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Ebisu copies her owner, Fumi Higaki, during “Do as I do” training. Fumi Higaki By David GrimmSep. 25, 2020 , 10:50 AM Ebisu may be…
Birds like this homing pigeon may have the necessary neural anatomy for thinking. Ruth Swan/Alamy Stock Photo By Virginia MorellSep. 24, 2020 , 3:50 PM…
Neanderthal men unwittingly carried modern human men’s Y chromosomes. Flavio Massari/agefotostock/Newscom By Ann GibbonsSep. 24, 2020 , 2:00 PM Neanderthals have long been seen as…
COVID-19 data on Native Americans is ‘a national disgrace.’ This scientist is fighting to be counted
“If you eliminate us in the data, we no longer exist,” says Abigail Echo-Hawk, a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and director of the Urban Indian…
A new study may help explain why men, like this patient in an Italian intensive care unit, are more likely than women to develop life-threatening…
Saad Bhamla models his do-it-yourself hearing aid, built with a soldering iron and cheap supplies. Craig Bromley By Christa Lesté-LasserreSep. 23, 2020 , 2:00 PM…
Researchers found curved slickenlines at nine exposures of the Kekerengu fault in New Zealand. KATE CLARK/GNS SCIENCE By Paul VoosenSep. 23, 2020 , 12:45 PM…
By Adrian ChoSep. 23, 2020 , 1:35 PM You might call Jeffrey Shapiro the reluctant godfather of quantum radar. Twelve years ago, the electrical engineer…
An Asian invader, the emerald ash borer, is killing trees throughout eastern North America. Stephen Ausmus/USDA/Science Source By Elizabeth PennisiSep. 23, 2020 , 12:10 PM…
By Lucy HicksSep. 23, 2020 , 11:40 AM Cells have places to be, and they have all evolved different ways to get there: Red blood…
NASA is deepening its ties to the military as it seeks international partners for Artemis, its plan to return humans to the Moon. NASA By…
By Scott Waldman, E&E NewsSep. 22, 2020 , 9:55 AM Originally published by E&E News The Trump administration’s pick to become the new chief scientist…
In its healthy waters mission, the European Union aims to eliminate plastic pollution by boosting recycling. Magnus Larsson/iStock.com By Nicholas WallaceSep. 22, 2020 , 4:30…
Frontline health care workers, such as these testing a man in Jakarta, Indonesia, for a coronavirus infection, would be among the first to be immunized…
Charles Stewart III Stuart Darsch/MIT Political Science By Warren CornwallSep. 18, 2020 , 2:45 PM As the November U.S. election approaches, anxiety is running high.…
This mobile brain-monitoring device includes a wand and backpack that works in conjunction with a neural implant. It can also be paired with virtual reality goggles.…
E. Petersen/Science By Kelly ServickSep. 18, 2020 , 2:40 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. Three months…
A study that placed Chinese alligators (Alligator sinensis) in helium chambers revealed mechanisms of their vocalizations and earned the authors a 2020 Ig Nobel Prize.…
These footprints were made by ancient humans’ muddy feet as they traversed a lakeshore in Saudi Arabia about 120,000 years ago. Stewart et al., 2020…
Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico Los Alamos National Laboratory By Science News StaffSep. 17, 2020 , 12:50 PM A former Los Alamos National…
Wade Crowfoot’s challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump’s misleading comments on climate change went viral. Here, Crowfoot examines a fire scene in California. Paul Kitagaki…
Alan Minson says his Parkinson’s symptoms improved after he started to use a “light helmet” in July 2019. RON BROWN By Gunjan SinhaSep. 17, 2020…
By Paul VoosenSep. 17, 2020 , 2:00 PM In 1991, scientists lowered large subwoofers into the water at Heard Island, a snowcapped volcanic island in…
Outbreaks of the pandemic coronavirus in correctional facilities have prompted moves to reduce populations. ANDY HUFFAKER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Kelly ServickSep. 17, 2020 , 10:15 AM…
Protesters gather in Bursa, Turkey, on 21 July to support Kayıhan Pala, a public health researcher accused of “misinforming the public” about the coronavirus pandemic…
Researchers have high hopes for monoclonal antibodies’ power in fighting the novel coronavirus. fotomay/iStockPhoto By Meredith WadmanSep. 16, 2020 , 11:15 AM Science’s COVID-19 reporting…
DNA from Viking-era burials around Europe—like this one of a woman in Varnhem, Sweden—revealed individual histories and identities. VÄSTERGÖTLANDS MUSEUM By Andrew CurrySep. 16, 2020…
IBM researchers have already installed the mounting hardware for a jumbo cryostat big enough to hold a quantum computer with 1 million qubits. Connie Zhou/IBM…
In Genoa, Italy, a recovered COVID-19 patient undergoes a test of heart function. Marco Di Lauro/Stringer/GETTY IMAGES By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelSep. 15, 2020 , 4:45 PM…
Deforestation in Brazil, such as here in the Amazon, has increased in recent years. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters By Erik StokstadSep. 15, 2020 , 5:30 PM A…
This juvenile Key Largo woodrat was captured and released in Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Key Largo, Florida, as part of long-term monitoring efforts.…
A 2016 algal bloom off California’s coast. Similar blooms may have helped life recover after the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact. NASA/Goddard/Suomin-NPP/VIIRS (CC-BY) By Katherine KorneiSep. 15,…
Rob Robbins By Raleigh McElverySep. 15, 2020 , 11:30 AM The frigid Antarctic waters pack an especially diverse and vibrant array of sea spiders, marine…
A man sleeps inside a mosquito bed net in Somalia. Feisal Omar/Reuters By Mohammed El-Said Sep. 15, 2020 , 11:55 AM An Asian malaria-carrying mosquito…
Corals on the Debussy Seamount, a submerged peak more than 2000 meters below the surface in the North Pacific Ocean © NOAA Office of Ocean…
Providing medication to inmates comes with practical challenges, but those difficulties shouldn’t prevent prisoners from enrolling in COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials, researchers argue. SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration headquarters Kristoffer Tripplaar/Sipa USA/TNS via Newscom By Scott Waldman, E&E NewsSep. 14, 2020 , 9:50 AM Originally published by E&E News…
The genome editor CRISPR, whose invention is at the heart of a fierce patent battle, typically uses an RNA molecule (red) to guide a DNA-cutting…
New devices can convert low-grade heat from hot water heaters and other sources into electricity. AnatolEr/iStock.com By Robert F. ServiceSep. 11, 2020 , 5:10 PM…
Intentionally set fires, such as this prescribed burn in Colorado in 2017, are an important tool for fire scientists and land managers. But the COVID-19…
Starlet sea anemones are the first species known to grow new limbs in response to food availability. Anniek Stokkermans/European Molecular Biology Laboratory By Rasha AridiSep.…
Genes are expressed differently in tissues around the human body, as indicated by white to dark blue squares. The Genotype-Tissue Expression project has now mapped…
Most patients with hemophilia A must get several intravenous clotting factor injections throughout the week, but a new fusion protein could reduce that to just…
Sea ice loss has sped up the shoreline erosion threatening the Indigenous Alaskan village of Kivalina. JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES By Richard StoneSep. 9, 2020 ,…
Black metaltail hummingbirds, native to Peru, can cool their bodies down to just a few degrees above the outdoor temperature at night. Glenn Bartley By…
Many very sick COVID-19 patients, like some in this Brazilian intensive care unit, have obesity. Gustavo Basso/NurPhoto/Getty Images By Meredith WadmanSep. 8, 2020 , 6:00…
Most open-access journals lack the technical means and plans to preserve their articles, despite a mandate from some funders that they do so. Sezeryadigar/iStock.com By…
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny fell ill on 20 August after drinking a cup of tea at a Siberian airport. The German government says he…
The range of blue mussels has shrunk considerably as the ocean has warmed and changed how their larvae are dispersed by currents. Andrew J. Martinez/Science…
Gravity is unlikely to be the cause of quantum collapse, suggests an underground experiment at Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory. Tommaso Guicciardini/Science Source By George…
Apartment buildings in Guangzhou, China, where toilet waste pipes may have carried the novel coronavirus from one infected family’s bathroom to people living above them.…
Beirut residents began to clean up their city soon after a 4 August explosion. Researchers are testing air and dust samples for toxic compounds. AP…
Moncef Saloui, the scientific head of Operation Warp Speed, spent 29 years making vaccines at GlaxoSmithKline. Stuart Isett CC 2.0 By Jon CohenSep. 3, 2020…
By Rasha AridiSep. 3, 2020 , 2:00 PM In the mid-1970s, citizens across the world took to the streets to demand democracy from their governments,…
A pothole being fixed in Southern California. Scott Varley/Digital First Media/Torrance Daily Breeze via Getty Images By Erik StokstadSep. 3, 2020 , 11:15 AM The…
He Jiankui shocked the world when he described the implantation of edited embryos that led to the birth of twin girls, Lulu and Nana. NATIONAL…
Investigators examine the site in the United Kingdom where a former Russian spy was poisoned with a Novichok agent in 2018. German officials today said…
Appfel et al., Nature 2020 By Edd GentSep. 2, 2020 , 11:00 AM If you’re a water sports fan looking for a new thrill, what…
The merger of middleweight black holes churned up gravitational waves that were detected on Earth. Deborah Ferguson, Karan Jani, Deirdre Shoemaker, Pablo Laguna, Georgia Tech,…
Vacationers on the beach in Tamariu, on Spain’s Costa Brava, on 17 August. Joan Valls/Urbanandsport/NurPhoto/AP By Kai KupferschmidtSep. 1, 2020 , 2:00 PM Science‘s COVID-19…
Parasitic worms like those found in the 15th century remains of King Richard III were relatively common among medieval Europeans, a new study finds. Susie…
Female mice that ate alpha-ketoglutarate (left) next to control mice. A. A. Shahmirzadi et. al., Cell Metabolism (2020) 10.1016 By Jocelyn KaiserSep. 1, 2020 ,…
The headquarters of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian prosecutors allege that Guilherme Franco Netto, a prominent public health scientist at the foundation,…
Two highland wild dogs photographed near Grasberg Mine on western New Guinea Anang Dianto By Michael PriceAug. 31, 2020 , 3:00 PM The haunting, plaintive…
The University of São Paulo in Brazil is one of three major academic research centers that could lose tens of millions of reais held in reserve…
In 2016, researchers estimated the depth of the Hranice Abyss to be 473.5 meters. Marcin Jamkowski/AP By Charlotte HartleyAug. 31, 2020 , 12:40 PM For…
A solution of clothianidin and another insecticide is sprayed on the walls of a home in Rwanda. © BAYER By Munyaradzi MakoniAug. 31, 2020 ,…
Buildings and homes are damaged in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura on 27 August near Lake Charles, Louisiana. AP Photo/David J. Phillip By Rasha Aridi, Rebekah Tuchscherer,…
By Meagan CantwellAug. 28, 2020 , 4:00 PM Rivers throughout the eastern United States are well known for their high banks and steep, winding courses.…
Tiananmen Square in Beijing AP Photo/Ng Han Guan By Dennis NormileAug. 28, 2020 , 2:40 PM China continued its yearslong run of double-digit percentage increases…
Utah State University researchers have grown cannabis plants since 2018, when hemp cultivation was legalized. Eli Lucero/The Herald Journal via AP By Cathleen O’GradyAug. 27,…
Abbott plans to ship tens of millions of antigen tests in September Abbott By Robert F. ServiceAug. 27, 2020 , 2:05 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting…
“Lock down the village, test everybody, and isolate the positives. It really works,” Andrea Crisanti says. KATTY HUERTAS By Douglas StarrAug. 27, 2020 , 12:00…
Though small, the three-spine stickleback has a big enough mouth to eat the young of its predators. Kim Taylor/Minden Pictures By Elizabeth PennisiAug. 27, 2020…
One of the new U.S. artificial intelligence research centers will develop ways to apply the technology to storm and weather prediction. petesphotography/iStock.com By Adrian ChoAug.…
Voting by mail hasn’t given a big advantage to one political party, but Republican rhetoric could change the dynamic for November’s election. Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution…
At a 2019 HIV cure meeting, “elite controller” Loreen Willenberg (right) speaks with Rowena Johnston, research director of amfAR. amfAR/The Foundation for AIDS Research By…
A report warns that fleets of new communication satellites in low-Earth orbit will spoil some astronomical observations, even if all known mitigations strategies are taken.…
Consisting of an electron bound to a positron, positronium is at once both the most exotic and simplest of atoms. C. Bickel/Science By Adrian ChoAug.…
In many infections, the immune system builds so-called germinal centers (yellow-brown rings inside the blue) in the spleen or lymph nodes to train cells that…
Dreams are a continuation of what we experience in waking life. PeopleImages/iStock.com By Charlotte HartleyAug. 25, 2020 , 7:01 PM “I was at home and…
The Polarstern, released too early from a floe, returned to the North Pole in August amid thin ice. Steffen Graupner By Paul VoosenAug. 25, 2020…
At a Sunday press conference, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn (left) had approved an emergency use authorization for using plasma…
Airport staff members take details of arriving passengers at the Hong Kong International Airport, where a man reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19 arrived…
Residents in Greenville, Texas, are urged to fill out the 2020 census at a walk-in center. LP Otero/AP By Jeffrey MervisAug. 24, 2020 , 5:00…
A woman spits into a tube so that her saliva can be tested for the presence of the novel coronavirus. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign By…
By Ariel Wittenberg, E&E News, James Marshall, E&E News, Timothy Cama, E&E NewsAug. 24, 2020 , 2:10 PM The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today…
Laos is now wet and verdant, but new findings suggest it experienced a 1000-year megadrought starting about 5000 years ago. fbxx/iStock.com By Charles ChoiAug. 24,…
Doug Gimesy/Minden Pictures By Elizabeth PennisiAug. 20, 2020 , 8:00 PM Australia’s biggest bats—known as flying foxes—are among the world’s most restless nomads, according to…
Stanford University is one of the U.S. institutions asking students to sign compacts agreeing to the university’s COVID-19 policies. Kirby Lee/AP By Katie LanginAug. 20,…
Ice cores drilled from Antarctica chronicle centurylong pulses of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Thibaut Vergoz/Institut polaire français By Sid PerkinsAug. 20, 2020 , 2:15…
By Charlotte HartleyAug. 20, 2020 , 11:00 AM The three mummified animals showcased in this video—a cat, a snake, and a bird—remained shrouded in bandages,…
A worker inspects ponds holding 30 million tons of red mud at an aluminum plant in Hungary. A 2010 spill from the ponds killed 10…
Yang et al., Science Robotics 2020 By Charlotte HartleyAug. 19, 2020 , 2:00 PM Robots tend to be powered by batteries and plug sockets. But…
Michael Lauer, deputy director for extramural research at the National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health By Meredith WadmanAug. 19, 2020 , 10:55 AM Science’s…
By Joel GoldbergAug. 19, 2020 , 10:00 AM Related story There are treasures buried underground, like gold, silver, and diamonds—and then there is manna from…
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar (foregound) is carrying out the new fetal tissue policy developed by President Donald Trump’s administration. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky By Meredith…
Victor Ortega-Jimenez By Lucy HicksAug. 18, 2020 , 7:01 PM Starlings, swifts, and small birds called dippers build nests in the most unlikely places: behind…
The nearly 250 mink farms in the United States produce some 2.5 million pelts annually. BirdImages/iStock.com By Eli CahanAug. 18, 2020 , 10:55 AM Science’s…
As the result of a restoration project that removed 22,000 tons of colonial-era sediment, Big Spring Run in Pennsylvania now snakes through lush wetlands. NICHOLAS…
By Adrian ChoAug. 18, 2020 , 1:20 PM Engineers at NuScale Power believe they can revive the moribund U.S. nuclear industry by thinking small. Spun…
Natural gas is burned off at an oil field in North Dakota. Jim West/agefotostock/Newscom By Niina H. Farah, E&E News, Jennifer Hijazi, E&E NewsAug. 17,…
Not just “philosophical mumbo-jumbo”: An experiment shows how facts may depend on the observer. Davide Bonazzi/Salzman Art By George MusserAug. 17, 2020 , 11:20 AM…
A campaign worker distributes bed nets in April in Cotonou, Benin, which canceled but later resumed bed net distribution. YANICK FOLLY/AFP/Getty Images By Leslie RobertsAug.…
An employee takes a cat’s temperature at a cat café in Bangkok. LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images By David GrimmAug. 14, 2020 , 4:00 PM…
Fearing that a combination of seasonal influenza and COVID-19 will overwhelm hospitals, many countries are stepping up campaigns to increase flu vaccination. Speed Media/Icon Sportswire…
In April, normally timid jackals appeared in Hayarkon Park in the heart of Tel Aviv, Israel, while the city was locked down during the coronavirus pandemic.…
Border Cave extends deep into the mountains on South Africa’s border with Eswatini. A. Kruger By Cathleen O’GradyAug. 13, 2020 , 2:15 PM Border Cave…
If flu vaccines made more bone marrow plasma cells (pictured here) that lived long lives, immunity would last far longer. Gopal Murti/Science Source By Jon…
Ottoline Leyser, the second director of UK Research and Innovation, says she’s prioritizing diversity at the funding agency. Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University By Cathleen O’GradyAug.…
In a 1497 woodcut, a physician examines the urine of a patient in the first European syphilis epidemic. NLM/Science Source By Charlotte HartleyAug. 13, 2020…
Applied mathematician Eva Lee had her day in court. VILLAR LOPEZ/EFE/NEWSCOM By Jeffrey MervisAug. 12, 2020 , 3:50 PM A federal judge today gave a…
Applied mathematician Eva Lee had her day in court. VILLAR LOPEZ/EFE/NEWSCOM By Jeffrey MervisAug. 12, 2020 , 3:50 PM A federal judge today gave a…
This week, a snapped cable tore a 30-meter gash in Arecibo’s iconic 307-meter dish. Arecibo Observatory By Daniel CleryAug. 12, 2020 , 3:25 PM The…
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern discussed new COVID-19 restrictions, including a lockdown of Auckland, at a press conference in Wellington today. Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images…
By Meagan CantwellAug. 12, 2020 , 12:00 PM Although your hair is much softer than steel, razors typically only last for a handful of shaves.…
Thick-billed longspur Jim Zipp/Science Source By Eli CahanAug. 11, 2020 , 5:20 PM Last week, another Confederate monument fell. The monument, in this case, was…
An artist’s impression of a black dwarf, a cooled-down stellar remnant that could form in trillions of years MARK GARLICK/Science Source By Adam MannAug. 11,…
An experimental COVID-19 vaccine made by a Russian research institute needs more testing, many scientists say. Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation By Jon…
Students and instructors at an archaeological field school in St. Croix forge ties for the future as they learn. M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE By Lizzie WadeAug. 11,…
Children run past a mural warning about COVID-19 in Nairobi. Kenya has reported relatively few cases so far. AP Photo/Brian Inganga By Linda NordlingAug. 11,…
A U.S. representative has called for a study of academic racism in all of its forms. Robert Neubecker By Jeffrey MervisAug. 11, 2020 , 2:15 PM…
In return for these Aphaenogaster ants dispersing its seeds, bloodroot attaches a tasty “handle” that gives the ants a reward and a way to carry the seed…
A giant Asian honey bee visits a flower. Elephant Corridor Films By Harini BarathAug. 10, 2020 , 3:10 PM Bees feel the sting of air…
If umifenovir, a broad-spectrum antiviral, can fight COVID-19, then computer-designed synthetic routes could make it easy and cheap to produce. Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images…
Rox Middleton By Charlotte HartleyAug. 6, 2020 , 11:00 AM With their dazzling metallic hue, the blue fruits of the laurustinus shrub (Viburnum tinus), a…
NJIT; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Rennes, France By Lucy HicksAug. 6, 2020 , 11:00 AM A new fossil reveals how a mysterious ancient…
By drilling into lake bottoms, researchers collect mud cores with fossil pollen that reveal the history of plants. Anthony Barnosky By Elizabeth PennisiAug. 5, 2020…
A system powered by artificial intelligence uses light echoes to make a 3D movie (left), albeit with lower resolution than one from a 3D camera.…
Hopes are riding on labmade antibodies that bind to a key surface protein of the new coronavirus (orange in an artist’s concept). KATERYNA KON/Science Source…
Members of the Australian Defence Force walk through Melbourne after the state of Victoria implemented a new lockdown on that city to stop the spread…
Obstetrician Yalda Afshar is probing COVID-19’s impact during pregnancy. Her own baby is due in October. Aparna Sridhar By Meredith WadmanAug. 4, 2020 , 3:45…
This fall, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, plans to test all 60,000 students and faculty members multiples times per week. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign By Robert…
The Twitterverse responded angrily to alleged deception by #MeTooSTEM founder BethAnn McLaughlin. Lane Turner/The Boston Globe/Getty Images By Meredith Wadman, Ann GibbonsAug. 3, 2020 ,…
© Royal Ontario Museum/McMaster University By Gretchen VogelAug. 3, 2020 , 6:40 PM This deformed bone is the first clear example of a malignant tumor…
ISTOCK.COM/Moyo Studio By Katie LanginJul. 31, 2020 , 5:40 PM When COVID-19 hit the United Kingdom in March, Michele Veldsman—a postdoc at the University of…
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar (right) is carrying out President Donald Trump’s fetal tissue policy. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst By Meredith Wadman, Jocelyn KaiserJul. 31, 2020 ,…
Three men equipped with a light-emitting diode headlamp travel for a night hunting trip in the Congo rainforest. REUTERS/Thomas Nicolon By Warren CornwallJul. 31, 2020…
Neuroscientist Athena Akrami has had debilitating symptoms since her coronavirus infection more than 4 months ago. Ryan Low By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelJul. 31, 2020 , 1:30…
Steven Dillingham appeared before Congress yesterday wearing a special “2020 census” mask. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik By Jeffrey MervisJul. 30, 2020 , 2:00 PM Census Bureau…
A showy Rhododendron is one of some 3000 alpine plant species found in the Hengduan Mountains. YAOWU XING/XTBG/CAS By Erik StokstadJul. 30, 2020 , 2:00…
A staff member with a high-stakes sports contest known as The Basketball Tournament sprays equipment with disinfectant between play. Ben Solomon By Eli CahanJul. 30,…
New immune strategies could prevent respiratory syncytial virus from causing serious, and sometimes deadly, disease in infants. Alexander Ishchenko/shutterstock.com By Jon CohenJul. 29, 2020 ,…
Peat moss around a pool in Cairngorms National Park in the United Kingdom Duncan Shaw/Science Source By Cathleen O’GradyJul. 29, 2020 , 2:00 PM The wrinkles…
Andre Pattenden/English Heritage By Michael PriceJul. 29, 2020 , 2:00 PM As Robert Phillips neared his 90th birthday, the former diamond cutter decided to return…
A man attempts to draw what he sees when looking at an 8. Numerals fail to register in his brain. SCHUBERT ET AL., PNAS, 117,…
Competitors in the elite women’s runners division cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge during the 2019 New York City Marathon. AP Photo/Julius Motal By Lucy HicksJul. 29,…
A lab technician works on COVID-19 tests in Kigali, Rwanda. Health care workers should be first in line for pandemic vaccines, global health experts say.…
In half a century, global warming has widened the Batagay megaslump from a small gully to a yawning pit more than 900 meters wide. KATIE…
Immigrant advocacy groups have been encouraging hard-to-reach populations to participate in the 2020 census. Here, a volunteer knocks on a door in Maryland. Marvin Joseph/The…
Researchers take samples from deep-ocean sediment cores. IODP JRSO By Elizabeth PennisiJul. 28, 2020 , 11:00 AM Microbes buried beneath the sea floor for more…
A scanning electron micrograph of dolomite, a mineral with a striking rhombohedric structure. Nano Creative/Science Source By Adam MannJul. 27, 2020 , 3:25 PM Perhaps…
By Meagan CantwellJul. 27, 2020 , 9:00 AM To save energy, many insects swivel their head—instead of their entire body—to scan the world around them.…
MICHAEL MELFORD/Nat Geo Image Collection By Warren CornwallJul. 24, 2020 , 5:10 PM A massive mine proposed for the heart of a vast Alaskan wilderness…
The influenza A virus, shown in a stylized scanning electron microscopic image, is one of many pathogens that take advantage of a 2-million-year-old evolutionary change…
French research minister Frédérique Vidal unveiled a science bill that would boost research funding—but not fast enough for some. Sipa via AP Images By Elisabeth…
A Senate committee has backed a security bill put together by Senators Rob Portman (R–OH, left) and Tom Carper (D–DE, right). Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via…
Marijan Murat/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Eli CahanJul. 23, 2020 , 1:15 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. For…
By Meagan CantwellJul. 23, 2020 , 12:20 PM The microbes from the crystal blue pools of Cuatro Ciénegas, a butterfly-shaped basin among the mountains of…
A chemically altered adenine, a DNA letter, may help ensure the placenta (white tissue, in illustration) forms correctly to nourish a developing fetus. SINGLECELL ANIMATION…
Archaeologists excavate Dyar mound, an earthen pyramid used for Indigenous rituals. University of Georgia By Bridget AlexJul. 22, 2020 , 4:20 PM About 130 kilometers…
Bruce Degen created this poster of Ms. Frizzle for the 2017 March for Science. Bruce Degen By Rasha AridiJul. 22, 2020 , 3:35 PM In…
For the first time, the United States has moved to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from commercial aircraft, but many environmentalists say the limits don’t go…
By Erik StokstadJul. 22, 2020 , 11:10 AM Sharks are missing from 19% of the world’s coral reefs, the greatest decline of reef sharks ever…
The sequenced genomes of the greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis) and five distant cousins are revealing the secrets of bat evolution. Olivier Farcy By Elizabeth…
Researchers dug nearly 3 meters deep in Chiquihuite Cave and found almost 2000 stone tools. DEVLIN A. GANDY By Andrew CurryJul. 22, 2020 , 11:00…
Vaccinators get temperature checks before getting to work in Karachi, Pakistan, on 20 July. AKHTAR SOOMRO/REUTERS By Leslie RobertsJul. 21, 2020 , 4:20 PM Science’s…
Universities across the United States are grappling with how to reopen safely amid a pandemic. PHOTO: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images By Jyoti MadhusoodananJul. 20, 2020 ,…
Sophie Rose co-founded a group pushing a fast—and controversial—approach to COVID-19 vaccine trials and has volunteered to participate. Sophie Rose By Jon CohenJul. 20, 2020 ,…
An artist’s representation of a stone ramp at the ancient Greek Sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus. © 2019 John Goodinson; Scientific adviser John Svolos/Anasynthesis Project…
Northern lapwings are breeding earlier and over a shorter period of time than 40 years ago. Mike Lane/Minden Pictures By Charlotte HartleyJul. 20, 2020 ,…
A new study suggests that if wind instruments were covered in cloth, they could produce less of the particles that can carry the new coronavirus. Wind…
Newly discovered PRIME cells could help tamp down joint inflammation caused by rheumatoid arthritis SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Science Source By Eli CahanJul. 17, 2020 , 3:25…
The arrival of two political appointees last month has sent tremors through the U.S. Census Bureau. Kristoffer Tripplaar/Sipa USA via AP Images By Jeffrey MervisJul.…
A laborer climbs a tree to pluck coconuts at a farm on the outskirts of Bangalore, India. DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP via Getty Images By Dyna Rochmyaningsih…
Video cameras and GPS allowed researchers to track the navigation of hunting dogs, such as this wire-haired miniature dachshund named Hurvinek Valentinka. Kateřina Benediktová and…
Dennis Amundson, who runs the intensive care unit at Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista, chats with a nurse in the emergency room to evaluate whether…
Deep-water rice can outgrow floods, as here, in Vietnam. Jose More/VWPics/Alamy Stock Photo By Erik StokstadJul. 16, 2020 , 1:40 PM Stature matters to plants.…
The Dodger Stadium parking lot has become a massive COVID-19 testing site, but scientists say they can’t get all the data they need on results…
Kurt Bauschardt/Flickr Contributing Correspondent Gretchen Vogel talks about what can be learned from schools around the world that have reopened during the coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately,…
For now, Space Force is a part of the U.S. Air Force. Department of the Air Force By Sarah ScolesJul. 15, 2020 , 1:20 PM…
Ancient Egyptian wall art shows the Hyksos wore brightly colored clothes, whereas Egyptians often opted for white. FALKENSTEINFOTO/Alamy Stock Photo By Colin BarrasJul. 15, 2020…
A University of Colorado student uses an online simulator to design a circuit. GLENN J. ASAKAWA/UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER By Elizabeth PennisiJul. 15, 2020 ,…
By Meredith WadmanJul. 15, 2020 , 1:30 PM More than 1200 employees of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have written its…
The ring-shaped synchrotron building in Grenoble, France, is unchanged, but physicists have replaced the machine inside with a radical new design. ESRF/P. JAYET By Adrian…
By Ann GibbonsJul. 14, 2020 , 6:00 PM Prominent Andean scholar Gary Urton will retire from Harvard University, amid accusations that he sexually harassed former…
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was one of several universities that protested and filed lawsuits against a new visa restriction that would have forced international students…
Competitors Tim Janus, Joey Chestnut, and Matt Stonie (left to right) compete during the 2015 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York City.…
Data from Dutch mink farms hit by the coronavirus may shed more light on a mutation that has spread widely. FABIAN BIMMER/REUTERS/Newscom By Kai KupferschmidtJul.…
Chikwe Ihekweazu is worried about access to future COVID-19 vaccines, but says, “We are also not just sitting quietly and doing nothing.” James Duncan Davidson/TED (CC…
New guidelines call for researchers to report experiment details, such as animals’ housing and food, which can have big effects on reproducibility. fotografixx/iStock.com By Cathleen…
The National Science Foundation has disciplined 16 scientists for failing to disclose foreign ties. Maria B. Barnes/NSF By Jeffrey MervisJul. 14, 2020 , 12:00 PM…
Lithium being extracted from brine in Bolivia Noah Friedman-Rudovsky/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Robert F. ServiceJul. 13, 2020 , 5:05 PM Booming electric vehicle sales…
The 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes cracked highways and buildings in the California desert. They may also have primed a neighboring fault for rupture. AP Photo/Marcio Jose…
Andrés E. Brunetti By Elizabeth PennisiJul. 13, 2020 , 3:00 PM What color makes tree frogs so vibrantly green? The blue beneath their skin, of…
Complete data from COVID-19 testing sites in low-income areas, such as this one at Interbay Village in Seattle, are crucial to fighting the pandemic. DAVID…
An emergency response team on 11 January at work in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, initially said to be the source of…
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet may have collapsed as recently as 125,000 years ago. Mario Tama/Getty Images By Paul VoosenJul. 10, 2020 , 3:50 PM…
President Donald Trump holds the altered Hurricane Dorian forecast map that led to “Sharpiegate.” AP Photo/Evan Vucci By Nick Sobczyk, E&E NewsJul. 10, 2020 ,…