), which…
The hardened lava flows of the Deccan Traps, in western India, may have played a role in the demise of the dinosaurs. Gerta Keller By…
By Scott Waldman, E&E NewsFeb. 21, 2019 , 12:15 PM Originally published by E&E News President Donald Trump’s administration found a way to formally question…
Blocking CCR5 boosted neural projections from the brain’s motor region (left). MARY TEENA JOY By Kelly ServickFeb. 21, 2019 , 11:00 AM Stroke treatment has…
Jorge Gonzalez By Gretchen VogelFeb. 21, 2019 , 9:00 AM Tyrannosaurus rex and its relatives ruled supreme in North America at the end of the…
By Adrian ChoFeb. 21, 2019 , 8:00 AM CORVALLIS, OREGON—To a world facing the existential threat of global warming, nuclear power would appear to be…
Tim Caro By Virginia MorellFeb. 20, 2019 , 2:00 PM Scientists have proposed more than a dozen ideas to explain why zebras evolved stripes. Some…
Solvin Zankl/Minden Pictures By Michael PriceFeb. 20, 2019 , 2:00 PM Ask parents of newborns whether they think sleep is overrated and you’re liable to…
Blood from a finger prick can be analyzed for viruses like HIV, but a new privacy rule may restrict research on such data in South…
By Rachel BernsteinFeb. 18, 2019 , 3:00 PM Just ask any new parent: Adding a baby to a household can also add stress to a…
ClassicStock/Alamy Stock Photo By Sid PerkinsFeb. 19, 2019 , 4:40 PM A lobster’s shell is pretty tough. But the transparent material on the underside of…
Satellites reveal the telltale shapes of brick kilns in India. ©2019 DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company By Sarah ScolesFeb. 19, 2019 , 3:45 PM Doreen Boyd…
A forest of gallium nitride nanowires harnesses energy in light to convert methanol to ethanol. Sheng Chu/McGill University By Robert F. ServiceFeb. 19, 2019 ,…
Early Sri Lankans turned the bones of the monkeys and squirrels they hunted into these projectile points. N. Amano By Virginia MorellFeb. 19, 2019 ,…
[embedded content] By Alex FoxFeb. 18, 2019 , 3:15 PM YouTubers have gone grape crazy. In a plethora of internet videos, kitchen scientists have cut…
Spanish neuroscientist and Nobel laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal ponders the branching structure of neurons in Neurocomic, by Matteo Farinella. Matteo Farinella By Alex FoxFeb.…
By Jessica ScarfutoFeb. 17, 2019 , 11:04 AM A packed house for Friday’s session on evidence-based policymaking. Robb Cohen Photography & Video WAHSINGTON, D.C.–Present both…
Oliver Cossairt/Northwestern University Computational Photography Lab By Sid PerkinsFeb. 16, 2019 , 2:08 PM WASHINGTON, D.C.—Ever wonder if a lost masterpiece lies hidden under the…
Dale Kronkright/Georgia O’Keeffe Museum By Sid PerkinsFeb. 16, 2019 , 2:08 PM WASHINGTON, D.C.—Ever wonder if a lost masterpiece lies hidden under the surface of…
A wolf pup faces off with a tank on a training ground near Munster, Germany. Sebastian Koerner/LUPOVISION By Erik StokstadFeb. 15, 2019 , 5:55 PM…
A study finds that papers describing the results of clinical trials often fail to properly report outcomes. ISTOCK.COM/PEOPLEIMAGES By Jocelyn KaiserFeb. 15, 2019 , 4:45…
(Left to right): ANDIA/UIG/GETTY IMAGES; ANITA KUNZ; NASA SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION STUDIO By Alex FoxFeb. 15, 2019 , 4:10 PM Stonehenge, other ancient rock structures may…
Congress is considering spending bills that warn NASA not to exceed a new $8.8 billion cap for the James Webb Space Telescope, now under construction.…
Some people believe that a fuzzy, negative image of a face on a strip of linen belongs to Jesus. But studies have shown the cloth was…
Pramodh Senarath Yapa By John BohannonFeb. 15, 2019 , 12:00 PM Scientific research can be a lonely pursuit. And for Pramodh Senarath Yapa, a physicist…
iStock.com/SunRay BRI Cattery RU By Emily UnderwoodFeb. 15, 2019 , 8:00 AM Alert! “Cats Can Literally Make You Crazy.” Wait! “Cats Don’t Cause Mental Illness.”…
This new device shows that an LED can cool other tiny objects. Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing By Daniel GaristoFeb. 14, 2019 , 3:50…
Fire fighting foams often include per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, which have contaminated water supplies across the United States. Mario Tama/Getty Images By Natasha Gilbert Feb. 14,…
Kelvin Droegemeier outside his office adjacent to the White House. Stephen Voss By Jeffrey MervisFeb. 14, 2019 , 2:15 PM The new science adviser to…
[embedded content] By Erik StokstadFeb. 14, 2019 , 2:35 PM Unlike lovelorn humans, ground-bound plants can’t go searching for a partner; instead, they rely on…
The European rabbit devastated crops and pastures in Australia and elsewhere. ROB SUISTED/NATURE’S PIC IMAGES By Elizabeth PennisiFeb. 14, 2019 , 2:00 PM Researchers have…
The black-winged myna of Indonesia is one of 271 species threatened by the wildlife trade, but it has not been protected under international law. JOEL SARTORE/NATIONAL…
Chaos from storms and other small-scale phenomena will likely limit weather forecasts to 2 weeks. iStock.com/ tonisvisuals By Paul VoosenFeb. 14, 2019 , 9:30 AM…
By the 2030s, computer data storage may surpass 1 yottabyte (1024), the largest number with an official metric prefix. UWE MOSER MOSER/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO By…
SPHEREx would map hundreds of millions of galaxies in the infrared. NASA JPL By Adam MannFeb. 13, 2019 , 5:35 PM NASA has just given…
NASA’s Opportunity rover, seen here in a composite image, landed on Mars 15 years ago. Its end is nigh. Mars Exploration Rover Mission/Cornell/JPL/NASA By Paul VoosenFeb.…
[embedded content] By Alex FoxFeb. 13, 2019 , 2:00 PM If you happen to be a robot, then you happen to have one very good…
By Sarah CrespiFeb. 13, 2019 , 2:00 PM Researchers took the same technology that is normally used to track goods in a warehouse and used…
Platelet decoys (surrounded here by collagen fibers) could help us better understand platelet biology and potentially be a treatment for some patients. Anna Waterhouse, Anne-Laure Papa,…
desvitlab/shutterstock.com By Kelly ServickFeb. 13, 2019 , 1:40 PM Rough sleep is bad for your mind—and your heart. It can increase the risk of clogged…
The Indian government in 2017 decided to fund research to validate claims that panchagavya, a mixture that includes cow urine and dung, has therapeutic value.…
NASA SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION STUDIO By Paul VoosenFeb. 12, 2019 , 5:30 PM Just months after revealing an impact crater the size of Washington, D.C., buried…
A nurse gives a child a measles shot at City Children’s Hospital in Odessa, Ukraine, in October 2018. Julia Phil/Odessa city children’s hospital By Meredith WadmanFeb. 12, 2019…
By Meredith WadmanFeb. 12, 2019 , 4:04 PM BethAnn McLaughlin has no time for James Watson, especially not when the 90-year-old geneticist is peering out…
iStock.com/ArchiViz By Sid PerkinsFeb. 12, 2019 , 11:00 AM Climate change is a hard thing to imagine, especially 60 years into the future. With that…
The famed megalith Carnac in the Brittany region of northwestern France Andia/UIG/Getty Images By Michael PriceFeb. 11, 2019 , 3:00 PM Stonehenge may be the…
President Donald Trump Gage Skidmore/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) By Matthew HutsonFeb. 11, 2019 , 12:01 AM Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a defining issue of…
A worker at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory harvests avian flu viruses for sharing with other laboratories in 2013. CDC/James Gathany By…
Many foreign scientists could be banned from working at such Department of Energy facilities as the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory (above)…
(left to right): RMIT University; V. ALTOUNIAN/SCIENCE; JIM RICHARDSON/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC By Alex FoxFeb. 8, 2019 , 3:40 PM Bees ‘get’ addition and subtraction, new study…
Imani/Unsplash By Natasha Gilbert Feb. 8, 2019 , 3:30 PM In recent weeks, the leadership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C.,…
By Jon CohenFeb. 8, 2019 , 2:20 PM The University of California (UC) has received good news on a patent for the invention of the…
Senator Chuck Grassley (R–IA) has been concerned about foreign powers poaching U.S.-funded research. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Images By David MalakoffFeb. 7, 2019 , 4:55…
Michael Eric Nickel/Flickr Because of its genetic complexity, the potato didn’t undergo a “green revolution” like other staple crops. It can take more than 15 years…
Diverse potatoes, such as these from Peru, will help breeders create resilient new varieties. JIM RICHARDSON/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC By Erik StokstadFeb. 7, 2019 , 2:00 PM…
These pills were engineered to drive a tiny needle into the stomach lining. Alex Abramson/MIT By Robert F. ServiceFeb. 7, 2019 , 2:00 PM In…
Imaginima/iStockPhoto By Robert F. ServiceFeb. 7, 2019 , 1:50 PM It’s the drug discovery equivalent of looking for a book on Amazon versus at your…
The Large Millimeter Telescope in the Mexican state of Puebla has severely reduced scientific operations in the wake of carjackings and robberies. Dario Lopez-Mills/AP Photo By…
President Donald Trump announced an initiative to end HIV/AIDS in the United States during his 2019 State of the Union address. Doug Mills/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Jon…
By Nick Sobczyk, E&E NewsFeb. 6, 2019 , 3:45 PM Reprinted from E&E News Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives this morning brought climate…
RMIT University By Alex FoxFeb. 6, 2019 , 2:00 PM If math is the language of the universe, bees may have just uttered their first…
The space-based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has seen more positron antimatter than expected. NASA By Adrian ChoFeb. 6, 2019 , 1:40 PM A costly and controversial…
A major challenge to ending AIDS in the U.S. is reaching the many HIV-infected immigrants who now slip through the cracks. This clinic in Miami’s…
Bart Pollux By Erika K. CarlsonFeb. 5, 2019 , 7:01 PM For fish like the porthole livebearer (Poeciliopsis gracilis, above), pregnancy might be less of…
JOEL SARTORE/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC By Alex FoxFeb. 5, 2019 , 7:01 PM Scientists have long wondered when the kangaroo’s distinctive leap first appeared. But ancient kangaroo…
[embedded content] By Alex FoxFeb. 5, 2019 , 7:01 PM If you’ve got the stomach for it, you can watch 10,000 maggots demolish the above…
The ruins of an Incan royal estate in Chinchero, Peru. Felix Lipov/Alamy Stock Photo By Lizzie WadeFeb. 5, 2019 , 2:50 PM Last month, a phalanx of…
Pictionary involves expressing ideas with simple sketches. Lloyd Bishop/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images By Matthew HutsonFeb. 5, 2019 , 10:00 AM For decades, scientists…
Sending Africa’s girls to school can help slow population growth many years later, a new study suggests. Olivier Asselin/Alamy Stock Photo By Jocelyn KaiserFeb. 4,…
iStock.com/YayaErnst By Jeffrey MervisFeb. 4, 2019 , 12:45 PM A major perk of being the majority party in the U.S. Congress is getting to fill…
The magnitude-7.5 earthquake that devastated Palu, Indonesia, last September, razing buildings in the nearby village of Perumnas Balaroa, traveled at rare “supershear” speed, potentially heightening…
Among the many microbes in the gut (above), some may influence mood. V. Altounian/AAAS By Elizabeth PennisiFeb. 4, 2019 , 11:00 AM Of all the…
PeopleImages/iStockphoto By John BohannonFeb. 4, 2019 , 9:00 AM Contestants in a global scientific competition are flying toward the finish line. They are researchers who…
(left to right): MAX AGUILERA HELLWEG; PIXABAY; NASA/JPL/Cornell University By Alex FoxFeb. 1, 2019 , 1:45 PM A storied Russian lab is trying to push…
Where does the periodic table end? | Science | AAAS Skip to main content Feb. 1, 2019 , 1:10 PM More from ScienceShots Source: Science…
Smith Chetanachan/Alamy Stock Photo By Elizabeth PennisiFeb. 1, 2019 , 10:00 AM In the United States alone, we spend more than $2.5 billion a year…
Peter Scoones/Minden Pictures By Jake BuehlerFeb. 1, 2019 , 8:00 AM Alligators dine on many strange delicacies: sharks, kumquats, and stones. Scientists have long thought…
A brief visual history of the periodic table By Jake Yeston, Nirja Desai, and Elbert Wang 31 January 2019 Producer and illustrations Nirja Desai …
Jim Baird (R–IN) and other freshmen members of Congress choose their offices through a lottery. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP Photo By Jeffrey MervisJan. 31, 2019…
Orla Smith, editor of Science Translational Medicine joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about what has changed in the past 10 years of microbiome research, what’s…
By Robert F. ServiceJan. 31, 2019 , 2:00 PM A Star Trek–like replicator has arrived, but don’t expect it to synthesize a cup of Earl…
Early-career scientists hold a rally at the office of the Ministry of Human Resource Development in New Delhi on 16 January. Pallava Bagla By Pallava BaglaJan.…
Dead fish floating in the Darling River near Menindee, Australia, earlier this month. Jeremy Buckingham’s Office By Dennis NormileJan. 31, 2019 , 1:15 PM Even…
iStock.com/ shaunl By Sid PerkinsJan. 31, 2019 , 12:50 PM The technology that allows submariners to breathe underwater could someday allow the rest of us…
An adult male zebra finch (center) perches between his mate (left) and his son (right). Michael Goldstein By Virginia MorellJan. 31, 2019 , 11:00 AM…
ISTOCK.COM/SMOLAW11 By Jeffrey BrainardJan. 31, 2019 , 11:00 AM Only a small proportion of open-access scientific journals fully meet the draft requirements of Plan S,…
A fin whale found on an Alaskan beach in 2015 might have been among the victims of The Blob. BREE WITTEVEEN By Warren CornwallJan. 31,…
Yuri Oganessian has contributed so much to the periodic table that element 118 is named after him. Now, he wants to find even heavier elements.…
A herder with her goats in southern Mongolia ADAM OSWELL By Kathleen McLaughlinJan. 30, 2019 , 2:15 PM NOMGON SOUM, MONGOLIA—A massive sandstorm is crashing…
An abundance of sunflower sea stars before the outbreak of “sea star wasting disease” off the coast of Canada. Neil McDaniel By Alex FoxJan. 30,…
Denisova Cave offered a good vantage for spotting game—and other humans. RICHARD ROBERTS By Ann GibbonsJan. 30, 2019 , 1:00 PM With its light-filled main…
A surface elevation table is used to measure subsidence in a tropical swamp in Indonesia. SIGIT DENI SASMITO/CIFOR/FLICKR By Paul VoosenJan. 30, 2019 , 12:10…
Officials worry that the Komodo dragon population is declining because of tourism. Reinhard Dirscherl/Alamy Stock Photo By Dyna Rochmyaningsih Jan. 29, 2019 , 5:05 PM…
To thrive in extreme environments like thermal springs, unicellular red algae (green) have taken in bacteria genes. Debashish Bhattacharya By Elizabeth PennisiJan. 29, 2019 ,…
The large Apollo 14 sample called “Big Bertha” holds a 2-centimeter chip thought to be from Earth. NASA By Richard A. LovettJan. 29, 2019 ,…
Anchiornis dinosaur feathers were likely an evolutionary intermediate on the way to flight. ROBERT CLARK/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC By Robert F. ServiceJan. 28, 2019 , 3:50 PM…
Anup Shah/Minden Pictures By Michael PriceJan. 28, 2019 , 3:00 PM Our very earliest, rodentlike ancestors likely trod the earth some 200 million years ago…
Furloughed federal workers who protested the shutdown earlier this month in Washington, D.C. will be going back to work, for at least 3 weeks. Flickr/AFGE…
Pixabay By Alex FoxJan. 25, 2019 , 5:10 PM The northern lights (above) and their lesser known sibling the southern lights, aurora borealis and aurora…
NASA’s Opportunity rover, seen here in a composite image, landed on Mars 15 years ago. Its end is nigh. Mars Exploration Rover Mission/Cornell/JPL/NASA By Paul VoosenJan.…
Hiroya Minakuchi/Minden Pictures By Joshua Rapp LearnJan. 25, 2019 , 1:05 PM Orcas aren’t necessarily new to the Chukchi Sea, which lies just north of…
(left to right): DAVIDE BONAZZI/@SALZMANART; ISTOCK.COM/PEETERV; KEN RICHARDSON By Alex FoxJan. 25, 2019 , 12:35 PM Scientific societies worry Plan S will make them shutter…
OrdinaryJoe/shutterstock.com By Lizzie WadeJan. 25, 2019 , 5:00 AM Neanderthals were dangerous—even at a distance. A new study suggests they might have been able to…
To form an egg or sperm cell, a cell splits into two during meiosis so each resulting cell only contains half the chromosomes of the…
Wornden LY/Flickr The “dank” smelling terpenes emitted by growing marijuana can combine with chemicals in car emissions to form ozone, a health-damaging compound. This is…
Researchers want to know more about how pot farms, like this one in Avondale, Colorado, affect air quality. MATTHEW STAVER/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES By Jason…
SÉBASTIEN THIBAULT By Alex FoxJan. 24, 2019 , 2:10 PM In the run-up to the 2016 U.S presidential election, a website calling itself “WTO5 News”…
Juniors Bildarchiv GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo By Mary BeckmanJan. 24, 2019 , 12:00 PM Forget the running wheel. If your pet mouse is an…
Scientists have found one fifth of the Ebola virus genome in a greater long-fingered bat captured near an abandoned Liberian mine shaft. By Kai KupferschmidtJan. 24,…
Ken Richardson By Douglas StarrJan. 24, 2019 , 8:00 AM In a St. Louis, Missouri, courtroom last summer, David Egilman testified in a lawsuit filed…
A new study finds evidence that good oral hygiene could help prevent Alzheimer’s disease. iStock.com/bernardbodo By Jocelyn KaiserJan. 23, 2019 , 2:00 PM Poor oral…
A child gets an eye exam that could detect retinoblastoma. iStock.com/ferrantraite By Mitch LeslieJan. 23, 2019 , 2:00 PM Curing the childhood eye cancer retinoblastoma…
Davide Bonazzi/@SalzmanArt By Jeffrey BrainardJan. 23, 2019 , 12:05 PM An existential threat. That’s what scientific societies supported by journal subscriptions call Plan S. Introduced…
A viral video drew attention to water woes in the Murray-Darling Basin. Rob McBride/Tolarno Station By Dennis NormileJan. 22, 2019 , 5:30 PM Australians knew…
Shanidar Cave in Iraq once sheltered at least 10 Neanderthals. Georg Kristiansen/Alamy Stock Photo By Elizabeth CulottaJan. 22, 2019 , 3:45 PM For tens of…
Congress is considering spending bills that warn NASA not to exceed a new $8.8 billion cap for the James Webb Space Telescope, now under construction.…
Jair Bolsonaro has said Brazil may withdraw from the Paris agreement. Bruna Prado/Getty Images By Herton EscobarJan. 22, 2019 , 3:25 PM Brazil has long…
A missile target, launched from Kauai in Hawaii in 2018, was destroyed by a sea-launched interceptor. Missile Defense Agency/US Department of Defense By Gabriel PopkinJan.…
Researcher Rámon Gallego of the University of Washington in Seattle collects a water sample for environmental DNA analysis in Hood Canal, Washington. Ryan Kelly By…
[embedded content] By Matthew HutsonJan. 22, 2019 , 8:00 AM Before you run hurdles, you have to learn to crawl, and before you read William…
He Jiankui (center) during a Q&A after his presentation at a meeting in Hong Kong on 28 November. Imaginechina via AP Images By Dennis NormileJan.…
What your friends write on Twitter can reveal a surprising amount of information about you. iStock.com/tomass2015 By Matthew HutsonJan. 21, 2019 , 11:00 AM Companies…
Brazilians, shown here gathering for Carnival, and other Latin Americans have a wide range of skin tones. iStock.com/peeterv By Lizzie WadeJan. 21, 2019 , 5:00…
Hundreds of furloughed workers and others rallied in Washington, D.C. on 10 January to call for an end to the partial shutdown of the U.S.…
(left to right): DAVID MOSKOWITZ; GAO ET AL./SCIENCE 2019; CAVAN SOCIAL/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO By Alex FoxJan. 18, 2019 , 5:15 PM The contiguous United States…
Delayed maintenance work means NASA’s P-3 Orion will miss at least half of its IceBridge campaign to measure Arctic sea ice. Christy Hansen/NASA (CC BY)…
By Carol Cruzan MortonJan. 18, 2019 , 8:00 AM Hairy berries. Supersize seeds. No caffeine. Compared with the beans that supply our daily brew, the wild…
A policeman in Karachi, Pakistan, protects a health worker as she administers a polio vaccine. ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images By Jon CohenJan. 17, 2019 , 6:30…
A caribou that was part of the Southern Selkirks herd, which once traversed the U.S.-Canada border. Biologists captured the last member of the herd this…
A caribou that was part of the Southern Selkirks herd, which once traversed the U.S.-Canada border. Biologists captured the last member of the herd this…
A U.S. judge agrees with research showing that households with noncitizens are much less likely to respond to the 2020 census than other demographic groups.…
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Stuart Rankin It’s incredibly difficult to get an inkling of what is going on inside gas giants Saturn and Jupiter. But with data deliveries from…
Material thousands of kilometers below the clouds of Jupiter and Saturn tugs subtly on orbiting spacecraft, revealing hidden structure and motions. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute By…
Ernest Wright, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio By Paul VoosenJan. 17, 2019 , 2:00 PM It has long been thought that as the…
Gao et al./Science 2019 By Kelly ServickJan. 17, 2019 , 2:00 PM Suppose you’d like to take a close look at a fly brain—an extremely…
By Jeffrey MervisJan. 17, 2019 , 2:00 PM The contractor running a major U.S. ecological research facility has reversed its decision to disband a scientific…
By April ReeseJan. 17, 2019 , 11:45 AM BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT IN UTAH—On a rise with a sweeping view of the Indian Creek valley…
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s compromise Brexit deal was rejected by Parliament. Frank Augstein/AP Photo By Erik StokstadJan. 16, 2019 , 2:55 PM A historic…
By Chris BurnsJan. 16, 2019 , 2:50 PM Instead of relying on a list or rules or training on a massive data set like standard…
Yeast may rely on introns to help them survive hard times. Steve Gschmeissner/Science Source By Mitch LeslieJan. 16, 2019 , 2:30 PM Like deleted scenes…
The normal compound fly eye (left) is marred by cell death in a strain (right) with a mutation causing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. KIRSTIN MAULDING By…
Furloughed from his work on rocket tests, NASA contractor Jack Lyons spends time in his workshop making props for marching bands. David Goldman/AP Photo By…
[embedded content] By Erika K. CarlsonJan. 15, 2019 , 7:01 PM When a hagfish runs into a hungry shark, the eellike creature squirts out a…
Krill feed on phytoplankton and are a critical part of the food web. AUSCAPE INTERNATIONAL PTY LTD/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO By Erik StokstadJan. 15, 2019 ,…
An artist’s impression of a particle collision in CERN’s future collider CERN By Adrian ChoJan. 15, 2019 , 4:55 PM European particle physicists today released…
Ecologists take vegetation measurements in 2018 at NEON’s Toolik Lake site in northern Alaska. THOMAS COLBY WRIGHT By Jeffrey MervisJan. 15, 2019 , 4:50 PM…
Davide Bonazzi/@SalzmanArt By Kai KupferschmidtJan. 15, 2019 , 4:45 PM BERLIN—Three years ago, a group of German libraries, universities, and research institutes teamed up to…
Blood stem cells (depicted here, yellow, in bone marrow) regenerated the immune system after chemotherapy in a new trial for multiple sclerosis. Dennis Kunkel Microscopy/Science…
A member of UNICEF’s Ebola outreach team addresses the public in Beni, a city in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ©…
A new study shows the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, once thought to be stable, may be melting faster than expected. Torsten Blackwood/Pool/Getty Images By Alex…
(left to right): JPL CALTECH/NASA; FRANS LANTING/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE COLLECTION; YVA MOMATIUK AND JOHN EASTCOTT/MINDEN PICTURES By Alex FoxJan. 11, 2019 , 1:45 PM Aging…
Bacteroides are the most common bacteria species found in the human intestinal tract. Dennis Kunkel Microscopy/Science Source By Emily MullinJan. 11, 2019 , 11:50 AM…
AT2018cow, the right-hand of two bright spots down and right of the galactic center, is confounding astronomers. R. MARGUTTI/W. M. KECK OBSERVATORY By Daniel CleryJan.…
A minke whale caught in Japanese coastal waters as part of Japan’s research program is hauled ashore at Kushiro port in Hokkaido. Kyodo/Newscom By Dennis…
OBERLIN.EDU/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) provide free lectures and assignments, and gained global attention for their potential to increase education accessibility. Plagued with…
Chien C. Lee By Sid PerkinsJan. 10, 2019 , 2:00 PM When it comes to floorboards and furniture, termites get a bad rap. But there’s…
The rudimentary nervous system of the warty comb jelly may help resolve when nerve cells arose. Andrey Nekrasov/Alamy Stock Photo By Elizabeth PennisiJan. 10, 2019…
Microbial mats called stromatolites emerged early in life’s history—and still persist at Shark Bay in Australia. FRANS LANTING/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE COLLECTION By Robert F. ServiceJan.…
A NEON scientist outfits a tower in Virginia in 2015. Trevor Frost By Jeffrey MervisJan. 9, 2019 , 5:30 PM A half-billion-dollar ecological observatory being…
An illustration of Voyager 1, now 21.7 billion kilometers away JPL Caltech/NASA By Adrian ChoJan. 9, 2019 , 2:25 PM Humanity’s most far-flung spacecraft, NASA’s…
Blue lapis lazuli particles are seen under the fifth tooth from the left. Christina Warinner By Lizzie WadeJan. 9, 2019 , 2:00 PM One thousand…
When a designer protein (red) binds to immune cell receptors (gray and purple), it ramps up immune activity that kills cancer cells. Ian Haydon/Institute for…
A new Canadian radio telescope in British Columbia has already bagged 13 mysterious radio bursts. Andre Renard/Dunlap Institute/CHIME Collaboration By Daniel CleryJan. 9, 2019 ,…
An Indonesian scientist at work on Borneo. The country’s new index seeks to capture academics’ performance. National Geographic Image Collection/Alamy Stock Photo By Dyna Rochmyaningsih…
North Wind Picture Archives/Alamy Stock Photo By Joshua Rapp LearnJan. 8, 2019 , 4:05 PM Thousands of years before Genghis Khan and his descendants conquered…
Robert Neubecker By Jeffrey MervisJan. 8, 2019 , 2:40 PM The new chairperson of and top Republican on the science committee in the U.S. House…
Andean llamas at Machu Picchu in Peru iStock.com/OGphoto By Lizzie WadeJan. 8, 2019 , 9:50 AM The history of the Andes might well be written…
Congress has refused to give President Donald Trump the funding he wants for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Mark Wilson/Getty Images By David MalakoffJan.…
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center By Sid PerkinsJan. 7, 2019 , 5:15 PM A warm, gaseous planet about three times the diameter of Earth circles…
Patterns of gene expression unite the prairie vole Microtus ochrogaster with other monogamous species, including certain frogs, fish, and birds. Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott/Minden…
Crystal Grant is spending a year in the Netherlands as part of her graduate program at Emory University in Atlanta. Bryan Meltz/Emory photo video By…
Border collies are known for their strong work ethic, even—it seems—when it comes to carrying tennis balls. Mark Raycroft/Minden Pictures By Elizabeth PennisiJan. 7, 2019…
FDNA By Frankie SchembriJan. 7, 2019 , 11:00 AM Rare disorders often show up in someone’s appearance. Individuals with Noonan syndrome—a genetic condition that inhibits…
[embedded content] By Elizabeth PennisiJan. 6, 2019 , 5:30 PM TAMPA, FLORIDA—People break into a run to speed up; sea stars bounce. Until now, researchers…
[embedded content] By Elizabeth PennisiJan. 6, 2019 , 10:30 AM TAMPA, FLORIDA—Half the size of a cigarette and squirmy, the black aquatic worm Lumbriculus variegatus isn’t…
By Elizabeth PennisiJan. 5, 2019 , 1:45 PM TAMPA, FLORIDA—The rapid acceleration of a cheetah chasing down its prey is slow motion compared with the…
William Duke By Jeffrey MervisJan. 4, 2019 , 2:50 PM The U.S. Census Bureau is making waves among social scientists with what it calls a…
Daniel Berning and Josh Gross By Elizabeth PennisiJan. 4, 2019 , 8:45 AM TAMPA, FLORIDA—The pinnacle of beauty to most people is a symmetrical face,…
A new European policy bans the practice of discarding fish, such as this cod. James Boardman/Alamy Stock Photo By Erik StokstadJan. 4, 2019 , 8:30…
Michael Beckwith Plan S, an initiative that requires participating research funders to immediately publish research in an open-access journal or repository, was announced in September…
DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART By Tania RabesandratanaJan. 3, 2019 , 2:00 PM How far will Plan S spread? Since the September 2018 launch of the Europe-backed…
By Meagan CantwellJan. 3, 2019 , 2:00 PM Researchers filmed and analyzed the people-packed corrals at the start of marathons to understand the physics of…
UK Biobank Principal Investigator Rory Collins stands amid stored biospecimens from the project’s half-million participants. NIGEL HILIER By Jocelyn Kaiser, Ann GibbonsJan. 3, 2019 ,…
Among participants in the UK Biobank are people whose Neanderthal DNA predisposes them to traits such as propensity to sunburn, staying up late, depression, smoking,…
Sunflowers are among a number of plants that appear to recognize and help kin. RON STEINER/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO By Elizabeth PennisiJan. 3, 2019 , 12:10…
Kelvin Droegemeier Sue Ogrocki/Associated Press By Jeffrey MervisJan. 3, 2019 , 9:48 AM Last night the U.S. Senate confirmed Kelvin Droegemeier as director of the…
By Jeffrey BrainardJan. 3, 2019 , 8:00 AM Scientists in Europe and the United States face an uncertain political landscape in the new year, which…
A picture of the far side of the moon taken by Chang’e 4 this morning. China National Space Administration By Dennis NormileJan. 3, 2019 , 4:48…
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute By Paul VoosenJan. 2, 2019 , 5:30 PM LAUREL, MARYLAND—Humanity is getting its first good look at…
Hazardous material specialists rescue a doll during a simulated nerve gas attack in San Diego, California. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images By Emily MullinJan. 2,…
Epilepsy patients with electrode implants have aided efforts to decipher speech. WENHT/ISTOCK.COM By Kelly ServickJan. 2, 2019 , 1:30 PM For many people who are…
Hayabusa2 imaged its shadow during a rehearsal descent. JAXA By Dennis NormileJan. 2, 2019 , 12:45 PM YONAGO, JAPAN—Japan’s Hayabusa mission made history in 2010…