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An artist’s conception of the sauropod Camarasaurus. Dorling Kindersley/Science Source By John PickrellOct. 10, 2019 , 2:15 AM BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA —Typically taller than four elephants…
Mila Makovec (right) has had fewer seizures since she began to receive a drug tailored to the mutation that causes her brain disease. Julie Afflerbaugh…
A man blinded by trachoma pauses in Laikala, Tanzania. The disorder is caused by a bacterial infection that scars the eyelid. Joe McNally/Getty Images By…
Administrators at the National Institutes of Health’s Building One in Bethesda, Maryland, say they want more female and minority applicants for the prestigious “high risk,…
The NenuFAR array in France will look for radio signals from hot Jupiters, exoplanets that orbit their star closely. © LAURENT DENIS/STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE…
Stephen Thomas (center) is a researcher at the University of Maryland in College Park who helps train barbers to be health advocates for their customers.…
Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Science News StaffOct. 9, 2019 , 6:20 AM You probably have evidence of a Nobel Prize in your pocket. This year’s…
Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Science News StaffOct. 9, 2019 , 6:20 AM The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to chemists who developed…
By Gretchen VogelOct. 8, 2019 , 10:15 PM In the bowels of Yale University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, Jasmina Wiemann yanks open a drawer…
A male Kirtland’s warbler sings its song. G. Ronald Austing/Science Source By Michael Doyle, E&E NewsOct. 8, 2019 , 2:25 PM Originally published by E&E…
Eyal Bartov/Alamy Stock Photo By Elizabeth PennisiOct. 8, 2019 , 2:15 PM There’s no better way to eat a fresh tomato than by adding a…
Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Science News StaffOct. 8, 2019 , 6:08 AM The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for…
AI-equipped rovers could offer psychologists a new—and highly malleable—model of the brain. William Hahn/Florida Atlantic University By Kelly ServickOct. 7, 2019 , 4:15 PM WASHINGTON,…
Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Oct. 7, 2019 , 6:00 AM The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for their…
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab has been roiled by controversy. ES Tech Archive/Alamy Stock Photo By Meredith WadmanOct. 4, 2019 , 5:15 PM The…
(Left to right) : DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMANART; Gallery of Space Time Travel/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic; NOBEASTSOFIERCE/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM By Eva FrederickOct. 4, 2019 , 4:10 PM…
DOE’s annual budget for fiscal 2020 could approach $40 billion — a nearly 25% increase from when Perry took the helm in fiscal 2017. That’s…
Malte Mueller/Getty Images By Jocelyn KaiserOct. 4, 2019 , 3:15 PM The Human Genome Project’s completion in 2003 brought hope that geneticists would soon uncover…
A section of papyrus is imaged in a mobile laboratory in Italy’s national library in Naples. K. Fleischer By Eva FrederickOct. 4, 2019 , 2:00…
hdagli/iStockPhoto By Eva FrederickOct. 4, 2019 , 11:20 AM Yellow is usually the color of happy, joyful emotions. But according to a new study, not…
Jim Brendon/Flickr Host Sarah Crespi talks with undergraduate student Micheal Munson from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, about a smartphone app that scans photos in…
Hideki Umehata By Adrian ChoOct. 3, 2019 , 2:20 PM According to the prevailing theory of cosmology, every galaxy lies embedded in a vast network…
By Erik StokstadOct. 3, 2019 , 1:10 PM On 23 June 2016, 34 million U.K. citizens took to the polls to vote on a simple,…
New results suggest sugars bind to certain RNAs, but just why remains unclear. nobeastsofierce/shutterstock.com By Robert F. ServiceOct. 2, 2019 , 5:55 PM Sugar isn’t…
At the European Research and Innovation Days, participants sat down to “codesign” Horizon Europe. European Commission By Tania RabesandratanaOct. 2, 2019 , 1:45 PM BRUSSLES—”We…
A female Anopheles gambiae mosquito—a species that carries the malaria parasite in Africa. The Natural History Museum, London/Science Source By Meredith WadmanOct. 2, 2019 ,…
Modifying a gene in this tiny fruit fly revealed how the monarch butterfly it’s crawling on thrives on a poisonous plant. Julianne Pelaez By Elizabeth…
© Archeodunum SAS/Gourvennec Michaël By Ann GibbonsOct. 2, 2019 , 5:00 AM In the 14th century, the Black Death wiped out as much as 60%…
iStock.com/diego_cervo By Kelly ServickOct. 1, 2019 , 7:01 PM The brain has a way of repurposing unused real estate. When a sense like sight is…
Indonesian firefighters try to douse a peatland fire in Riau province on northern Sumatra on 31 July. WAHYUDI/AFP/Getty Images By Dennis NormileOct. 1, 2019 ,…
Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA By Daniel CleryOct. 1, 2019 , 2:00 PM Just weeks after the discovery of the second-ever comet from outside of our solar system…
Oxitec has released genetically engineered mosquitoes to reduce wild populations of Aedes aegypti (above), a species that carries Zika and other viruses. CDC/James Gathany/Science Source…
Ivan Kuzmin/Science Source By Eva FrederickOct. 1, 2019 , 10:20 AM As the weather cools, one species of squirrel in the U.S. Midwest is gearing…
National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health By Jocelyn KaiserSep. 30, 2019 , 5:20 PM Financial conflicts of interest that could bias researchers funded…
DNA sequencing advances have found evidence of many new microbes, but they have been difficult to fish from their complex microbiomes and grown in labs.…
Turkish scientist Bülent Şık has studied contamination in the Ergene River Basin in Turkey’s Edirne province. KENAN KAYA/Alamy Stock Photo By Kristen McTighe Sep. 27,…
(left to right): LIGHTFIELD STUDIOS/SUTTERSTOCK.COM; RUALDO MENEGAT; WARREN CORNWALL By Eva FrederickSep. 27, 2019 , 3:10 PM Researchers can guess where you’re from by how…
Gallery of Space Time Travel/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic By Sid PerkinsSep. 27, 2019 , 1:10 PM For nearly 5 years, growing numbers of…
DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART By Jeffrey MervisSep. 27, 2019 , 11:10 AM The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) thinks it may have figured out how…
[embedded content] By Edd GentSep. 27, 2019 , 8:00 AM When it comes to teaching basketball players how to execute a winning drive to the…
Jennifer Gruhn On this week’s show, Senior News Correspondent Jeffrey Mervis talks with host Sarah Crespi about a stalled Facebook plan to release user data…
By Warren CornwallSep. 26, 2019 , 2:00 PM It’s hard to think small in Alaska. The largest of the United States is home to North…
Researchers have used ultrasound to detect gene activity in tumors like this one, which was imaged with an older flourescent technique. A. Farhadi et al.,…
Ellen Damschen By Erik StokstadSep. 26, 2019 , 2:00 PM Loss of habitat drives most extinctions. When farms or roads carve forests or fields into…
Guillem Anglada-Escude/IEEC/Science Wave/SpaceEngine.org By Sid PerkinsSep. 26, 2019 , 2:00 PM A solar system 31 light-years away is challenging astronomers’ theories about how some types…
A correction posted on the Biology Letters website says this collage provides evidence of the number of lionfish used in an experiment in an Australian…
Chris Austin says the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, has begun to streamline drug development. NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES/FLICKR/CC…
An ancestry database helped police identify Joseph DeAngelo, who faces charges as the Golden State Killer. FRED GREAVES/REUTERS/Newscom By Jocelyn KaiserSep. 25, 2019 , 1:55…
An ancestry database helped police identify Joseph DeAngelo, who faces charges as the Golden State Killer. FRED GREAVES/REUTERS/Newscom By Jocelyn KaiserSep. 25, 2019 , 1:55…
Katharina Rebay-Salisbury By Lizzie WadeSep. 25, 2019 , 1:00 PM For decades, archaeologists weren’t sure what to make of peculiar clay vessels that kept turning…
As permafrost thaws, riverbanks in Alaska are slumping, releasing long-sequestered carbon. DESIGN PICS INC/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE By Paul VoosenSep. 25, 2019 , 5:00 AM Water,…
Scott Egan, Kelly Weinersmith, Sean Liu, Ryan Ridenbaugh, Y. Miles Zhang, Andrew Forbes/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY) By Eva FrederickSep. 24, 2019 , 7:01 PM There…
LightField Studios/sutterstock.com By Eva FrederickSep. 24, 2019 , 7:01 PM Whether you see red, feel blue, or go green with envy may depend on what…
The impact crater in Khan Shaykhun, Syria, believed to be the source of the sarin that killed more than 80 people. OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP/Getty Images…
Facebook employees work to reduce the spread of misinformation that could influence elections. NOAH BERGER/AFP/Getty Images By Jeffrey MervisSep. 24, 2019 , 4:50 PM Gary…
Rualdo Menegat By Sid PerkinsSep. 24, 2019 , 1:20 PM Archaeologists and architects alike have long wondered why 15th century Incans built the grand citadel…
Google researchers in Santa Barbara say their advance may lead to near-term applications of quantum computers. iStock.com/JHVEPhoto By Adrian ChoSep. 23, 2019 , 5:27 PM…
Monterey Bay Aquarium By Eva FrederickSep. 23, 2019 , 4:25 PM Stranded or orphaned baby sea otters have been given a new lease on life—and…
Representative Mark Takano (D–CA) says, “Intellectual property rights should not be able to trump due process.” AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite By Catherine MatacicSep. 23, 2019…
By Paul VoosenSep. 23, 2019 , 2:15 PM NASA is moving forward with plans to launch an infrared telescope that could detect asteroids on a…
Graduate students at Columbia University went on strike in 2018 after the university refused to recognize their union. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews By Katie LanginSep. 20,…
LEFT TO RIGHT: NASA; Benedetto Cristofani/Salzmanart; PeopleImages/iStockPhoto By Eva FrederickSep. 20, 2019 , 2:10 PM This sulfur-spewing Russian volcano is turning sunsets purple Sunrise and…
Jeffrey Epstein (left) and artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky (right), whom Epstein viewed as a trusted scientific adviser Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images By Jeffrey MervisSep.…
Andrew Wheeler, acting administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Cliff Owen/AP photo By Sean Reilly, E&E NewsSep. 19, 2019 , 2:35 PM Originally published…
On this week’s show, science journalist Josh Sokol talks about a global cooling event sparked by space dust that lead to a huge shift in…
An Indian paramilitary trooper stands guard in the city of Rinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir. Yawar Nazir/ Getty Images By Sanjay KumarSep. 19, 2019 , 2:20 PM…
Shorebirds such as sanderlings may be dwindling because of habitat loss. TIM GRAHAM/GETTY IMAGES By Elizabeth PennisiSep. 19, 2019 , 2:00 PM North America’s birds…
Some strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae in the gut can turn starchy and sugary foods into alcohol. Ami Images/Science Source By Jon CohenSep. 19, 2019 ,…
This artist’s reconstruction, based on anatomical estimates from a new method, shows the face of a Denisovan girl from Siberia in Russia. MAAYAN HAREL By…
By Robert F. ServiceSep. 19, 2019 , 9:45 AM Black, gooey, greasy oil is the starting material for more than just transportation fuel. It’s also…
[embedded content] By Eva FrederickSep. 18, 2019 , 3:00 PM Good news for small, helpless robots who long to be a part of something bigger:…
FABIEN ASTRE/BARCROFT IMAGES/BARCROFT MEDIA VIA GETTY IMAGES By Richard A. LovettSep. 18, 2019 , 3:00 PM It may seem like an obvious argument: Undeveloped lands,…
An asteroid collision 466 million years ago created meteorites that still fall to Earth. NASA/JPL-CALTECH By Joshua SokoloskiSep. 18, 2019 , 2:00 PM Faced with…
The aftermath of an El Niño event in Peru in 2017 ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP/Getty Images By Warren CornwallSep. 18, 2019 , 1:30 PM The dreaded El…
iStock.com/uschools By Jocelyn KaiserSep. 18, 2019 , 12:15 PM A Senate spending panel today released a draft 2020 spending bill containing a hefty $3 billion…
Andrew Martinez/Science Source By Eva FrederickSep. 18, 2019 , 11:10 AM Sea urchins’ spines aren’t the only sharp part of their prickly bodies. The sea…
Genetically modified mosquitoes, such as these being released in Brazil, could combat infectious diseases. Paulo Friedman By Kelly ServickSep. 17, 2019 , 4:50 PM For…
A novel drug may prevent red blood cells from assuming a mutant, sickled shape. Gopal Murti/Science Source By Meredith WadmanSep. 17, 2019 , 4:25 PM…
In 2017, a marine heat wave bleached this coral reef in Hawaii’s Hanauma Bay. Now, officials are bracing for a new bleaching event driven by…
DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART By Jeffrey BrainardSep. 16, 2019 , 4:40 PM In the push to make the scientific literature open access, small scientific societies have…
Oly Ilunga Kalenga (with white hat), former Democratic Republic of the Congo health minister, in May 2017 visited remote villages near Likati then suffering from an…
KATRIN By Adrian ChoSep. 16, 2019 , 4:25 PM Physicists have set a new limit on the mass of nature’s lightest particle of matter. The…
PeopleImages/iStockPhoto By Eva FrederickSep. 16, 2019 , 3:40 PM Scientists have long known that humans are built for endurance, with our shock-absorbing joints and springy…
President Donald Trump wants more precise data on those residents—adult citizens—who are eligible to vote. Drew Angerer/Getty Images By Jeffrey MervisSep. 16, 2019 , 12:50…
By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelSep. 13, 2019 , 5:15 PM After eight hours of contentious discussion, an advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
(left to right): T. APPENZELLER/SCIENCE; Tom Bouyer/Expedition 5300; ISTOCK.COM/ANTAGAIN By Eva FrederickSep. 13, 2019 , 2:40 PM Global warming has made iconic Andean peak unrecognizable…
A simulation of the undulating black hole formed by the merger of two smaller black holes. SXS, the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) project By Adrian…
NASA By Alex FoxSep. 13, 2019 , 1:25 PM Sunrise and sunset chasers discovered something odd this summer: In rural Colorado and the rest of…
Tambako The Jaguar/Flickr In La Rinconada, Peru, a town 5100 meters up in the Peruvian Andes, residents get by breathing air with 50% less oxygen…
White-crowned sparrows stop eating after they ingest small amounts of neonicotinoid pesticides. Margaret Eng By Elizabeth PennisiSep. 12, 2019 , 2:00 PM When birds migrate,…
Peekaboo: Rats enjoy playing hide-and-seek with researchers. ISTOCK.COM/ANTAGAIN By Emily UnderwoodSep. 12, 2019 , 2:00 PM Every child knows that a proper game of hide-and-seek…
By Warren CornwallSep. 12, 2019 , 2:00 PM In late 2016, scientists aboard the U.K. research ship James Cook arrived 500 kilometers off the coast of northwest…
BORN IN A VILLAGE on Peru’s lofty altiplano, Sucasaire first traveled here in 1995, at age 17, in search of a job. Since then, he…
Aaswath Raman By Robert F. ServiceSep. 12, 2019 , 1:45 PM Solar panels are great for powering devices during the day. But they don’t work…
iStock.com/Richardwlh By Alex FoxSep. 12, 2019 , 12:00 PM Rub a balloon on your head, and your hair will stand on end. Nearly everyone has…
Synthetic diamonds (center), grown with defects to trap electrons, offer a natural environment to test the theory of quantum Darwinism. THOMAS UNDEN By Adrian ChoSep.…
By Scott Waldman, E&E NewsSep. 12, 2019 , 11:05 AM Originally published by E&E News When William Happer realized this summer that his plan to…
Carol and Mike Werner/Science Source By Emily UnderwoodSep. 12, 2019 , 11:00 AM Adrenaline. The word is synonymous with any activity that gets our blood…
By Kelly ServickSep. 12, 2019 , 10:35 AM In 1998, Gustavo Ayala, a young pathologist, landed at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, ready…
By Tim AppenzellerSep. 11, 2019 , 4:15 PM On 23 June 1802, German geographer Alexander von Humboldt and his companions could climb no higher. Plagued…
Ten experimental cancer drugs killed cancer cells even when their intended target protein was missing, suggesting the drugs work by some unknown mechanism. Anne Weston,…
Mark Airs/Getty Images By Giorgia GuglielmiSep. 11, 2019 , 2:00 PM The rate at which scientists in Italy cite themselves and their compatriots is rising…
Some 5000 optical fibers will robotically twist into place to catch the light of specific galaxies. © 2010 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/LAWRENCE BERKELEY…
The atmosphere of K2-18b, twice the size of Earth, could contain rain clouds (artist’s impression). ESA/Hubble/M. Kornmesser By Daniel ClerySep. 11, 2019 , 1:00 PM…
Bulgarian politician Mariya Gabriel has been named as the European commissioner to oversee research in a sprawling portfolio. Mauro Bottaro/European Union By Tania RabesandratanaSep. 11,…
Mamoru Takata By Eva FrederickSep. 11, 2019 , 11:00 AM What’s the difference between a suburban parent and a burying beetle? When the beetle wants…
Babak Javid (right) of Tsinghua University in Beijing and his former student Junhao Zhu (left), now a postdoc at Harvard University Rongjun Cai and Babak Javid By…
Jennifer Taylor By David ShultzSep. 10, 2019 , 7:01 PM Aside from Disney’s Sebastian and Tamatoa, crabs aren’t known for their acoustic skills. The ghost…
iStock.com/ unoL By David GrimmSep. 10, 2019 , 6:00 PM The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C., announced today that it will stop conducting…
DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART By Jeffrey BrainardSep. 10, 2019 , 5:15 PM When PLOS ONE debuted in 2006, its founders declared it would transform scientific publishing.…
Fewer than 800 Tapanuli orangutans are left in the Batang Toru ecosystem in Indonesia. Andrew Walmsley/MINDEN PICTURES By Dyna Rochmyaningsih Sep. 10, 2019 , 3:45…
Scottish physiologist John Speakman (left) runs a laboratory in Beijing while maintaining his affiliation with the United Kingdom’s University of Aberdeen, where he also has…
L. Sousa By Eva FrederickSep. 10, 2019 , 11:10 AM Scientists have long assumed there was only one species of electric eel. (After all, who…
mdesigner125/iStock.com By Alex FoxSep. 9, 2019 , 6:40 PM Jagged streaks of lightning ripping across the sky are common to summer storms all over the…
Andrew Warren By Stephenie LivingstonSep. 9, 2019 , 4:15 PM Some scientific battles are epic: Think Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison’s war of currents. Others…
Divers found only a torn cable where a research station had been in the Baltic Sea. Research Diving Center CAU By Gretchen VogelSep. 9, 2019 ,…
The Vikram lander was supposed to release a briefcase-size rover from its belly. ISRO By Sanjay KumarSep. 7, 2019 , 6:49 AM India’s attempt to…
The Vikram lander was supposed to release a briefcase-size rover from its belly. ISRO By Sanjay KumarSep. 7, 2019 , 6:49 AM India’s attempt to…
An image of India’s Chandrayaan-2 lander broadcast today by India’s space agency INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION By Science News StaffSep. 6, 2019 , 4:50 PM Mission…
(left to right): JPA1999/ISTOCK.COM; BRENT WOODFILL; CHRIS AND MONIQUE FALLOWS/MINDEN PICTURES By Eva FrederickSep. 6, 2019 , 3:05 PM Study challenges idea that autism is…
About 140 million years ago, Greater Adria—which later got shoved beneath southern Europe—was a Greenland-size landmass (submerged portions in gray-green) south of the continent. van Hinsbergen…
Bumblebees are expected to benefit from Germany’s insect protection efforts. NABU/Helge May By Gretchen VogelSep. 6, 2019 , 12:10 PM BERLIN—Save the whales, sure. But…
Lizzie Wade/Science This week’s show starts with Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade, who spent 12 days with archaeologists searching for a lost Maya city in the…
Ancient DNA from the Indus Valley Civilization was found in this individual buried at India’s Rakhigarhi archaeological site. Vasant Shinde By Michael PriceSep. 5, 2019…
In search of the ‘white jaguar’: Archaeologists travel deep into the jungle to find a lost Maya city
By Lizzie WadeSep. 5, 2019 , 12:30 PM CHIAPAS STATE IN MEXICO—About 7 hours by kayak up the Tzendales River, our GPS receiver falls overboard…
A tall tree in the tropical forest on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal died after a 2018 lightning strike. EVAN GORA By Elizabeth…
New memo offers first glimpse of how Trump’s science adviser would like to shape spending priorities
Science adviser Kelvin Droegemeier STEPHEN VOSS By Jeffrey MervisSep. 4, 2019 , 4:00 PM A new White House directive laying out next year’s spending priorities…
A new study of 17 languages—including Vietnamese—suggests humans have a set rate of information transfer in speech. M2020/shutterstock.com By Catherine MatacicSep. 4, 2019 , 3:35 PM…
Zhe Chen/Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology By Elizabeth PennisiSep. 4, 2019 , 1:00 PM Some fossil beds are full of scratches, grooves, and repeating…
Schoolchildren immunized with Dengvaxia light candles during a February 2018 protest in Manila. AP PHOTO/BULLIT MARQUEZ By Jon CohenSep. 4, 2019 , 11:30 AM Public…
jpa1999/iStock.com By Emily UnderwoodSep. 3, 2019 , 7:01 PM Of the many proposed triggers for autism, one of the most controversial is the “extreme male…
A solar panel powers a device that harvests water from the air in California’s Mojave Desert. Mathieu Prévot By Robert F. ServiceSep. 3, 2019 ,…
Astronomers say La Palma, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, is not an ideal site for a giant telescope. Pablo Bonet/IAC By Daniel ClerySep. 3, 2019…
[embedded content] By Elizabeth PennisiSep. 3, 2019 , 5:35 PM In 1953, a mountain climber reported seeing a bar-headed goose (Anser indicus) soar over the…
Ruslan Sitarchuk/shutterstock.com By Ian RandallSep. 3, 2019 , 12:25 PM If you’ve ever had trouble breaking into a ripe, shelled walnut, don’t blame your fingers:…
Oszkár Dániel Gáti/Getty Images By Eva FrederickSep. 2, 2019 , 1:00 PM In the thousands of years we’ve lived with dogs, we’ve transformed them from…
Windows at the University of Florida’s Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience in St. Augustine have been covered with plywood in preparation for Hurricane Dorian. Heather…
Credit(left to right): DENA GROSSENBACHER; MALTE MUELLER/GETTY IMAGES; JENNIFER TAYLOR/CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY/DALE MORI AND LIZ RUSSELL; By Eva FrederickAug. 30, 2019 , 1:55…
Fires detected by NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites in South America between 15 and 22 August MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview By Herton…
Great white sharks are gone from False Bay in South Africa. One theory holds that they were scared away by orcas. Chris and Monique Fallows/Minden…
Carnivores today may be carrying on an ancestral diet pattern that emerged hundreds of millions of years ago, a new study suggests. iStock.com/Veronika Dvořáková By…
By the time of this ancient Egyptian painting, showing a farmer plowing with a yoke, people had transformed landscapes around the globe with agriculture. The…
The final site in the National Ecology Observatory Network, including a sensor-laden tower, was completed in Hawaii earlier this year. Battelle/NEON By Elizabeth PennisiAug. 29, 2019…
Chris Couderc/Flickr Micro-organisms live inside everything from the human gut to coral—but where do they come from? Host Meagan Cantwell talks to Staff Writer Elizabeth…
Ancient people apparently followed rivers more than 500 kilometers inland to Cooper’s Ferry in western Idaho. LOREN DAVIS By Lizzie WadeAug. 29, 2019 , 2:00…
With a new CRISPR-based editor, biologists can now edit lengthy spans of DNA. iStock.com/Meletios Verras By Robert F. ServiceAug. 29, 2019 , 2:00 PM Imagine…
A new study suggests many genes, each with small effects, may play a role in same-sex sexual behavior. Malte Mueller/Getty Images By Jocelyn KaiserAug. 29,…
By Elizabeth PennisiAug. 29, 2019 , 12:05 PM Yaowu Yuan’s passion for monkeyflowers began in 2004 with a slideshow. Then a budding plant taxonomist at…
The headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Rob Crandall/Alamy Stock Photo By Sean Reilly, E&E NewsAug. 28, 2019 , 2:25 PM Originally…
The Waimea Valley in Hawaii includes a wide variety of habitats for microbes and their plant and animal hosts. WAIMEA VALLEY Botanical Gardens By Elizabeth PennisiAug. 28,…
A skull (left) shows that Australopithecus anamensis (artist’s reconstruction, right) had a small brain and a protruding face. (Left to right): JENNIFER TAYLOR/CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL…
iStock.com/diego_cervo By Kelly ServickAug. 28, 2019 , 11:00 AM Try to cheat your body out of a full night’s sleep and you’ll suffer the consequences…
A supporter of the Hong Kong prodemocracy protests stands next to a “Lennon Wall” at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Several such walls have…
A woman watches over a child with malaria in a hospital in Jacqueville, Ivory Coast, in April. SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images By Martin EnserinkAug. 27, 2019 ,…
Oxygen from ancient life may have led to Snowball Earth (artist’s concept). Did an impact help it thaw? Chris Butler/Science Source By Eric HandAug. 27,…
A plant being vaccinated with molecules identified by a new technique MLU/Markus Scholz By Eva FrederickAug. 26, 2019 , 3:20 PM Few things are scarier…
iStock.com/Deagreez By David ShultzAug. 26, 2019 , 3:00 PM Here’s a good reason to turn that frown upside down: Optimistic people live as much as…
The rainforest is on fire in theJamanxim Environmental Protection Area near the city of Novo Progresso in Pará state, Brazil. Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace By…
Productivity of eucalyptus plantations could be increased with trees genetically modified for faster growth. casadaphoto/shutterstock.com By Erik StokstadAug. 23, 2019 , 5:45 PM Look at…
Credit (left to right): © ROB PERRYMAN; AARON ONTIVEROZ/THE DENVER POST VIA GETTY IMAGES; AP PHOTO/DESMOND BOYLAN By Eva FrederickAug. 23, 2019 , 4:20 PM…
By Meagan Weiland, Nirja DesaiAug. 23, 2019 , 12:00 PM Suicide is a worldwide problem, but its effects are uneven. Although suicide rates—all rates noted…
Protesters march in June 2018 in Santiago, demanding an end to sexual harassment and abuse, including in educational institutions. AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo By Lindzi WesselAug.…
A new study suggests online hate groups form and spread along virtual “hate highways.” iStock.com/id-work By Eva FrederickAug. 22, 2019 , 2:50 PM For moderators…
By Gretchen VogelAug. 22, 2019 , 1:40 PM BERLIN—A consortium of more than 700 German research institutions and libraries today announced an agreement with publisher…
Government fumigators, in 2018, spraying homes in Havana to kill mosquitoes AP Photo/Desmond Boylan By Jon CohenAug. 22, 2019 , 11:00 AM As Zika virus…
By Greg MillerAug. 22, 2019 , 8:00 AM Can a three-digit phone number avert suicides on a grand scale? Last week, the Federal Communications Commission…
By Elizabeth CulottaAug. 22, 2019 , 8:00 AM While co-organizing a symposium a few years ago, a distinguished evolutionary psychologist named Nicholas Humphrey sought an…
© Rob Perryman By Eva FrederickAug. 22, 2019 , 12:01 AM Although many sharks are solitary creatures, their manta ray relatives are surprisingly social: They…
A quantum computer could hack the public key encryption schemes that now uphold internet security. ISTOCK.COM/matejmo By Adrian ChoAug. 21, 2019 , 1:15 PM A…
Italy’s Minister of Health Giulia Grillo supports animal rights groups. Independent Photo Agency Srl/Alamy Stock Photo By Alison AbbottAug. 21, 2019 , 12:15 PM Marco…
By Kelly ServickAug. 21, 2019 , 8:00 AM Every Wednesday afternoon, an alert flashes on the cellphones of about 50 teenagers in New York and…
The icebreaker Polarstern, seen here operating in Antarctica in 2013, is being prepared to be locked into Arctic sea ice for more than a year.…
Environmental campaigners in Canada have been told that climate science is a partisan issue in the upcoming election. Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images…
By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelAug. 20, 2019 , 12:45 PM When my younger sister died by suicide 7 years ago, at age 30, the loss was shattering.…
By Emily UnderwoodAug. 20, 2019 , 12:45 PM By his late 20s, Moe had attained the young adult dream. A technology job paid for his…
By Kelly ServickAug. 20, 2019 , 10:25 AM When Oklahoma State University (OSU) got a major windfall from a settlement with opioidmaker Purdue Pharma earlier…
A 1919 notebook records measurements for the salmon sampled on one day, complete with slimy scales that preserved fish DNA. Lesley Evans Ogden By Lesley…
The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development’s scholarship budget was slashed by 21% this year. iStock.com/MediaProduction By Emiliano Rodríguez MegaAug. 19, 2019 , 5:30…
By Elizabeth CulottaAug. 19, 2019 , 1:35 PM The University of Adelaide in Australia has suspended evolutionary molecular biologist Alan Cooper, director of the university’s…
NASA/MIT/TESS By Daniel CleryAug. 19, 2019 , 12:00 PM When scientists go looking for life on distant exoplanets, they generally focus on rocky worlds the…
Holden Thorp Washington University By Jeffrey BrainardAug. 19, 2019 , 11:45 AM Holden Thorp, a chemist who held top leadership positions at two major U.S.…
Aggressive comb-footed spiders are better storm survivors, according to a new study. Judy Gallagher/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY) By Kelly MayesAug. 19, 2019 , 11:40 AM…
A new controversial study suggests that pregnant women who drink fluoridated water could risk their children’s IQ. iStock.com/SolStock By Michael PriceAug. 19, 2019 , 11:20…
Igor Kovalchuk, a plant geneticist at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, is awaiting Canadian approval to grow cannabis in a second greenhouse. Leslie Ohene-Adjei/University of…
(LEFT TO RIGHT) STEPHEN VOSS; NYXOLYNO CANGEMI/U.S. COAST GUARD; SELEGGT By Eva FrederickAug. 16, 2019 , 5:30 PM For a decade, Francis Collins has shielded…
S. Fan et. al., arXiv (2019) arXiv:1908.04350 By Daniel CleryAug. 16, 2019 , 5:25 PM When Earthly astronomers train their telescopes on exoplanets beyond our…
Scientists may have finally seen a black hole devouring a neutron star, as in this simulation. Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes/CC BY-NC 3.0 By Adrian ChoAug. 16,…
NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS; U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team By Katherine KorneiAug. 16, 2019 , 8:00 AM The sixth century was a rough time to be alive: Lower-than-average temperatures…
fruchtzwerg’s world/Flickr Researchers, regulators, and the chicken industry are all united in their search for a way to make eggs more ethical by stopping culling—the…
IBM Research By Robert F. ServiceAug. 15, 2019 , 2:00 PM Carbon is a shapeshifter. When its atoms bond to four neighbors, it becomes diamond.…
Patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis, like this man in Tanzania, currently face arduous treatment. JOHN-MICHAEL MAAS FOR TB ALLIANCE By Jon CohenAug. 15, 2019 , 12:00…
The Ecological Forecasting Initiative aims to aid efforts to use data collected in the field to forecast future ecosystem changes. Cydney Scott for Boston University…
Researchers are challenging a study’s claim that black and Hispanic civilians are not disproportionately killed in police shootings. Contemporary Bokeh/Alamy Stock Photo By Juanita BawaganAug.…
RWI FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY/Alamy Stock Photo Aug. 15, 2019 , 10:00 AM LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY—Experts consider salt marshes foot soldiers in the battle against climate change:…
Francis Collins has led the National Institutes of Health with a firm hand. STEPHEN VOSS By Jocelyn KaiserAug. 15, 2019 , 9:30 AM For months…
Promoting the Cancer Moonshot, then-Vice President Joe Biden (right) speaks with Nobel laureate Paul Modrich (left), at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, in 2016. …
New technologies for identifying male chicks while still in the egg could avert culling. Seleggt By Gretchen VogelAug. 14, 2019 , 1:45 PM In hundreds…
Shang-Fei Liu/Sun Yat-sen University By Paul VoosenAug. 14, 2019 , 1:00 PM Jupiter harbors a deep mystery: Rather than the distinct core scientists expected, it…
By Maya Earls, E&E NewsAug. 14, 2019 , 10:50 AM Originally published by E&E News An expected whistleblower complaint is the latest escalation in a…