Across North America, hundreds of bird species waste time and energy raising chicks that aren’t their own. They’re the victims of a “brood parasite” called…
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Kyoto University plans to disband its celebrated Primate Research Institute (PRI) because of the misuse of government funds under former Director Tetsuro Matsuzawa. By March…
FISHERIES SCIENCE Overruling scientists, Florida board authorizes fishing of the vulnerable goliath grouper A Florida commission voted last week to again allow fishing of the…
Mark Redwine kept mementos of his youngest son in the cab of his truck. The boy’s name, Dylan, is tattooed on his left shoulder. He…
When sea otters dig for clams in seagrass meadows, they leave a pockmarked “moonscape” in their wake. It’s “full of craters, just pits everywhere,” says…
The World Health Organization (WHO) today unveiled a new team to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Scientific Advisory Group on the Origins…
Seventeen years ago, botanist Miriam van Heist of Wageningen University and a team of local collaborators set out to explore plant diversity in the Foja…
The World Health Organization (WHO) today unveiled a new team to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Scientific Advisory Group on the Origins…
For the first time in 3 decades, Florida is planning to allow recreational fishing of one of the world’s largest and most embattled gamefish. But…
Just a meter or two down, below the topsoil that nurtures crops, is a little known part of the ecosystem that may be critical to…
Ask children around the world to draw a scientist and they’ll most likely sketch an older white man. Now, a new way to break down…
China is set to take advantage of an international stage to show it’s serious about protecting the planet’s threatened species and ecosystem. At a United…
CLINICAL RESEARCH Merck unveils first pill to treat COVID-19 An experimental antiviral drug with a controversial history may become the first oral medication to help…
On 19 December 2019, Tony Tyson, an experimental physicist at the University of California (UC), Davis, joined a conference call with billionaire Elon Musk that…
When the sudden, terrifying deaths hit in early June in Banalia, a small mining community in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), some people…
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Pioneering modeling work on the causes and signs of human-induced climate change and on disordered physical systems—squeezed together under the umbrella of complex systems—are honored…
Al menos cuatro científicas han denunciado recientemente por acoso y hostigamiento sexual al reconocido especialista en genética de plantas Jean-Philippe Vielle Calzada, investigador del Laboratorio…
Physician-geneticist Francis Collins, who had led the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 12 years under three presidents, will step down by the end…
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Two researchers who elucidated key molecules that control the sense of touch have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. David Julius and…
A pill given early after infection with SARS-CoV-2 cuts in half a person’s risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19, according to results announced today…
Women scientists have recently filed at least four formal complaints of sexual harassment against renowned plant geneticist Jean-Philippe Vielle Calzada, a senior researcher at Mexico’s…
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Hillsboro, Oregon—Though he catches flak for it, Garrett Kenyon, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, calls artificial intelligence (AI) “overhyped.” The algorithms that underlie…
Color is a spectrum: Red fades from orange to yellow, whereas green merges to turquoise, then blue. Languages treat this spectrum in different ways: Some…
In December 2020, a 110-million-year-old dinosaur from Brazil stunned scientists with its furlike filaments and the spearlike feathers sprouting from its shoulders. But Ubirajara jubatus,…
For years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been trying to boost the success rate of Black scientists who apply for grants by offering…
Identical twins are living proof of how genetics shapes our looks and traits. Now, researchers have found they carry a molecular signature on their DNA…
GPS has transformed everything from driving to search and rescue. But it currently relies on government-run satellites that have trouble peering into canyons and forests—and…
One year ago, environmental engineer Chris Frey was an outcast and a rebel at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), issuing scathing critiques of its treatment…
Barely 1 month after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, the erosion of academic life is gathering pace. At least 70 lecturers and professors at…
Centuries before the rise of the Roman Republic, a different culture dominated the Italian Peninsula: The Etruscans, a sophisticated civilization whose heartland was in and…
COVID-19 Aiding pandemic fight, India pledges to export vaccine again India said this week its vaccine manufacturers will resume exporting COVID-19 shots in October, potentially…
The bizarre symptoms had tormented Sarkis Hagopian since he was a young child crawling around his Pittsburgh home. Every so often, one of his knees…
In 2016, a girl named Cora Stetson was born in Boston. Within 48 hours, hospital staff pricked her heel to get a drop of blood…
Seahorses are some of the most dazzling fish in the sea. They’re also the only group of animals in which the males, not the females,…
Between 23,000 and 21,000 years ago, people squished through the mud along a lakeshore in what is now New Mexico, alone and in small groups,…
The peopling of Polynesia was a stunning achievement: Beginning around 800 C.E., audacious Polynesian navigators in double-hulled sailing canoes used the stars and their knowledge…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s pledge to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday that his country “will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad” was welcome…
The human penchant for bling is ancient—and a new study suggests it may go back as far as 142,000 years. That’s when hunter-gatherers in what…
Public health authorities have long worried that the emergence in Africa of malaria resistant to artemisinin was only a matter of time. Parasites that can…
Mammals from mice to monkeys have tails. But humans and our cousins the great apes lack them. Now, researchers may have unearthed a simple genetic…
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Malheur National Forest in Oregon—In a Sun-dappled glade here, James Johnston could see two possible futures for the forests that blanket the Blue Mountains. During…
Conservation Ban on deep-sea mining sought A conservation congress last week called for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining until strict reviews are put in…
More than 5000 years ago, nomads known today as the Yamnaya rumbled out of the grasslands of modern-day Russia and Ukraine in heavy, ox-drawn wagons.…
Microbes that live in hot springs and hydrothermal vents have long fascinated scientists for their ability to survive at temperatures exceeding 100°C. Now, these “extremophiles”…
“Why not just potty train the cows?” That’s what a radio jockey asked animal behaviorist Lindsay Matthews during a 2007 interview about how cow urine…
A federal judge yesterday acquitted a former University of Tennessee engineering professor who had been accused of lying to NASA and trying to hide his…
CLIMATE Ida’s fury spares Louisiana labs, but staff face challenges Research laboratories in Louisiana emerged largely unscathed from last week’s Hurricane Ida, despite worries that…
Next year, NASA’s first mission to the lunar surface in 50 years will be run from an unlikely place: a low-slung building wedged between fast-food…
In January 2020, as COVID-19 spread insidiously, research funders and journal publishers recognized their old ways wouldn’t do. They needed to hit the gas pedal…
Two decades after a now-banned drug nearly wiped out vultures in several Asian countries, conservationists have identified another pharmaceutical threat to these ecologically vital scavengers.…
The mothership has landed. Two years after scientists dubbed one of Earth’s first sea-dwelling predators the “Millennium Falcon” for its sci-fi carapace, the same researchers…
The elusive goal of fusion energy may be a lot closer to reality thanks to a new type of superconducting magnet. Or so claim researchers…
When early farmers of the Vinca culture first sowed barley and wheat 7700 years ago in the rich soil of the Danube River and its…
On the train home from work on 16 January 2020, Thijs Kuiken made a troubling discovery. A veterinary pathologist at Erasmus University Medical Center in…
The 2020 U.S. census released last month is more than a snapshot of the country’s 331 million residents. It is also a promise from the…
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the “lab leak” theory gained little traction. Sure, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested SARS-CoV-2 originated in a…
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Matthew Fontaine Maury simply couldn’t give up the fight for slavery. In 1861, the pioneering ocean researcher and former superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory…
As Hurricane Ida pounded New Orleans Sunday night, Tulane University virologist Robert Garry bedded down on a couch outside his lab, girding for the worst.…
Israel’s nationwide campaign to provide its population with COVID-19 vaccine boosters appears to benefit recipients. A third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine significantly lowers the…
If you know what to look for in dappled satellite images of desert—slight depressions, subtle color shifts—the dried-up ghosts of prehistoric lakes pop out against…
Roughly every 10 years since the 1960s, U.S. astronomers have provided a valuable show of consensus to U.S. funding agencies and Congress by agreeing on…
By Jon CohenAug. 31, 2021 , 6:45 AM In what has become an all too familiar—and depressing—outcome in the decadeslong search for an effective AIDS…
An artist’s concept of a planet being eaten by its parent star. NASA/ESA/G. Bacon By Adam MannAug. 30, 2021 , 1:15 PM Like the Greek…
President Joe Biden asked U.S. intelligence agencies to probe whether the COVID-19 pandemic began naturally or from a laboratory leak. So far, they don’t have…
Nonstick pans often rely on the repellant properties of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. ppengcreative/iStock By XiaoZhi LimAug. 27, 2021 , 4:50 PM Last month, a…
Magnets called undulators stretch roughly 100 meters down a tunnel at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, with one side (right) producing hard x-rays and the other soft x-rays.…
The greater infectiousness of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 has scientists and governments debating whether booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines are needed in some countries given…
Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine—but no infection parties, please
A Jerusalem healthcare worker last January prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine designed to prevent COVID-19. AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images By Meredith WadmanAug.…
Unionized graduate students at the University of Michigan went on strike in September 2020 to protest the university’s reopening policies and COVID-19 safety measures. Luke…
Crushed between two tiny gems in this diamond anvil cell, a compound of carbon, sulfur, and hydrogen showed signs of superconductivity at room temperature. J.…
New insights into endometriosis, predicting RNA folding, and the surprising career of the spirometer
C. Bickel/Science News Intern Rachel Fritts talks with host Sarah Crespi about a new way to think about endometriosis—a painful condition found in one in…
Crushed between two tiny gems in this diamond anvil cell, a compound of carbon, sulfur, and hydrogen showed signs of superconductivity at room temperature. J.…
A nurse administers the Sputnik V vaccine at a vaccination center in Moscow on 4 August. Only about 22% of the Russian population is fully…
Herculaneum was covered by Mount Vesuvius’s eruption in 79 C.E., but unlike Pompeii, many human remains there were well preserved. Luciano Fattore/Sapienza University of Rome…
A surgeon in Nice, France, begins a procedure to help diagnose suspected endometriosis in a patient. BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images By Rachel FrittsAug.…
Maria Van Kerkhove of the World Health Organization Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP By Kai KupferschmidtAug. 25, 2021 , 2:00 PM This week, U.S. intelligence agencies…
A person in Washington, D.C., is injected with the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine in April. The company says new data support giving a booster…
Staffan Widstrand/NPL/Minden Pictures By Andrew CurryAug. 25, 2021 , 11:00 AM Sweden’s brown bears nearly disappeared in the early 1900s, the victims of enthusiastic trophy…
© Bernd Schöllhorn and Serge Berthier By David ShultzAug. 24, 2021 , 7:01 PM One of the brightest green glows in the animal kingdom doesn’t…
Researchers will measure many atmospheric processes above Gothic Mountain that ultimately deliver water to the Colorado River. U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement User…
“I wish I had a good story,” says Duke University behavioral scientist Dan Ariely. “And I just don’t.” LENGEMANN/WELT/ULLSTEIN BILD/GETTY IMAGES By Cathleen O’GradyAug. 24,…
By Meredith WadmanAug. 21, 2021 , 3:16 AM The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) on Friday fired the prominent biologist David Sabatini after an investigation of…
By Meredith WadmanAug. 21, 2021 , 3:16 AM The Whitehead Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Friday fired biologist David Sabatini for…
Israel has started to administer COVID-19 booster shots to people ages 40 and older. MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images By Gretchen VogelAug. 20, 2021 , 6:05…
Students of the American University of Afghanistan receive their diplomas during a May 2019 ceremony. Thirteen people were killed during an attack on the university…
A 1991 eruption from Mount Pinatubo sent global temperatures plummeting. ARLAN NAEG/AFP via Getty Images By Paul VoosenAug. 19, 2021 , 4:15 PM There are…
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Kai Staats Contributing Correspondent Michael Price joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the newest Mars analog to be built on the location of the first…
By Cathleen O’GradyAug. 19, 2021 , 2:00 PM When Ahana Fernandez and her colleagues trek through the rainforests of Central America, they keep their ears…
Researchers plan to host new experiments in this pressurized, sealed greenhouse on the Biosphere 2 campus in Arizona. Trent Tresch By Michael PriceAug. 19, 2021…
By Rachel FrittsAug. 19, 2021 , 11:00 AM A rattlesnake’s maracalike tail shake sends a clear message to any intruder foolish enough to approach: “Stay…
A tent at a Singapore hospital in December 2003 screened patients for severe acute respiratory syndrome. THOMAS WHITE/REUTERS/Newscom By Jon CohenAug. 18, 2021 , 5:15 PM…
By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Aug. 18, 2021 , 1:00 PM Remember that mouthwatering meal you had 20 years ago at that unforgettable restaurant? Old cuttlefish…
With surveys, excavations, and other archaeological methods, a team led by Dawid Kobiałka (center) located a mass grave in the woods of Poland’s “Death Valley.”…
Volunteers in Boston and dozens of other U.S. cities are collecting data on urban heat islands. Museum of Science, Boston By Anil OzaAug. 17, 2021…
More than a decade ago, the world’s most energetic laser started to unleash its blasts on tiny capsules of hydrogen isotopes, with managers promising it…
Medical staff at a COVID-19 isolation unit in Ashkelon, Israel, last week. Officials worry a steep surge in cases will soon fill Israeli hospitals. Gil…
An artist’s impression of a Dyson sphere surrounding a star Dotted Yeti/Shutterstock By Ian RandallAug. 16, 2021 , 4:50 PM In the long-running TV show…
Loretta is among 77 chimpanzees at a sanctuary in Georgia that may soon self-administer an experimental vaccine designed to protect them from COVID-19. Fred Rubio/Project…
Grizzly bears in the central coastal region of British Columbia. Michelle Valberg By Rachel FrittsAug. 13, 2021 , 1:25 PM The bears and Indigenous humans…
Windmills, seen from a high-speed train traveling from Beijing to Zhangjiakou, in China’s Hebei province. Climate advocates want China to set more ambitious targets for…
Wisconsin officials want to allow hunters to kill as many as 300 gray wolves—more than a third of the state’s wolf population—during a hunt in…
Stephan Schmitz By Charles PillerAug. 12, 2021 , 2:19 PM Juan Celedón, a respected pulmonary researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, wanted to address an…
Climate change is altering intermittent streams, such as this one in California’s Death Valley. TIM FITZHARRIS/MINDEN By Erik StokstadAug. 12, 2021 , 2:15 PM Small…
Little children outpace older adults in their kindergarten’s weekly visit to a nursing home in Switzerland. BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images By Ann GibbonsAug.…
Filip Patock/Flickr Charles Piller, an investigative journalist for Science, talks with host Sarah Crespi about a risky trial of vitamin D in asthmatic children that…
By Claire HoganAug. 12, 2021 , 1:35 PM When stars run out of fuel, they can collapse under their own gravity, exploding as supernovae that…
An artist’s rendition of OSIRIS-Rex during its visit to the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona By Daniel CleryAug. 11, 2021 , 7:30 PM Mark the…
People who received an infusion of antibodies targeting a protein on this sporozoite stage of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite were protected from malaria. Dennis Kunkel…
Boosting the use of hydrogen fuels, such as those dispensed at this station in California, is one focus of a new infrastructure bill. David Paul…
Katty Huertas By David GrimmAug. 11, 2021 , 2:00 PM PHILADELPHIA—The main door of Sunny Shin’s lab is plastered with pictures of happier times: Shin…
Steven Chu, who was then U.S. secretary of energy, visits the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis in 2012. U.S. Department of Energy/Flickr By Adrian ChoAug.…
A gene therapy trial halted this week aims to treat cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy, a disease that destroys nerve-insulating myelin (stained in blue in a micrograph of…
An artist’s rendering shows interlocking, 3D, puzzle-shaped cells in walnut (left) and pistachio shells (right). Sebastian J. Antreich By Christa Lesté-LasserreAug. 10, 2021 , 7:01…
A Uyghur man sits in a teahouse in China’s Xinjiang province, where government surveillance is intense. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images By Dennis NormileAug. 10, 2021 ,…
By Meagan CantwellAug. 10, 2021 , 11:00 AM Animals make camouflaging look easy. Some have static patterns that make them hard to spot, whereas others—such…
The newest known carnivorous plant, Triantha occidentalis, digests insects that are trapped by sticky hairs on its flowering stalk. Adam Schneider By Erik StokstadAug. 9,…
Enterococcus species like the one pictured here became much more abundant in old mice following fecal transplants from young ones. Eye of Science/Science Source By…
Firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire in Athens, Greece, on 5 August. New methods allow scientists to more accurately describe the role of climate change in…
Novavax, based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, announced a setback this week in its quest for U.S. Food and Drug Administration emergency use authorization of its COVID-19…
By Joshua Rapp LearnAug. 6, 2021 , 5:35 PM When it comes to avoiding sexually aggressive males, some female dragonflies play dead. Others, according to…
DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART By Cathleen O’GradyAug. 6, 2021 , 3:53 PM The United Kingdom currently has one of the highest rates of open-access publication in…
LOUISE MURRAY/Science Source By Anil OzaAug. 6, 2021 , 2:50 PM Any ordinary person looking at the rainbow-colored map of Canberra, Australia, would see just…
Air intakes on Boston’s Prudential Center loom over Joseph Allen, who stresses the need to draw more outside air into buildings. Ken Richardson By Douglas…
By Elizabeth PennisiAug. 5, 2021 , 2:00 PM Vladislava Urazova has nothing on fox squirrels. Sure, this year’s Russian gold medalist executed mind-bending twirls and…
Marquette LaForest/Flickr International News Editor Martin Enserink talks with host Sarah Crespi about a moratorium on prion research after the fatal brain disease infected two…
A suspected COVID-19 patient receives care in Turku, Finland, the first country to join Solidarity’s new phase. By Kai KupferschmidtAug. 5, 2021 , 1:25 PM…
Crowds on Bourbon Street in New Orleans in late July. The coronavirus Delta variant is driving record-breaking case counts in Louisiana and other states. Kathleen…
Members of the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan in March 2020. Some are hopeful that the extremist group will allow polio campaigns to continue if it…
New Yorkers, like those at this Brooklyn mobile pharmacy, can now get $100 for getting a COVID-19 vaccine shot. Spencer Platt/Getty Images By Anil OzaAug.…
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe Teamrat Ghezzehei By Adrian ChoAug. 3, 2021 , 6:45 PM President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of…
Jelger Herder/Minden Pictures By Alex ViverosAug. 3, 2021 , 4:49 PM If there’s one defining trait of daddy longlegs, it has to be their legs.…
Black participants in a genetic study were more likely to decline information about any unexpected disease mutations it found. AP Photo/Dake Kang By Meredith WadmanAug.…
By Meagan CantwellAug. 2, 2021 , 4:37 PM Most black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) nest on sandy beaches in Hawaii—but rising sea levels threaten their eggs…
Divers collected samples of these colorful microbial mats to understand their role in oxygenating Earth. Phil Hartmeyer/NOAA Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary By Elizabeth PennisiAug.…
Purified polycrystalline tin selenide could form the basis for cheap devices that convert waste heat to electricity. Northwestern University By Robert F. ServiceAug. 2, 2021…
Hybrid corn plants owe some of their vigor to soil microbes. Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images By Erik StokstadJul. 29, 2021 , 4:35…
Rescue workers enter a station of Zhengzhou, China’s Metro Line 5 to inspect floodwaters on 26 July. China Daily via REUTERS By Dennis NormileJul. 29,…
Wasp larvae (yellow) kill a cabbage butterfly caterpillar—which might have survived had it been infected by a virus, first. Silvia Reiche/Minden By Mennatalla IbrahimJul. 29,…
Jason Solo/Jacky Winter Group First this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the paradox of metabolically healthy obesity. They chat…
Carrie Ann Rainey, hiking in Louisiana, belongs to a body-positive outdoor group. “We’re not all the same” when it comes to obesity, one researcher says.…
The gray wolf is not in danger of extinction, but its green list status shows how much more it needs to recover. Tim Fitzharris/Minden Pictures…
A magnified look at the branching patterns that a study’s researcher says resemble the structures left behind by modern horny sponges. E. C. Turner By…
A worker preps a vaccine in Qatar, where a study found Moderna’s jab blocked more than 90% of asymptomatic COVID-19 infections. KARIM JAAFAR/AFP via Getty…
Émilie Jaumain in 2010, the year she was exposed to prions during a lab accident. She died in 2019 at age 33. ARMEL HOUEL By Barbara…
This false color image shows how much the cells within various section of honeycomb are skewed, with their orientations varying by 10% (yellow), 20% (green),…
The Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., wanted to prevent Nobel laureate Yuan Lee, a Taiwanese chemist seen here in 2003, from speaking at a high-profile…
California’s Lake Oroville has shriveled in a severe, persistent drought, one of many climate impacts that models predict will swiftly worsen. ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images…
Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s proclamation is “a policy of discrimination based on nationality,” says Hu Desheng, a doctoral candidate in computer science at Northeastern…
Doctors recommend that organ transplant patients like liver recipient Andrea Lopez Robles of Madrid continue to take precautions such as wearing a mask and social…
The 2017 detection of an odd intersellar object dubbed `Oumuamua (arist representation above) prompted this week’s launch of a project to search for alien technology…
From the laser and gas target (left) to the undulators (blue) and electromagnetic spectrometer (right), the novel free-electron laser measures just 12 meters in length.…
UNESCO had recommended listing the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger” in part to call out Australia’s inaction on climate change. Peter Adams Photography/Alamy Stock…
A sulphur-crested cockatoo opens the lid of a household garbage can. Barbara Klump/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior By Cathleen O’GradyJul. 22, 2021 , 2:00…
Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and what earthquakes on Mars reveal about the Red Planet’s core
C. Bickel/Science First this week, Associate Editor Kelly Servick joins us to discuss a big push to develop scalable blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease and…
Anuj Shrestha By Jyoti MadhusoodananJul. 22, 2021 , 11:55 AM To pediatrician Nader Shaikh, the rhythm of treating babies running high fevers is familiar. After…
Computers can now rapidly and reliably predict the 3D shape of most proteins, such as this structure from a fruit fly. DeepMind By Robert F.…
The star and planets in this Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array radio image cannot be seen—these wavelengths reveal only dust. The bright dot at the center…
“Paver” stones like these will be Perseverance’s first drilling target. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS By Paul VoosenJul. 21, 2021 , 5:30 PM After months of spaceflight, an 8-minute…
A scientist at C2N Diagnostics prepares to analyze blood samples with mass spectrometry. JERRY NAUNHEIM By Kelly ServickJul. 21, 2021 , 2:30 PM When the…
A Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is administered at a mobile clinic in Los Angeles county, which has pockets of vaccine hesitancy. Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via…
Katty Huertas By Elizabeth PennisiJul. 20, 2021 , 5:10 PM Just before dawn in the Jama-Coaque Ecological Reserve, a patch of Ecuador’s lush coastal forest,…
This kingfisher stunning its prey may spread DNA of both species into the air. Kevin Elsby/FLPA/Minden Pictures By Erik StokstadJul. 20, 2021 , 4:35 PM…
Flash floods caught many communities in Germany, including the town of Insul, by surprise, leading to at least 165 deaths. AP Photo/Michael Probst By Warren…
The strange “Cow” explosion, the right hand of two bright spots below and to the right of the galactic center, may be an odd variety…
The massive jets of material shooting out of Centaurus A’s center are powered by a matter-guzzling black hole. NASA/CXC/SAO; Rolf Olsen; NASA/JPL-Caltech; NRAO/AUI/NSF/University of Hertfordshire/M.…
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wants China to allow a biosecurity audit of some of its virology labs. Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone vía AP By…
The animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says it photographed this chinchilla, with apparently chewed fur, at Moulton Chinchilla Ranch in…
The Hubble Space Telescope, seen here during its initial deployment in 1990 by Space Shuttle Discovery, appears to have been fixed again after another near-death…
But Graham Hatfull, a microbiologist at the University of Pittsburgh, wonders whether there couldn’t be other large viruses, similar to the bacteria-invading viruses that he…
The core of Iran’s Tehran Research Reactor glows (center) in this 2010 photo. The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images By Richard StoneJul. 15, 2021 ,…
Irfan Rashid/Department of Geoinformatics/University of Kashmir First this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a new series on how COVID-19…
In Kenya, a spotted hyena relaxes with her 12- to 14-week-old cubs, who will inherit her allies. Suzi Eszterhas/Minden Pictures By Elizabeth PennisiJul. 15, 2021…
A new artificial intelligence program readily predicts the structure of protein complexes, such as the immune signal interleukin-12 (blue) bound to its receptor. Ian Haydon/Institute…
The Crab nebula is the remains of a supernova more than 6000 light-years away—too far to harm Earth. NASA; ESA; J. Hester and A. Loll/Arizona…
A mysterious undersea volcano snapped by a submersible Copyright ROV Team GEOMAR By Akila RaghavanJul. 15, 2021 , 10:15 AM In 2015, a German research…
Google researchers experimented on their Sycamore chip, designed to demonstrate quantum error correction. Google By Adrian ChoJul. 14, 2021 , 6:30 PM Physicists at Google…
EIKO OJALA By Kelly ServickJul. 14, 2021 , 5:00 PM A man unable to speak after a stroke has produced sentences through a system that…
Flags mark the locations of antennas designed to detect radio pulses from neutrino collisions in the ice. CHRISTOPH WELLING/RNO-G COLLABORATION/DESY By Daniel CleryJul. 14, 2021…
By Joel GoldbergJul. 14, 2021 , 1:00 PM Nearly every museum in the world sports plastic objects, from vintage phones to foam art masterpieces. Some…
The Public Hospitals of Paris are a world-leading clinical trial center, but they are laggards at reporting trial results. Emile LUIDER/REA/Redux By Barbara CasassusJul. 14,…
KATTY HUERTAS By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelJul. 13, 2021 , 2:35 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. Sixteen pandemic months have felt disorienting…
By Rachel FrittsJul. 13, 2021 , 11:15 AM The small beads of sweat your fingertips produce while you sleep could power wearable sensors that measure…
By Science News StaffJul. 12, 2021 , 3:45 PM Given the availability of more money, spending panels in the U.S. House of Representatives are proposing…
Some 66 million years ago an asteroid slammed into what is now the Gulf of Mexico, triggering the dinosaurs’ extinction—and a massive tsunami. MARK GARLICK/Science Source…
Funding from the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research has helped the University of South Carolina develop such facilities as its McNair Center for Aerospace…
At 3600 meters on Mount Gargash, the Iranian National Observatory enjoys favorable seeing conditions. Parsa Bigdeli By Richard StoneJul. 12, 2021 , 12:50 PM For Sepehr…
In this Spanish cave, white tags show layers of soil to be sampled for ancient DNA. Zinovi Matskevich By Elizabeth PennisiJul. 12, 2021 , 11:00…
By Meagan CantwellJul. 9, 2021 , 12:30 PM In 2016, the residents of Isle de Jean Charles, a small strip of land off the coast…
The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is a forum for discussions of research security. Maxwell MacKenzie/National Academy of Sciences By Jeffrey MervisJul.…
A 19th century collection of 1300 skulls—symbolized here by white dots—includes some from enslaved people. Johnalynn Holland By Lizzie WadeJul. 8, 2021 , 2:52 PM…
A new material (right) significantly reduces body heat compared to regular cotton (left), as seen in this infrared image. S. Zheng, et. al., Science (2021)…
K. Baumer et al., Science Advances 2021 First this week, Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp talks with author Patrick Radden Keefe about his book Empire of Pain…
Davide Bonazzi/Salzman Art By Jop de VriezeJul. 7, 2021 , 5:10 PM More than half of Dutch scientists regularly engage in questionable research practices, such…