(left to right): DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART; WILLIAM B. LATTER (SIRTF SCIENCE CENTER/CALTECH) AND NASA/ESA; nobeastsofierce/shutterstock.com By Alex FoxApr. 19, 2019 , 3:10 PM How long…
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Turtle Rock Scientific/Science Source By Robert F. ServiceApr. 19, 2019 , 3:05 PM Solid-state batteries, which use solids instead of liquids to ferry ions through…
The Houston Chronicle By Mara HvistendahlApr. 19, 2019 , 12:00 PM HOUSTON, TEXAS—The MD Anderson Cancer Center here has ousted three senior researchers after the…
DARIA KIRPACH/@SALZMANART By Lizzie WadeApr. 18, 2019 , 4:45 PM The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) continues to battle fallout for the way it handled…
Carefull in Wyoming/Flickr This week we have two interviews from the annual meeting of AAAS in Washington D.C.: one on the history of food and…
By Jon CohenApr. 18, 2019 , 2:00 PM Like millions of people in the United States last year, Stanley Plotkin and his wife got vaccinated…
Tandem solar cells with two layers of perovskites aim to replace conventional silicon solar cells. iStock.com/DiyanaDimitrova By Robert F. ServiceApr. 18, 2019 , 2:00 PM…
© Stephanie Ware/Field Museum By Helen SantoroApr. 18, 2019 , 1:15 PM Some insects are easy to tell apart. Others, not so much. Some flat-backed…
Brent Woodfill By Lizzie WadeApr. 18, 2019 , 11:05 AM ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO—Archaeologists working in Guatemala have discovered the largest known figurine workshop in the…
Scientists say they can analyze genetic variations to predict who is most at risk of becoming obese. iStock.com/Rostislav_Sedlacek By Giorgia GuglielmiApr. 18, 2019 , 11:00…
MAURICIO ANTON By Munyaradzi MakoniApr. 18, 2019 , 12:15 AM When paleontologists dug up the bones of Africa’s largest carnivore in the early 1980s, they…
The enzyme that gives a powerful tool known as a “base editor” the ability to change DNA also has an off-target effect on RNA (above).…
A MERMAID undergoes testing off Japan’s coast in 2018. ALEX BURKY/PRINCETON UNIVERSITY By Erik StokstadApr. 17, 2019 , 3:15 PM A versatile, low-cost way to…
The black-legged tick can carry the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. ISTOCK.COM/DIETERMEYRL By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelApr. 17, 2019 , 3:00 PM Months after a U.S. Congress–mandated…
Elena Odareeva/Alamy Stock Photo By Angus ChenApr. 17, 2019 , 2:00 PM Buried within the ruins of an ancient village in central Turkey, alongside tools…
William B. Latter (SIRTF Science Center/Caltech); NASA/ESA By Daniel CleryApr. 17, 2019 , 2:00 PM The universe’s very first molecule, thought to be created after…
By Jon CohenApr. 16, 2019 , 8:25 PM Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, has exonerated “several” of its researchers who interacted with He Jiankui,…
Heat waves, like one in Australia in January, will get worse in a warming world. Matt King/Stringer/GETTY IMAGES By Paul VoosenApr. 16, 2019 , 3:55…
A head-only MRI scanner, under construction at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, is one of several portable imaging devices that could raise…
Senator Chuck Grassley (R–IA) has been concerned about foreign powers poaching U.S.-funded research. BILL CLARK/CQ ROLL CALL/AP IMAGE By Jeffrey MervisApr. 15, 2019 , 5:15…
Archaeologists excavate stone tombs at Ireland’s Primrose Grange. Göran Burenhult By Michael PriceApr. 15, 2019 , 3:15 PM Archaeologists have long been fascinated by the…
[embedded content] By Alex FoxApr. 15, 2019 , 3:00 PM The gall aphid’s home repair strategy gives new meaning to the phrase “sweat equity.” These…
Plant scientist Titus Alicai at work at the National Crops Resources Research Institute in Namulonge, Uganda, which receives funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates…
Researchers aboard the JOIDES Resolution examine a newly drilled sediment core that records the history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Vivien Cumming (IODP/ECORD) By…
A flyer referencing David Yesner’s attendance at the Society for American Archaeology’s annual meeting was displayed in a woman’s bathroom at the Albuquerque Convention Center…
NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University By Sid PerkinsApr. 15, 2019 , 11:15 AM When meteorites slam into the moon, they undoubtedly kick up a little dust. Now,…
A reconstruction of the bones of baby tyrannosaur Son of Sampson, which is on sale on eBay. Alan Detrich By Colin BarrasApr. 15, 2019 ,…
spiderstock/istockphoto By Alex FoxApr. 15, 2019 , 11:00 AM Microscopic fragments of plastic have invaded the farthest reaches of the sea, from the depths of…
Health workers at an Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was attacked earlier this year by armed men JOHN WESSELS/AFP/GETTY…
After a lengthy process, Boston University fired geologist David Marchant in the wake of a prominent sexual harassment case. Henry Zbyszynski/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) By…
(left to right): EVENT HORIZON TELESCOPE COLLABORATION ET AL.; CHRONICLE/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; © LOUIE PSIHOYOS By Alex FoxApr. 12, 2019 , 2:05 PM For the…
By Scott Waldman, E&E NewsApr. 12, 2019 , 8:20 AM Originally published by E&E News A controversial plan by the White House to review the…
Thomas Jessell, pictured in 2008 after winning the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, was ousted by Columbia University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for behavioral violations.…
Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), at today’s hearing of a Senate panel that oversees NIH’s budget. Senate Appropriations Committee By…
Space IL and Israel Aerospace Industries By Daniel CleryApr. 11, 2019 , 4:00 PM *Update, 11 April, 4 p.m.: Beresheet’s end came too quickly. Designed…
Examining the capabilities of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is a perennial topic for the Jason. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ronald…
A lengthy California drought left trees and plants parched and influenced their contributions to smog. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images By Jason PlautzApr. 11, 2019 , 3:10…
Florian Schiestl The ancient humans also known as the “hobbit” people (Homo floresiensis) might have company in their small stature with the discovery of another…
Kelso et al./Science By Robert F. ServiceApr. 11, 2019 , 2:00 PM To make the ultrathin crystalline films used in everything from solar cells to…
David Goodsell packs his watercolors of HIV, Ebola, and Zika viruses with realistic details. David Goodsell (CC-BY-4.0) By Jon CohenApr. 11, 2019 , 12:55 PM…
Decades of research have failed to yield any human pheromones. © LOUIE PSIHOYOS By Kai KupferschmidtApr. 11, 2019 , 12:30 PM CHICHELEY, U.K.—Jonathan Williams mostly…
Danielle Bassett with a representation of the brain’s structural connections, created in her lab from MRI data. MATTHEW BENDER/JAMES BARTOLOZZI By Kelly ServickApr. 11, 2019…
Silicon solar cells could get a boost in electrical output with a coating of perovskite materials. Lena Ason/Alamy Stock Photo By Robert F. ServiceApr. 10,…
Electron and Confocal Microscopy Unit By Helen SantoroApr. 10, 2019 , 2:25 PM While stopping and smelling the roses, keep an eye out for signs…
About 67,000 years ago, Callao Cave on Luzon in the Philippines was home to an unusual human. © CALLAO CAVE ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT By Lizzie WadeApr.…
This image reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. The black hole resides 55 million…
A. Cressler By Catherine MatacicApr. 10, 2019 , 7:00 AM There are places where the world of the living brushes up against the world of…
By Jeffrey Mervis, Anne FinkbeinerApr. 9, 2019 , 7:22 PM The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has severed its 60-year ties to a group of…
Mayan King K’inich Janaab’ Pakal is not taking off in a spaceship in this image from his seventh century sarcophagus, but falling into the underworld.…
The closed laboratory relied on cats to sustain its research program. WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT VIA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT By Meredith WadmanApr. 9, 2019…
By Jeffrey MervisApr. 9, 2019 , 2:35 PM Are you a scientist who wants to take a multidisciplinary, team approach to solving an important societal…
A device that measures the oxygen levels in different brain regions. Researchers have claimed this technology can allow locked-in patients to communicate. Artinis Medical Systems/Brite…
Brazil’s synchrotron light source, Sirius, is scheduled to launch later this year, but 80% of the funds it depends on have been frozen. Sebastiao Moreira/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock…
Jean-Pierre Luminet’s 1979 black hole visualization. Using computer data, he drew several thousand black dots on a white sheet by hand and took a photographic negative…
As we age, uncoupled brain waves scramble our short-term memory. Jackie Niam/shutterstock.com By Giorgia GuglielmiApr. 8, 2019 , 11:00 AM To read this sentence, you…
Sydney Brenner Andrew Cutraro/Redux By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelApr. 5, 2019 , 3:50 PM Sydney Brenner, the Nobel laureate whose studies on the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans led…
(left to right): THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY AT BROWN UNIVERSITY; ROGER HART/UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHY; JULIO LACERDA/STUDIO 252MYA By Alex FoxApr. 5, 2019 ,…
Clinical studies are testing whether cancer immunotherapy drugs work better when patients receive a fecal transplant. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press/AP Photo By Jocelyn KaiserApr. 5,…
Artist impressions show Hayabusa2 releasing the Small Carry-on Impactor (left) and the projectile hitting the asteroid, with an observation camera in the foreground and Hayabusa2…
An aerial shot of Aleppo, Syria, taken by a U-2 spy plane in 1959 E. Hammer et al., Advances in Archaeological Practice 10.1017 (2019) By…
By Warren CornwallApr. 5, 2019 , 11:25 AM When the Deepwater Horizon oil well spewed at least 518 million liters of oil into the Gulf…
Applying mild electrical pulses may help plastic surgeons reshape noses without a scalpel. Gerain0812/shutterstock.com By Robert F. ServiceApr. 5, 2019 , 10:55 AM ORLANDO, FLORIDA—Plastic…
James Petiver, 1695 A single factory in Malaysia supplies about 10% of the world’s rare earth oxides, used in everything from cellphones to lasers to…
Astronomers have discovered a small planet around a white dwarf, which in this artist’s conception is plowing through a disk of dust and leaving a…
[embedded content] By Elizabeth PennisiApr. 4, 2019 , 2:00 PM Bigger than a poppy seed but smaller than a sesame seed—and about as featureless to…
Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham touted the agency’s planning for the 2020 census at a press event this week. Michele R. Freda/U.S. Census Bureau By…
By Sam KeanApr. 4, 2019 , 10:00 AM At the dawn of the 1700s, European science seemed poised to conquer all of nature. Isaac Newton…
[embedded content] By David GrimmApr. 4, 2019 , 9:00 AM Give this a shot at home: Say four random words to your cat—separated by about…
Fish expert Larry Page of the Florida Museum in Gainesville shows off a standard setup for making digital images of specimens. Kristen Grace/Florida Museum By…
Heather Proctor By Helen SantoroApr. 4, 2019 , 8:00 AM Some things can’t be unseen. One is the final meal of a feather mite, a…
Future reserves could bar deep-sea trawlers from much of the high seas. © GREENPEACE/ROGER GRACE By Alex FoxApr. 3, 2019 , 8:01 PM No flag…
carolo7/iStockphoto By Jeffrey BrainardApr. 3, 2019 , 5:00 PM A U.S. federal judge has ordered the OMICS International publishing group to pay $50.1 million in…
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency By Robert F. ServiceApr. 3, 2019 , 2:45 PM ORLANDO, FLORIDA—An estimated 18 million Americans are at risk of lead leaching…
Roger Hart/University of Michigan Photography By Helen SantoroApr. 2, 2019 , 7:01 PM Texting while driving can be deadly. So can tweeting while flying, a…
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter (left) joins Oklahoma State University medical school President Kayse Shrum (right) to announce the settlement. Oklahoma State University Center for…
An artist’s impression of what Earth looked like during the Snowball Earth glaciations. Julio Lacerda/Studio 252MYA By Lucas JoelApr. 2, 2019 , 10:50 AM More…
Ashley M. Rasys and Hannah C. Schriever By Jon CohenApr. 1, 2019 , 4:45 PM The mighty genome editor CRISPR isn’t so powerful in lizards…
About 30% of the 1.5 million tons of residue stored on Lynas’s facility in Malaysia is slightly radioactive and covered with a black lining. Save…
National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt addressed sexual harassment in science on Capitol Hill last month. Cable Risdon By Meredith WadmanApr. 1, 2019 ,…
courtesy of Robert DePalma By Colin BarrasApr. 1, 2019 , 10:50 AM A fossil site in North Dakota records a stunningly detailed picture of the…
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler dismissed an auxiliary panel of air pollution experts last fall. Cliff Owen/AP Photo By Sean Reilly, E&E NewsMar. 29,…
(Left to right): UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI IN ST. LOUIS/ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO/CAROLINA HIDALGO; V. ALTOUNIAN/SCIENCE; JASON IRVING By Alex FoxMar. 29, 2019 , 3:20 PM…
[embedded content] By Edd GentMar. 29, 2019 , 3:10 PM Robot swarms could revolutionize everything from search and rescue missions to mining, but figuring out…
The walls of the Joint European Torus fusion reactor are lined with the same materials in the ITER, a much larger fusion reactor under construction. ©EUROfusion…
Thousands in Mozambique have been displaced by Cyclone Idai, one of the biggest ever to hit the flood-prone country. MIKE HUTCHINGS/REUTERS By Jeffrey BrainardMar. 29,…
Charged particles zipping through water in a nuclear reactor produce Cherenkov radiation. Argonne National Laboratory/Wikimedia commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) By Adrian ChoMar. 29, 2019 ,…
Ethan Daniels/Alamy Stock Photo By Jake BuehlerMar. 29, 2019 , 12:50 PM Whether it’s cargo ships, oil rigs, or sonar, humans make a lot of…
Some of the last Denisovans may have intermingled with modern humans in mountainous New Guinea or on nearby islands, DOZIER MARC/hemis.fr/Getty Images By Ann GibbonsMar.…
[embedded content] By Elizabeth PennisiMar. 29, 2019 , 9:00 AM The desert kangaroo rat is a black belt among rodents. In addition to living in…
A lung cancer (arrow) grew slowly before the patient received an immunotherapy drug, as seen in images made 7 weeks apart (left and center). Three…
Mark Smith/Flickr Southern California’s famous Santa Anita racetrack is struggling to explain a series of recent horse injuries and deaths. Host Meagan Cantwell is joined…
Jonathan E. Kolby/Honduras Amphibian Rescue & Conservation Center By Erik StokstadMar. 28, 2019 , 2:00 PM The infectious disease that has devastated the most biodiversity…
The Beresheet lander, 1.5 meters tall, will touch down in Mare Serenitatis. SPACEIL AND IAI By Daniel CleryMar. 28, 2019 , 1:30 PM For Israel,…
On the lookout for parasites and likely other pathogens, tuft cells (blue) are stationed among the microvilli-capped cells of the intestinal lining and many other…
Ross Fargher, rancher and landowner of Nilpena cattle station, in his wool shed. JASON IRVING By Elizabeth FinkelMar. 28, 2019 , 11:45 AM NILPENA CATTLE STATION…
Debomoy Lahiri is among the Indiana University plaintiffs challenging a state law that restricts his Alzheimer’s disease research using fetal tissue. TIM YATES/INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE…
The Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. Former Administrator Scott Pruitt said a policy was intended to ensure the objectivity of advisory panel members.…
Noni Byrnes leads the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Scientific Review in Bethesda, Maryland. NIH Image Gallery/Flickr By Jocelyn KaiserMar. 27, 2019 , 4:50…
Riko Muranaka did not provide evidence that research data were fabricated, a court in Tokyo said. Riko Muranaka By Dennis NormileMar. 27, 2019 , 4:00…
Riders arrive at the Santa Anita track in Southern California on 8 March. IRFAN KHAN/LOS ANGELES TIMES/GETTY IMAGES By Christa Lasté-LasserreMar. 27, 2019 , 3:20…
The story of Giraffatitan‘s discovery in eastern Africa long ignored the crimes of German colonialism and the scientific contributions of local residents. ANTJE DITTMANN/NATURAL HISTORY…
Protesters look for jailed friends during a protest against detention conditions in St. Louis, Missouri. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI IN ST. LOUIS/ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO/CAROLINA HIDALGO…
[embedded content] By Erik StokstadMar. 27, 2019 , 8:00 AM When water fleas detect certain predators lurking nearby, they grow tiny, sharp ridges below their…
Robert Coy/Alamy Stock Photo By Benjamin Storrow, E&E NewsMar. 26, 2019 , 2:55 PM Originally published by E&E News Global carbon levels reached a record…
Corrado Cimarelli By Sid PerkinsMar. 26, 2019 , 10:55 AM Much of the lightning that flickers around and within the ash plumes of erupting volcanoes…
By Richard StoneMar. 25, 2019 , 3:50 PM When the United States and allies struck a landmark nuclear accord with Iran in 2015, a key…
uschools/istockphoto By Science News StaffMar. 25, 2019 , 1:50 PM Duke University will pay $112.5 million to the U.S. government to settle a lawsuit brought…
Young neurons glow red in this brain tissue from a 68-year-old. LlorensLab By Emily UnderwoodMar. 25, 2019 , 12:00 PM One of the thorniest debates…
Habitat destruction has endangered the golden-cheeked warbler. Nature Photographers Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo By David AdamMar. 22, 2019 , 4:15 PM The golden-cheeked warbler sits just…
iStock.com/Highwaystarz- By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelMar. 22, 2019 , 2:50 PM Earlier this week, the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, a nonprofit housed at Johns Hopkins University…
(left to right): CHRONICLE/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; MIKAELA NORDBORG/AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE; ANDREA KANE/INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY By Alex FoxMar. 22, 2019 , 12:40 PM…
The cuckoo catfish is a deadbeat parent, leaving care of its young to others. Roberto Nistri/Alamy Stock Photo By Elizabeth PennisiMar. 22, 2019 , 9:00…
Another Alzheimer’s drug candidate targeting toxic β-amyloid (brown) has failed. NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING/NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH By Kelly ServickMar. 21, 2019 , 6:00 PM…
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Pirate’s gold may not be that far off, as there are valuable metals embedded in potato-size nodules thousands of meters down…
Early freezes or severe cold can damage apple trees, a possible cause of later, rapid deaths. The decline is more common among densely planted trellised…
By Warren CornwallMar. 21, 2019 , 2:00 PM THE NATIONAL SEA SIMULATOR IN TOWNSVILLE, AUSTRALIA—The rush starts at sunset, just before the first tiny pearls…
Drinking even moderate amounts of sweetened beverages could spur the growth of colon cancer, according to a study in mice. Mario Tama/Getty Images By Jocelyn…
A new research program on free will team up neuroscientists and philosophers. iStock.com/rudall30 By Bahar GholipourMar. 21, 2019 , 11:05 AM Philosophers have spent millennia…
[embedded content] By Alex FoxMar. 21, 2019 , 10:00 AM Humans are master impersonators—even infants can mimic the facial expressions of their friends and parents.…
Sistine Chapel (Cappella Sistina), by Michelangelo Buonarroti, 16th Century, fresco (post restoration), Buonarroti, Michelangelo (1475-1564)/Musei e Gallerie Pontificie, Musei Vaticani, Vatican City/Mondadori Portfolio/Bridgeman Images By…
The lava from the 2018 Kilauea eruption has cooled but still offers little to sustain plants or animals. USGS/POLARIS/NEWSCOM By Michael PriceMar. 20, 2019 ,…
Robert Arlinghaus with a sea trout he caught off the Danish coast Christian Skov By Erik StokstadMar. 20, 2019 , 12:10 PM For environmental conflict…
A noisy map of myelin in the brain (left) becomes more stable and sensitive (right) thanks to a new mathematical technique. M. BOUHRARA ET AL.,…
Barbara Marrs By John PickrellMar. 20, 2019 , 6:00 AM For the first time, researchers have found an unlaid egg inside a fossil bird. The…
Two merged images from 19 January show Bennu ejecting particles from its surface. NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin By Paul VoosenMar. 19, 2019 , 5:35 PM…
A researcher adjusts a microplate containing embryos undergoing gene editing with CRISPR. An expert panel has recommended that all such experiments be submitted to a…
The proposed budget for the National Science Foundation would continue funding a $410-million renovation of its McMurdo research station in Antarctica, where construction costs have…
In Japan, genetically modified products have to be labeled; an advisory panel did not say whether that should apply to gene-edited food as well. Shiho Fukada/Bloomberg/Getty…
Karen Uhlenbeck Andrea Kane By Allyn JacksonMar. 19, 2019 , 7:10 AM The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters today announced that Karen Uhlenbeck has…
An artist’s conception of the Mars 2020 rover. Several of its instruments are costing more than expected. NASA/JPL-Caltech By Paul VoosenMar. 18, 2019 , 10:28…
NASA’s InSight lander places a protective, dome-shaped shield above its seismometer. JPL-Caltech/NASA By Paul VoosenMar. 18, 2019 , 6:10 PM THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS—After months of…
[embedded content] By Paul VoosenMar. 18, 2019 , 4:00 PM THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS—As data streamed down last month from NASA’s New Year’s flyby of MU69,…
Oh Baby Productions/Alamy Stock Photo By Michael PriceMar. 18, 2019 , 3:00 PM Female twins who shared a womb with a man tend to get…
By Munyaradzi MakoniMar. 18, 2019 , 3:00 PM An appeals court in Kenya has dismissed charges of institutional racism at a U.K.-Kenyan research partnership. The…
National Science Foundation Director France Córdova, who represented the United States at a 2017 meeting in Italy of leading scientific nations, is trying to balance…
Biophysicist Joe Kirschvink and his team used brain recordings to search for a magnetic sixth sense in people. Spencer Lowell By Kelly ServickMar. 18, 2019…
J. W. Young/TMO/JPL/NASA By Daniel CleryMar. 15, 2019 , 5:05 PM Iridium flares are a familiar sight for sky watchers: The brilliant flashes take place…
HIV integrates its genome (yellow) into human chromosomes, and cells that indirectly copy that genome as they replicate may complicate cure efforts. David S. Goodsell/HIVE…
(left to right): Gary Waters/Getty Images; JULIO MANUEL VIDA ENCINAS; MOHD RASFAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Alex FoxMar. 15, 2019 , 2:30 PM Does a ‘dark triad’…
A historical image of police discovering a Jack the Ripper murder victim Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo By David AdamMar. 15, 2019 , 2:00 PM Forensic scientists…
These two skeletons at La Braña in northwest Spain belonged to brothers with dark hair and blue eyes who lived 8000 years ago and were…
ESO/L. Calçada Host Sarah Crespi talks with Staff Writer Daniel Clery about the many, many theories surrounding fast radio bursts—extremely fast, intense radio signals from…
An ancient woman from Romania shows an edgeto-edge bite (left). A Bronze Age man from Austria had a slight overbite (right). D. E. BLASI ET…
Kiri Ness of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital tests the leg strength of brain cancer survivor Isaac Walsh, now 21. SETH DIXON/ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH…
[embedded content] By Alex FoxMar. 14, 2019 , 10:00 AM Sea otters—the only marine mammals known to use stone tools—eat on the go by cracking…
By Daniel CleryMar. 14, 2019 , 9:30 AM PENTICTON, CANADA—Reporting from the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory here requires old-school techniques: pad and pen. Upon arrival,…
Among metal-rich nodules of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a sea anemone–like cnidarian trails 2-meter tentacles. DIVA AMON AND CRAIG SMITH By Paul VoosenMar. 14, 2019 ,…
A recent view of water vapor forming a rare “bomb cyclone” over the United States, captured by one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s…
Artificial pores in cells lining the lung release a compound (red) that fights infections that afflict cystic fibrosis patients. Rebecca Schultz By Robert F. ServiceMar.…
English Heritage Heritage Images/Newscom By Lizzie WadeMar. 13, 2019 , 2:00 PM More than 4000 years ago, people erected monumental circles of stones or wood…
Devon Santy/Flickr By Alex FoxMar. 13, 2019 , 2:00 PM Most waterfalls tell a clear story about their origins: Yosemite Falls in California cascades over…
Conducting research that alters human embryos with the genome editor CRISPR (shown here) would not be banned if a proposed moratorium goes in place, but…
iStock.com/SolStock By Katie LanginMar. 12, 2019 , 5:45 PM The job market for U.S. science and engineering Ph.D.s is about to pass a long-anticipated milestone.…
By Amy YeeMar. 13, 2019 , 8:00 AM UGANDA—The small pangolin tucked its head toward its belly and curled its tail around its body. Clad…
This medieval Hungarian man who had severe cleft palate received a hero’s burial. Luca Kis By Andrew CurryMar. 12, 2019 , 3:55 PM BERLIN—Researchers have…
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited an Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 9 March. L. Mackenzie/World Health Organization By Kai KupferschmidtMar.…
Ned Sharpless Daniel Sone/National Cancer Institute By Jocelyn KaiserMar. 12, 2019 , 2:45 PM Norman Sharpless, director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda,…
Novel fuel cells can help store electricity from renewables, such as wind farms, by converting it into a chemical fuel for long-term storage and then…
Gary Waters/Getty Images By David AdamMar. 12, 2019 , 10:45 AM The dark side of human personality has long fascinated the public and psychologists alike.…
Students sat in last week at the office of Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos in Nashville in support of #MeToo advocate BethAnn McLaughlin. Shun Ahmed/Vanderbilt…
Community health workers with the Population Effects of Antiretroviral Therapy to Reduce HIV Transmission study did door-to-door HIV testing of 1 million people annually for 3 years.…
Muntaser Ibrahim The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) By Linda NordlingMar. 11, 2019 , 2:20 PM A leading Sudanese geneticist has been imprisoned for speaking…
By Science News StaffMar. 11, 2019 , 12:13 PM For the third year in a row, President Donald Trump’s administration has unveiled a budget request…
(left to right): JOHN BAZEMORE/AP PHOTO; STEPHAN SCHMITZ; 3D4MEDICAL/SCIENCE SOURCE By Alex FoxMar. 8, 2019 , 1:30 PM Vaccine opponents attack U.S. science panel The…
Gary Waters/Getty Images By Jocelyn KaiserMar. 8, 2019 , 9:45 AM A headline-grabbing study out this week is adding to concerns about gender bias in…
Ife-Sungbo Archaeological Project New archaeological evidence suggests the same black plague that decimated Europe also took its toll on sub-Saharan Africa. Host Sarah Crespi talks…
By Charles PillerMar. 7, 2019 , 2:00 PM The most common chronic disease after obesity, afflicting 84 million Americans and more than 1 billion people…
Older group members demonstrate important behaviors for younger chimpanzees. Anna Preis/Taï Chimpanzee Project By Gretchen VogelMar. 7, 2019 , 2:00 PM When chimpanzees encounter humans,…
The sound or smell of predators can drive bushbucks into the forest, easing the impact of their foraging. MATTHEW C. HUTCHINSON By Elizabeth PennisiMar. 7,…
An electron microscope image of a flu virus James Cavallini/Science Source By Robert F. ServiceMar. 7, 2019 , 2:00 PM The flu season is at…
A cryomodule, a key component of the proposed International Linear Collider. © Rey.Hori/KEK By Dennis NormileMar. 7, 2019 , 12:20 PM The government of Japan…
Ian Towle By Michael PriceMar. 7, 2019 , 9:40 AM Add this to your list of nightmare jobs: prehistoric dentist. Had the profession existed 1.8…
Study co-author Marco Tedesco of Columbia University studies a rushing meltwater stream within Greenland’s Russell Glacier in July 2018. Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute, Columbia University By…
[embedded content] By Alex FoxMar. 6, 2019 , 5:45 PM With a long, broad snout filled to the brim with flesh-piercing teeth, the alligator gar,…
A report about Plan S’s potential effects on journals marks a busy week for the open-access movement
Plan S may significantly affect authors even in countries whose funders don’t sign on, a report says. ISTOCK.COM/PURPLEANVIL By Jeffrey BrainardMar. 6, 2019 , 4:45…
Destroying B cells, like the one shown here, helped mice with lupus revert to good health. 3D4Medical/Science Source By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelMar. 6, 2019 , 2:00…
iStock.com/LeeYiuTung By David MalakoffMar. 6, 2019 , 1:40 PM Think it’s getting harder to see the stars above your home? Now you can check whether…
Senators Lisa Murkowski (R–AK, right) and Joe Manchin (D–WV, left), the senior members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, confer during a…
Medieval Ethiopians adopted European plague saints, including St. Sebastian, shown here in a 17th century mural from a church in Ethiopia. Claire Bosc Tiesse and…
When stretched with light signals, rummy-nose tetra schools snap back like rubber bands thanks to purely social forces. Andriy Kotlyarov/shutterstock.com By Adrian ChoMar. 6, 2019…
There’s an arms race going on in this bird nest. Scientists are uncovering how each side fights back
Even though foreign blue and brownish speckled eggs don’t match the mockingbird’s own blue-green spotted egg, they still tended to be accepted by the parent…
[embedded content] By Lakshmi SupriyaMar. 5, 2019 , 11:00 AM Falling drops usually make a splash, but these drops do the twist. Researchers have created…
Timothy Ray Brown’s HIV cure may no longer be unique. Daniel Jack Lyons By Jon CohenMar. 4, 2019 , 6:05 PM Timothy Ray Brown, aka…
[embedded content] By Erica TennenhouseMar. 4, 2019 , 3:15 PM Placozoa—the simplest multicelled animals ever described—live without muscles, nervous tissues, or digestive systems. To eat,…
David Laylin (right) has crisscrossed Iran helping connect Western and local conservationists. He and Iranian wildlife biologist Farhad Atai (left) visited the ruins of Alamut…
K.J. Moore, a traveling nurse. told a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine panel last week that she is upset by mandates that health…
Syngenta researcher Shujie Dong isolates corn embryos to genome edit them with CRISPR. J. Cohen/Science By Jon CohenMar. 4, 2019 , 11:00 AM The genome…
National Cancer Institute By Jeffrey MervisMar. 1, 2019 , 1:55 PM The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recently sent letters to dozens of major…
(left to right): CHIEN LEE; BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; RIJASOLO By Alex FoxMar. 1, 2019 , 1:30 PM This amazing blue tarantula is a new spider…
Patrons of the library at University of California in Berkeley will no longer have easy access to journals from the publisher Elsevier. chuckstock/shutterstock.com By Alex…
A new “fast” nuclear reactor would work a bit like the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II, which ran until 1994 at what is now Idaho National Laboratory.…
Martin Luff/Flickr In the wake of a devastating earthquake, assessing the extent of damage to infrastructure is time consuming—now, a cheap sensor system based on…
Cod in the North Sea have suffered from rising temperatures, as well as overfishing. PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo By Erik StokstadFeb. 28, 2019 , 2:00…
The back-and-forth songs of Alston’s singing mouse (Scotinomys teguina) could share mechanisms with human conversation. Christopher Auger-Dominguez By Kelly ServickFeb. 28, 2019 , 2:00 PM…
After being treated for severe malnutrition at Ifanadiana District Hospital, this girl is about to go home. RIJASOLO By Leslie RobertsFeb. 28, 2019 , 2:00…
This rice has had some of its DNA bases altered by a form of the genome editor CRISPR, but some of them were not the…
By Jocelyn KaiserFeb. 28, 2019 , 12:30 PM The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, today responded to ongoing criticism of how the…
Cardiac arrest kills most victims outside the hospital. Could an artificial heart-lung machine help?
A team in the University of Utah Health eCPR Program puts a patient on the life support machinery. A consortium at the university is gathering data on…
He Jiankui (left), discussing his creation of genetically altered babies, prompted China to issue tighter regulations on gene-editing experiments. Imaginechina/AP Images By Dennis NormileFeb. 28,…
Mice injected with specialized nanoparticles can see infrared light showing various patterns and shapes to help them navigate a water maze. Yuqian Ma, Wenyang Yi,…