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Scientists are developing a multitude of artificial intelligence algorithms to help radiologists, like this one that lights up likely pneumonia in the lungs. Albert Hsiao and…
iStock.com/drante By Matthew HutsonJun. 17, 2019 , 11:05 AM LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA—Robots might not yet make great standup comedians, but computers are learning to predict…
Enrique Ramos/Alamy Stock Photo By Matthew HutsonJun. 17, 2019 , 11:00 AM LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA—Spies may soon have another tool to carry out their shadowy…
(left to right): DREW GURIAN; ISTOCK.COM/ARINDAM GHOSH; FABIO TEIXEIRA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Alex FoxJun. 14, 2019 , 4:15 PM This psychologist explains why people confess to…
A woman at the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda washes her hands with chlorinated water, one of the measures used…
The spine of a dog with spondylosis deformans. Arrows point to signs of the condition. Katherine Latham By David GrimmJun. 14, 2019 , 8:00 AM…
Lydia Polimeni/National Institutes of Health By Jocelyn KaiserJun. 13, 2019 , 9:30 PM To combat sexual harassment in biomedical research, the National Institutes of Health…
A Russian biologist wants to use the in vitro fertilization clinic he works at to create more gene-edited babies. CC STUDIO/Science Source By Jon CohenJun. 13,…
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute We’ve all seen images or animations of hurricanes that color code the wind speeds inside the whirling mass—but it turns out we can…
Brazilian soldiers conduct an operation against drug traffickers in a favela in Rio de Janeiro. FABIO TEIXEIRA/AFP/Getty Images By Herton EscobarJun. 13, 2019 , 1:35…
By David MalakoffJun. 13, 2019 , 12:34 PM Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives moved today to block part of President Donald Trump’s recent…
The marmalade hoverfly, Episyrphus balteatus, pollinates many kinds of plants. Konrad Wothe/Minden Pictures By Erik StokstadJun. 13, 2019 , 11:00 AM Each year, hundreds of…
By Douglas StarrJun. 13, 2019 , 8:00 AM At 16, Huwe Burton confessed to killing his mother. He was still in shock from discovering her…
A new university-pharma alliance will use the genome editor CRISPR (red) to edit DNA (blue and yellow strands) in order to identify drug tragets. Meletios/shutterstock…
National Cancer Institute By Meredith WadmanJun. 12, 2019 , 5:30 PM Nearly one in five employees of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) who…
National Cancer Institute By Meredith WadmanJun. 12, 2019 , 5:30 PM More than one in five employees of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
This false-color photo taken by Landsat-8 on 26 July 2018 captured the rapid development of a “snow swamp” at Kluane National Park in Canada’s Yukon territory. Joshua…
[embedded content] By Andrew LawlerJun. 12, 2019 , 2:00 PM Today, more than 150 million people regularly smoke cannabis, making it one of the world’s…
A device that shines a laser on blood vessels (here, in a mouse) can detect scarce circulating tumor cells. Ekaterina Galanzha/University of Arkansas for Medical…
Better wind data on Hurricane Michael might have shown it would hit the Florida Panhandle. JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGES By Paul VoosenJun.…
The Emory University campus in Atlanta. iStock.com/aimintang By Jeffrey MervisJun. 12, 2019 , 12:00 PM A tenured professor of anesthesiology at Emory University in Atlanta…
Despite surveillance efforts like these at the border of the two countries, Ebola has jumped from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Uganda. Matt…
Renewals of two diabetes grants held by Megan Sykes (right) of Columbia University could be held up by a new federal policy scrutinizing fetal tissue…
Gut bacteria provide a new way to increase the type O blood supply. iStock.com/Arindam Ghosh By Elizabeth PennisiJun. 10, 2019 , 11:00 AM On any…
RBG KEW By Erik StokstadJun. 10, 2019 , 11:00 AM When scientists talk about recent extinctions, birds and mammals get most of the attention. But…
A German survey instrument on Spektr-RG with seven x-ray telescopes has heightened sensitivity. © P.Friedrich/Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching By Daniel CleryJun. 10,…
Millions of people worldwide have type 1 diabetes, including the child shown getting help with an insulin pump. A new clinical trial suggests disease can…
(left to right): ISTOCK.COM/PAVEL1964; ISTOCK.COM/SDOMINICK; STEPHAN SCHMITZ/FOLIO ART By Alex FoxJun. 7, 2019 , 3:45 PM Study of marathon runners reveals a ‘hard limit’ on…
[embedded content] By Jake BuehlerJun. 7, 2019 , 12:25 PM Ants are famous for putting themselves at risk for the wellbeing of their colony, but…
[embedded content] By Erica TennenhouseJun. 7, 2019 , 8:00 AM Like us, fish need oxygen to survive. But to breathe, most pull oxygen-containing water into…
N. Zhou et al., Science Advances 2019 Cheap and easy to make, perovskite minerals have become the wonder material of solar energy. Now, scientists are…
On Borneo for a 2018 expedition to find new species, evolutionary biologist Marta Paterno of the University of Verona in Italy prepares samples for a…
A three-toed sloth at rest. iStock.com/sdominick By Gretchen VogelJun. 6, 2019 , 11:00 AM From elephant-size animals that browsed North American grasslands to moose-size swimmers…
Senator Chuck Grassley (R–IA) chairs the Senate Finance Committee. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Images By Jeffrey MervisJun. 6, 2019 , 10:40 AM Research typically enjoys…
Talk to the hand. Scientists try to debunk idea that finger length can reveal personality and health
By Mitch LeslieJun. 6, 2019 , 8:00 AM If papers published in the past 6 months are right, a single number is enough to show…
Davide Bonazzi/Salzmanart By Jocelyn KaiserJun. 5, 2019 , 7:00 PM Clinical researchers can now share initial versions of their manuscripts through a free preprint server…
By Meredith WadmanJun. 5, 2019 , 2:26 PM After a 9-month review, President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to eliminate some federally funded research that…
Humans’ peak metabolic activity during extraordinary feats of endurance is limited by their biology. iStock.com/Pavel1964 By Michael PriceJun. 5, 2019 , 2:00 PM Athletes who…
Two men found at the Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site in northern Siberia in Russia date to about 32,000 years ago, providing the earliest direct evidence…
Lord Howe Island has reefs, forests, and endemic species threatened by invasive rodents. IAN HUTTON By John PickrellJun. 5, 2019 , 12:45 PM A beguiling,…
The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment has discovered three new pentaquarks. Peter Ginter/CERN By Adrian ChoJun. 5, 2019 , 12:10 PM Four years ago, when…
Audrey Velasco By Helen SantoroJun. 5, 2019 , 11:00 AM Five hundred meters below the ocean’s surface off the coast of California lives a creepy…
Jose Montoya had been at Stanford’s School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, for nearly 30 years. Wikimedia Commons/(CC BY-SA 3.0) By Meredith WadmanJun. 4,…
When combined with polarizing filters, 3D-printed perovskite nanowires produce adjustable multicolor displays. N. Zhou et al., Sci. Adv. 5, EAAV8141 (2019) By Robert F. ServiceJun.…
Lawmakers have dropped language in a draft spending bill that bars embryo editing to create a baby. Claude Cortier/Science Source By Jocelyn KaiserJun. 4, 2019…
A 2013 case on human gene patenting drew demonstrators to the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images By Kelly ServickJun. 4, 2019 ,…
[embedded content] By Virginia MorellJun. 3, 2019 , 3:00 PM Most of us can look at two meal plates and easily tell which one has…
A Huawei Technologies booth at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, earlier this year. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg/Getty Images By Jeffrey MervisJun. 3,…
As these sponges filter water for food, they collect DNA that can be used for biodiversity surveys. A. Riesgo By Elizabeth PennisiJun. 3, 2019 ,…
For the first time since its founding in 1863, the National Academy of Sciences will allow expulsion of members for serious offenses including sexual harassment.…
Astrobotic’s Peregrine is one of three landers selected to put experiments on the moon for NASA. ASTROBOTIC TECHNOLOGY By Paul VoosenMay. 31, 2019 , 3:55…
The headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Rob Crandall/Alamy Stock Photo By Corbin Hiar, E&E NewsMay. 31, 2019 , 3:40 PM Originally…
(Left to right): ISTOCK.COM/GOINYK; NASA/SDO/LMSAL; TON KOENE/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO By Alex FoxMay. 31, 2019 , 2:35 PM Gut bacteria may contribute to autism symptoms, mouse…
#MeTooSTEM founder BethAnn McLaughlin is under fire for her management of the organization. Lane Turner/The Boston Globe/Getty Images By Meredith WadmanMay. 31, 2019 , 1:30 PM…
[embedded content] By David GrimmMay. 31, 2019 , 12:00 PM Ever since video cameras became ultraportable, scientists have strapped them onto animals from sheep to…
BENEDETTO CRISTOFANI/SALZMAN ART By Tania RabesandratanaMay. 30, 2019 , 7:01 PM Plan S, the program to crack down on scientific journals’ paywalls led by European…
Representative Mikie Sherrill (D–NJ) on Capitol Hill earlier this month Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call By Jeffrey MervisMay. 30, 2019 , 5:35 PM Those who complain that…
By Mara HvistendahlMay. 30, 2019 , 2:30 PM MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, says it has concluded an investigation of the last of…
Deep Mind Up until this year, most U.S. graduate programs in the sciences required the General Record Examination from applicants. But concerns about what the…
DeepMind’s bots work in pairs to capture the opposing team’s flag on indoor and outdoor maps in Quake III Arena. DeepMind By Edd GentMay. 30,…
Insecticide resistance is weakening the protective effect of bed nets against malaria. SARAH WEISER By Gretchen VogelMay. 30, 2019 , 2:00 PM In the 1980s,…
ton koene/Alamy Stock Photo By Lizzie WadeMay. 30, 2019 , 2:00 PM About 5500 years ago—around the same time herding of animals like cattle, sheep,…
By Sarah ScolesMay. 30, 2019 , 2:00 PM BOULDER, COLORADO—For all of February the sun is nearly spotless, a smooth circle filled in with a…
Serkan Golge, seen here speaking to reporters today, was released hours after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to his Turkish colleague Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Cem…
Mice colonized with microbes from people with autism showed autismlike symptoms, including decreased social behavior. iStock.com/goinyk By Kelly ServickMay. 30, 2019 , 11:00 AM Genes…
iStock.com/bluestocking By Katie LanginMay. 29, 2019 , 4:25 PM For decades, one standardized test has been key to admission to U.S. science graduate programs: the…
An artist’s concept of the Europa lander, which is meant to probe the icy moon for signs of life. NASA/JPL-Caltech By Paul VoosenMay. 29, 2019…
The Cato Institute headquarters in Washington, D.C. B. Christopher/Alamy Stock Photo By Scott Waldman, E&E NewsMay. 29, 2019 , 2:45 PM Originally published by E&E…
The All of Us project hasn’t been able to recruit at events like the Northern Navajo Nation Fair in Shiprock, New Mexico. AMANDA VOISARD/MESA7 MEDIA…
By Jeffrey MervisMay. 29, 2019 , 12:35 PM A major scientific society has banned employees of Huawei, the Chinese communications giant, from reviewing submissions to…
Cinyee Chiu and Edwin Tse/Spectrum By George Musser, SpectrumMay. 29, 2019 , 12:10 PM Originally published on Spectrum Even the slightest touch can consume Kirsten Lindsmith’s…
By David MalakoffMay. 28, 2019 , 6:00 PM A physicist who spent 2 decades at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in…
Nick Scott/Alamy Stock Photo By Paul VoosenMay. 28, 2019 , 4:00 PM The Romantic poets may have it right: Life is simply gloomier in the…
President Trump hasn’t objected to a congressional rescue of NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, which he has proposed killing. NASA WFIRST Project/Dominic Benford from…
Elephants at Tarangire National Park in Tanzania Colin Beale By Erik StokstadMay. 28, 2019 , 11:00 AM Elephant poaching in Africa has dropped significantly from…
The European Parliament’s debating chamber in Strassburg, France. DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 By Tania RabesandratanaMay. 28, 2019 , 3:53 AM Although populist and euroskeptic…
dbimages/Alamy Stock Photo By Erik StokstadMay. 27, 2019 , 3:00 PM The number of boats harvesting seafood has increased significantly since the middle of the…
Julia Fischer By Alex FoxMay. 27, 2019 , 11:00 AM Humans have long looked for the origins of language in our primate cousins. But now,…
(Left to right): TANE SINCLAIR-TAYLOR; ASHLEY COOPER PICS/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; DANIELE MATTIOL By Alex FoxMay. 24, 2019 , 3:00 PM These tiny, mysterious fish may…
Lawmakers have dropped language in a draft spending bill that bars embryo editing to create a baby. Claude Cortier/Science Source By Jocelyn KaiserMay. 24, 2019…
Li Xiao-Jiang (left) and Li Shihua (right). courtesy of Xiao-Jiang Li By Jon CohenMay. 24, 2019 , 1:55 PM A researcher terminated by Emory University…
The Notre Dame Cathedral’s altar after the April fire. Scientists have started an association to help with the restoration process. Philippe Lopez/Pool via REUTERS By…
A new study finds that, in general, former National Football League pros die earlier than their baseball-playing peers. AP Photo/Morry Gash By Meredith WadmanMay. 24, 2019…
A lawsuit targets a global health institute and the dean of the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City, which is part of the…
By David MalakoffMay. 23, 2019 , 3:59 PM Emory University has ousted two veteran biomedical researchers and shuttered their laboratory after the National Institutes of…
By Joshua SokolMay. 23, 2019 , 2:00 PM TENGCHONG, CHINA—On an overcast spring morning, a mosaic of life in the heyday of the dinosaurs takes…
Redeye gobies (Bryaninops natans) live fast and die young, fueling reef ecosystems. Tane Sinclair-Taylor By Elizabeth PennisiMay. 23, 2019 , 2:00 PM If a snorkeler…
A sample of a new wood that could reduce cooling costs. University of Maryland By Robert F. ServiceMay. 23, 2019 , 2:00 PM Households in…
Soot from industry in Europe and the United States drove Arctic warming a century ago. Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images By Paul VoosenMay. 23, 2019 ,…
Davide Bonazzi/Salzman Art By David AdamMay. 23, 2019 , 10:00 AM Behavior change is difficult—just ask any psychologist. A new study shows behavior change among…
Paleobotanist Scott Wing stands in wintry Wyoming badlands, where alligators swam 56 million years ago. IRA BLOCK By Paul VoosenMay. 22, 2019 , 2:25 PM…
A farmer in France sprays glyphosate to ready a field for planting. The European Union has approved glyphosate use until 2022, but bad publicity is…
Banned trichlorofluoromethane contributed to the rapid growth of Earth’s ozone hole. TOMS science team & and the Scientific Visualization Studio/NASA/GSFC By Dennis NormileMay. 22, 2019…
In a simulated event, the track of a decay particle called a muon (red), displaced slightly from the center of particle collisions, could be a…
A lawsuit targets a global health institute and the dean of the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City, which is part of the…
By Kellie Lunney, E&E NewsMay. 21, 2019 , 3:25 PM Originally published by Greenwire Appropriators in the U.S. House of Representatives would ensure federal lands…
Multibeam sonar waves, reflecting off the sea floor near the French island of Mayotte, reveal the outline of an 800-meter-tall volcano (red) and a rising…
Matt9122/shutterstock.com By Alex FoxMay. 21, 2019 , 12:00 PM Every fall, birders along North America’s Gulf Coast eagerly anticipate the arrival of a variety of…
A young lion grapples with a Cape porcupine in South Africa’s Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. J. Sneesby/B. Wilkins/Getty Images By Rachel CrowellMay. 21, 2019 , 11:00…
Synchrotron x-ray scans of a 3-million-year-old mouse fossil reveal a chemical trace of the pigment pheomelanin (bright yellow here). University of Manchester By Gretchen VogelMay.…
Rob Crandall/Alamy Stock Photo By Corbin Hiar, E&E News, Ariel Wittenberg, E&E NewsMay. 20, 2019 , 3:45 PM Originally published by E&E News Despite repeatedly…
Ashley Cooper pics/Alamy Stock Photo By Helen SantoroMay. 20, 2019 , 12:30 PM Plastic makes up nearly 70% of all ocean litter, putting countless aquatic…
Martin Surbeck/Kokolopori Bonobo Research By Michael PriceMay. 20, 2019 , 11:00 AM In what may be the bonobo take on a fussy mom giving her…
(left to right): JURGEN OTTO; KABIR GABRIEL PEAY; REPTILES4ALL/SHUTTERSTOCK By Alex FoxMay. 17, 2019 , 4:25 PM The ‘superblack’ patches on these spiders make their…
iStock.com/uschools By Science News StaffMay. 17, 2019 , 3:25 PM The National Science Foundation (NSF) would get a 7% budget increase, and NASA a 3.8%…
By Robert F. ServiceMay. 17, 2019 , 2:40 PM The U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Maryland, will halt funding next year for its…
A computer-generated image of a B cell Science Picture Co/Science Source By Mitch LeslieMay. 17, 2019 , 2:00 PM Researchers may have demonstrated a novel…
Opik Ahkinga Brendan Smith/North Pacific Research Board By Warren CornwallMay. 17, 2019 , 12:30 PM Over the past two winters, ice cover in the Bering…
By Herton EscobarMay. 17, 2019 , 6:12 AM Thousands of scientists, educators and students swamped the streets of Brazil this week to protest cuts in education and research funding.…
Bedbugs often parasitize bats, but these flying mammals weren’t the insects’ first love. Mark Chappell/University of California, Riverside By Elizabeth PennisiMay. 16, 2019 , 2:15…
A small group of Michigan residents, including (right to left) Lynn McIntosh, A. J. Birkbeck, Janice Tompkins, and Rick Rediske, tracked widespread contamination from a…
Gran Sasso National Laboratory, built under a mountain in Italy, is closing two of its big physics experiments because of environmental concerns. Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images…
Researchers tracked how much people ate on “ultraprocessed” (left) and “minimally processed” (right) diets that were matched for calories and nutrients. HALL ET AL./CELL METABOLISM…
reptiles4all/Shutterstock By Eric HandMay. 15, 2019 , 7:01 PM In 1970, when David Warrell was a young hospital clinician in northern Nigeria, he faced three…
Senator Rob Portman (R–OH) hopes to strike a compromise on new rules for government advisory panels. Joshua Morrison/The News via AP By Jeffrey MervisMay. 15,…
Melting sea ice drifts in the Bering Sea off the coast of Russia in 2016. TIM PEAKE/ESA/NASA VIA GETTY IMAGES By Warren CornwallMay. 15, 2019…
ILLUSTRATION: DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART By Jeffrey BrainardMay. 15, 2019 , 1:40 PM Plan S, the funder-backed scheme to require free online access to scientific literature,…
A fungus known as a Dermocybe forms part of the underground wood wide web that stitches together California’s forests. Kabir Gabriel Peay By Gabriel PopkinMay.…
A greater bilby in its burrow. Researchers have been trying to teach the threatened animals to fear cats by exposing them to the predators under…
Jurgen Otto By Helen SantoroMay. 14, 2019 , 7:01 PM Male peacock spiders attract mates through elaborate dances that show off their brilliant colors. It’s…
By David MalakoffMay. 14, 2019 , 4:40 PM Key research programs at the energy and interior departments would get budget increases–not deep cuts proposed by…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks at lab-grown minibrains at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. David Ausserhofer/MDC By Kai KupferschmidtMay. 14, 2019 ,…
A man transports piglets in Thanh Hoa province in Vietnam, a country heavily affected by African swine fever where pork accounts for three-quarters of the…
An artificial intelligence (AI) trained on the photos of a dog, crab, and duck (top) would be vulnerable to deception because these photos contain subtle…
Mauro Ferrari will be the next head of the European Research Council in Brussels. European Research Council By Tania RabesandratanaMay. 14, 2019 , 12:10 PM Nanomedicine…
Hiromi Takahashi By Helen SantoroMay. 14, 2019 , 7:00 AM If you ever come across a group of snails, chances are most of their shells…
By Jeffrey MervisMay. 13, 2019 , 5:30 PM The much-admired system to review grant proposals at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland,…
S. I. Han By Helen SantoroMay. 13, 2019 , 3:00 PM When we think of how spiders hunt, we usually picture intricate webs that can…
Bo Wang By Joshua SokolMay. 13, 2019 , 3:00 PM The latest discovery in a cache of ancient Burmese amber has revealed something completely unexpected:…
guvendemir/iStockPhoto By Katie LanginMay. 13, 2019 , 1:05 PM In 2016, two seemingly unrelated events conspired to make Kim Cobb confront her personal carbon footprint.…
bigalia/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) By Rachel FrittsMay. 10, 2019 , 5:11 PM Our reliance on sand is staggering—by volume, the amount we use is second…
(left to right): JUAN V. ALBARRACIN-JORDAN AND JOSÉ M. CAPRILES; HOLLY ANDRES; JOHN LEHMANN By Alex FoxMay. 10, 2019 , 4:45 PM Archaeologists find richest…
David Sullivan By Matthew HutsonMay. 10, 2019 , 3:20 PM NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA—Computers can master some tasks—like playing a game of Go—through trial and error.…
Thomas Hawk/Flickr Dog cognition and social behavior have hogged the scientific limelight for years—showing in study after study that canines have social skills essential to…
Strange and noisy objects like a fan with streamers often frighten cats. But they can calm down by picking up on humans’ emotional cues, as…
Z. Musilova, Et. Al, Science (2019) By Elizabeth PennisiMay. 9, 2019 , 2:00 PM When the ancestors of cave fish and certain crickets moved into…
Stef Bokhorst By Helen SantoroMay. 9, 2019 , 11:00 AM In the desolate Antarctic landscape, life is hard to come by—unless you’re near some seal…
The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us health study aims to enroll 1 million participants, including children, within 6 years. Dake Kang/AP Photo By Jocelyn…
He Jiankui speaks at a 2018 conference in Hong Kong, China, where he gave a public account of creating the first gene-edited human babies. Anthony…
A Samsung Galaxy Note 7 after its lithium-ion battery caught fire. Shawn L. Minter/AP By Robert F. ServiceMay. 8, 2019 , 2:10 PM Lithium-ion batteries…
iStock.com/nycshooter By Alex FoxMay. 8, 2019 , 2:00 PM It’s no news to San Francisco, California, residents that traffic is getting worse. Now, a new…
Free-flowing rivers are increasingly threatened by dams, levees, and water diversions, such as for these shrimp farms in Ecuador. © Antonio Busiello/WWF-U.S. By Elizabeth PennisiMay.…
An artist’s illustration of Ambopteryx Min Wang/Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology/Chinese Academy of Sciences By John PickrellMay. 8, 2019 , 1:00 PM A number of…
Isabelle Carnell (second from right) with her doctor, Helen Spencer (left); phage researcher Graham Hatfull (second from left); and her mother (right). HELEN SPENCER By…
iStock.com/dane_mark By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelMay. 7, 2019 , 3:05 PM While DNA testing upends the practice of medicine, U.S. laws aren’t keeping pace. That’s one message…
More than 110,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have received an experimental Ebola vaccine, which appears to have helped slow spread of…
Stevens Institute of Technology By Rachel CrowellMay. 7, 2019 , 12:30 PM To grow the world’s wheat, corn, and beans, farmers need phosphorus—an essential nutrient…
Michelle Dardengo was the first patient enrolled in the first human trial of a promising new therapy against Huntington disease. John Lehmann By Meredith WadmanMay.…
By Michael PriceMay. 6, 2019 , 3:00 PM The 15 men, women, and children discovered in a 5000-year-old mass grave near the southern Polish village…
Researchers discovered the mind-altering kit in the Cueva del Chileno rock shelter, high in the Bolivian Andes. Juan V. Albarracin-Jordan and José M. Capriles By…
Black rhinos, poached for their horns, are just one of some 1 million species that new report warns are at risk of extinction. Mint Images /…
(left to right): KELVIN AITKEN/VWPICS VIA AP IMAGES; IAN ALLEN; NATIONAL PARKS OF LAKE SUPERIOR FOUNDATION By Alex FoxMay. 3, 2019 , 1:20 PM Researchers…
German research minister Anja Karliczek helped negotiate a budget deal with steady rises for science. Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Gretchen VogelMay. 3, 2019 ,…
Andrei Stanescu/Alamy Stock Photo By David AdamMay. 3, 2019 , 8:00 AM An attempt to make Yosemite National Park’s famed 2700-meter-high Half Dome rock formation…
A boy with X-linked myotubular myopathy. Gene therapy is helping some patients breathe without a ventilator. Audentes Therapeutics By Jocelyn KaiserMay. 2, 2019 , 5:20…
Math may have caught up with the swirling mergers of black holes like the one in this simulation. R. HURT/CALTECH-JPL By Adrian ChoMay. 2, 2019…
A lawsuit targets a global health institute and the dean of the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City, which is part of the…
The National Institute of Health’s in-house research program plans to limit the terms of midlevel managers, in part so that more women can move into…
Jaredzimmerman (WMF)/Yves Klein Humans have sought new materials to make elusive blue pigments for millennia—with mixed success. Today, scientists are tackling this blue-hued problem from…
Meet the blue crew, scientists trying to give food, flowers, and more a color rarely found in nature
Meet the blue crew, scientists trying to give food, flowers, and more a color rarely found in nature
The impossible flower Blue roses are the stuff of poems. Scientists are trying to make them reality KYOTO, JAPAN—In 2004, Japanese researchers unveiled what they…
Earth-observing instruments roost on a platform attached to a Japanese module. NASA By Paul VoosenMay. 2, 2019 , 12:05 PM The International Space Station (ISS)…
Senator Chuck Grassley (R–IA) wants U.S. research agencies to pay more attention to foreign collaborations. Stefani Reynolds/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Jeffrey MervisMay. 2, 2019 , 11:45…
Modern Mongolian herders depend on horses much the way their ancestors did. Ludovic Orlando By Elizabeth PennisiMay. 2, 2019 , 11:35 AM When Ludovic Orlando…
Based on feedback from a monkey neuron, an artificial intelligence algorithm created this weird monkey-gnome. Ponce, Xiao, and Schade et al. Cell (2019) Adapted by E.Petersen/SCIENCE…
A new injectable gel could help repair damaged soft tissues. Li et al./Science Translational Medicine By Robert F. ServiceMay. 1, 2019 , 4:30 PM Car…
Carsten Egevang By Jake BuehlerMay. 1, 2019 , 3:05 PM Low genetic diversity—often brought on by a mass die-off or inbreeding—has been considered a death…
Opposite approaches to altering the activity of vasopressin in the brain improved some social deficits in people with autism. Drotyk Roman/shutterstock.com By Kelly ServickMay. 1,…
As it was domesticated, the African yam got bigger, starchier, and more regular in shape. SIA KAMBOU/AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Elizabeth PennisiMay. 1, 2019 , 2:00…
Ultra-thin electrical probes (red) integrated seamlessly with neurons (green) in a mouse brain. Xiao Yang/Lieber Group/Harvard University By Kelly ServickMay. 1, 2019 , 1:45 PM…
A jawbone was found by a Chinese monk in a holy cave high on the Tibetan Plateau. DONGJU ZHANG/LANZHOU UNIVERSITY By Ann GibbonsMay. 1, 2019…
Kelvin Droegemeier in his office next to the White House Stephen Voss By Jeffrey MervisMay. 1, 2019 , 12:55 PM U.S. academic scientists and university…
The statue of Albert Einstein outside the headquarters of the U.S. National Academies in Washington, D.C. AJ Mast/AP Images By Meredith WadmanApr. 30, 2019 ,…
Marchers flooded the streets of Buenos Aires today to protest President Mauricio Macri’s austerity measures. Natacha Pisarenko/AP PHOTO By Lindzi WesselApr. 30, 2019 , 4:00…
By David MalakoffApr. 30, 2019 , 3:55 PM Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives want to bring back Congress’s long-dead science advice office. A…
Daiju Azuma/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA) By Rachel FrittsApr. 30, 2019 , 12:20 PM Amphipods—small, shrimplike crustaceans in most aquatic ecosystems—start to fall apart once they…
Chironex fleckeri is one of 51 known species of box jellyfish, whose venom is among the world’s deadliest. Kelvin Aitken/VWPics via AP Images By Bethany…
A male wolf from Michipicoten, Canada, heads into its new home on Isle Royale in Michigan last month. National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation By…
iStock.com/WLDavies By Jocelyn KaiserApr. 29, 2019 , 6:10 PM A spending panel in the U.S. House of Representatives has proposed giving the National Institutes of…
Muntaser Ibrahim says he was “really moved by the extent of international solidarity from the scientific community” during his imprisonment. Gamal Osman By Linda NordlingApr. 29,…
National Institutes of Health By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelApr. 29, 2019 , 12:35 PM Two critical care physicians at the National Institute of Health (NIH) are being…
[embedded content] By Helen SantoroApr. 29, 2019 , 11:00 AM Deep in the mud of the Mediterranean Sea, scientists have caught microscopic protists dancing to…
iStock.com/dane_mark By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelApr. 26, 2019 , 4:30 PM As DNA testing gallops ahead, doctors face wrenching questions about legal risks, protecting patients’ privacy, and…
Stewart Finlayson By Michael PriceApr. 26, 2019 , 1:05 PM The golden eagle has been hunted and revered by human cultures for thousands of years.…
The main campus of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas Baylor College of Medicine By Jeffrey MervisApr. 26, 2019 , 11:40 AM Adam…
(left to right): NARAYAN MAHARJAN/PACIFIC PRESS/LIGHTROCKET/GETTY IMAGES; SANTIAGO BORJA; HOUSTON CHRONICLE By Alex FoxApr. 26, 2019 , 11:30 AM Global warming may boost economic inequality…
The Department of Defense has been Jason’s sponsor from the start. iStock.com/icholakov By Jeffrey MervisApr. 26, 2019 , 10:00 AM The National Nuclear Security Administration…
Parts of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have been opened to oil drilling after a decadeslong battle. The Asahi Shimbun/Contributor By Adam Aton, E&E NewsApr.…
Carlos Delgado/Wikipedia; Matthias Ripp/Flickr Noncancerous tumors of the uterus—also known as fibroids—are extremely common in women. One risk factor, according to the scientific literature, is…
Waves in the stormy Southern Ocean have grown an average of 30 centimeters since 1985. iStock.com/Bobbushphoto By Colin BarrasApr. 25, 2019 , 2:05 PM The…
Pools of water inside a gamma ray observatory’s central building detect particles from air showers. INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS/CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES By Dennis…
By Eli KintischApr. 25, 2019 , 2:00 PM Teenagers armed with AK-47s stood guard as Lockheed pilot Ron Williams taxied a NASA research jet down…
CJG-Technology/Alamy Stock Photo By Scott Waldman, E&E NewsApr. 25, 2019 , 1:55 PM Originally published by E&E News Facebook’s newest fact checking partner is connected…
Sticky molecules could help soybean plants fight off a fungus even when it rains. Dan Ross/shutterstock.com By Erik StokstadApr. 25, 2019 , 12:10 PM Many…
A European funder has taken action against U.K. researchers in advance of Brexit. iStock.com/rami_hakala By Erik StokstadApr. 25, 2019 , 11:05 AM The prospect of…
Emperor penguins have recently abandoned this major breeding site in Antarctica because of unsteady sea ice. Christopher Walton By Erik StokstadApr. 24, 2019 , 7:00 PM…
A patch of lab-grown human heart tissue (left) has holes near its edges to make it easier to attach to a damaged heart. A magnified…
Parents brought pictures of children immunized with Dengvaxia to a 2018 hearing at the Philippine Senate. NOEL CELIS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Fatima ArkinApr. 24, 2019 ,…
imageBROKER/Alamy Stock Photo By Kelly ServickApr. 24, 2019 , 2:00 PM It can make a fan’s blood boil: Two players lunge for a soccer ball,…
By Alex FoxApr. 24, 2019 , 2:00 PM Tiny robot swarms that deliver drugs and help perform operations inside the body have long been a…