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Fetal brain tissue is used in research on Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases. Steve Gschmeissner/Science Source By Kelly ServickApr. 16, 2021 , 6:15 PM The…
Legislators this week began to debate the National Science Foundation’s future. iStock.com/WLDavies By Jeffrey MervisApr. 15, 2021 , 3:20 PM The U.S. Congress this week…
Collector Mauricio Fernández Garza poses with a prized fossil specimen (left) and the cover of the Science issue in which a new shark species was…
By Joel GoldbergApr. 15, 2021 , 2:00 PM It’s no secret that warming temperatures are transforming landscapes in extreme northern regions. In Alaska, where wildfires…
Lewis Kelly/Flickr Host Sarah Crespi talks with Staff Writer Adrian Cho about a new measurement of the magnetism of the muon—an unstable cousin of the…
Researchers excavating Estatuas cave in Spain found a long record of Neanderthal DNA in the sediments. © JAVIER TRUEBA/MADRID SCIENTIFIC FILMS By Ann GibbonsApr. 15,…
A pancoronavirus vaccine might contain a nanoparticle carrier (gray) that holds several different versions of the viral spike protein (other colors). (Illustration) V. Altounian/Science; (Data)…
Iran’s Sharif University of Technology has helped drive an increase in the country’s published scientific papers. Masoud K/Flickr/Wikimedia commons (CC BY-SA) By Jeffrey BrainardApr. 14,…
Researchers analyzed the genomes of 317 Indigenous Oceanian people to reconstruct a history of migration through the vast island region. Marc Dozier By Michael PriceApr.…
An internal computerized tomography scan of an azhdarchid pterosaur neck bone shows several spokes, which might have allowed them to support their long necks and lift…
The peripatetic Muon g-2 experiment took data at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York from 1997 to 2001 and has been taking data at Fermi…
A nurse fills a syringe with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site in New York City on 8 April. Mary…
DARIA KIRPACH/SALZMAN ART By Meredith WadmanApr. 13, 2021 , 3:25 PM The U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is moving for the first time to…
A COVID-19 survivor in Caracas, Venezuela, exercises at a rehabilitation center for patients like him. Pedro Rances Mattey/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelApr. 13, 2021 ,…
Contaminated wastewater fills more than 1000 tanks at the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images By Dennis NormileApr.…
Butterflies, such as this gray hairstreak, visit flowers that bees don’t pollinate and boost cotton yields. Sarah Cusser By Erik StokstadApr. 12, 2021 , 5:50…
Sustainability scientist Kimberly Nicholas says confronting climate change requires acknowledging values and feelings as well as advancing science and policy. Janet Nichols By David MalakoffApr.…
People queue to receive AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom has used the vaccine more than any other European country. Clodagh…
A woman in São Paulo eyes the syringe about to be used to give her a shot of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine. Andre Penner/AP By Sofia…
A surgeon removes a tumor visible on a monitor. Accelerating cancer treatments would be one goal of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health that President Joe…
Ice cream dyed with the anthocyanin from red cabbage Rebecca Robbins By Kai KupferschmidtApr. 9, 2021 , 4:15 PM It’s not that hard to make…
By Jeffrey MervisApr. 9, 2021 , 2:15 PM President Joe Biden today proposed huge increases for many federal research agencies as part of a $118-billion…
By Nikk OgasaApr. 9, 2021 , 10:30 AM “Buzz. Buzz. The queen is that way,” said one honey bee to another. “Pass it on.” Honey…
By Meagan CantwellApr. 9, 2021 , 10:15 AM In order to see the world as clearly as we do, we process vision from each eyeball…
TAE Technologies’s Norman device can keep a ring of plasma spinning 100 times longer than its natural lifetime. Next stop fusion? TAE Technologies By Daniel…
Intricate gearlike shapes created with a new method Glassomer GmbH By Robert F. ServiceApr. 8, 2021 , 3:00 PM The production of glass—one of humanity’s…
ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA; Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Joshua Sokol about magnetars—highly magnetized neutron stars. A recent intense outburst of…
Plasma bursts from a magnetar starquake in this artist’s conception, an eruption that can create a gamma ray flare. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith/USRA/GESTAR…
Researchers used high-resolution imaging techniques, like synchrotron tomography (shown above), to scan the braincases of five Homo erectus skulls found in Dmanisi, Georgia. Paul Tafforeau/ESRF…
The ancient Maya city of Tikal may have been home to foreigners from central Mexico long before archaeologists expected. traumlichtfabrik/Getty Images By Lizzie WadeApr. 8,…
Brain organoids like these don’t raise ethical issues, an expert panel says. MADELINE ANDREWS/ARNOLD KRIEGSTEIN LAB/UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO By Jocelyn KaiserApr. 8, 2021…
German psychologist Hans-Ulrich Wittchen is accused of fabricating data in a survey of psychiatry clinics. MITTENZWEI KARL/PICTURE-ALLIANCE/BERLINER ZEITUNG By Hristio BoytchevApr. 8, 2021 , 4:00…
In Bangladesh, a health care worker measures a child’s arm to monitor progress in a malnutrition supplementation study. MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP via Getty Images By…
Atlantic cod in 1952, before overfishing collapsed Canadian populations Peter Stackpole/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images By Erik StokstadApr. 7, 2021 , 4:45 PM…
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (center), greeting supporters while not wearing a mask, has a frosty relationship with the nation’s scientific community. Alan Santos/PR By Herton…
By Sofia MoutinhoApr. 7, 2021 , 11:15 AM As climate change melts sea ice earlier in the year, polar bears have begun to hunt for…
Muons twirl as they circulate in this ring-shaped accelerator at Fermilab, like race cars perpetually spinning out. REIDAR HAHN/FERMILAB By Adrian ChoApr. 7, 2021 ,…
This skull from Zlatý kůň cave near Prague belonged to the earliest known modern human in Europe. MAREK JANTAČ By Ann GibbonsApr. 7, 2021 ,…
MicroStockHub/iStock By Katie LanginApr. 6, 2021 , 7:01 PM If you want your work to be highly cited, here’s one simple tip that might help:…
President Joe Biden wants to bolster the National Science Foundation as part of his massive infrastructure plan, which he outlined last week in Pittsburgh. JIM…
Russia’s COVID-19 defense may depend on mystery vaccine from former bioweapons lab—but does it work?
In March, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin (center) visited the institute that developed EpiVacCorona. Sputnik/Dmitry Astakhov/Pool via REUTERS By Olga DobrovidovaApr. 6, 2021 , 11:05…
Radachynskyi/iStock By Cathleen O’GradyApr. 1, 2021 , 2:30 PM When Jessica Flake started her Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut, she hadn’t yet figured out…
The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, held in 2019 in Vancouver, Canada, is the largest in the discipline of artificial intelligence. Khari Johnson/VentureBeat By…
Increasing use of neonicotinoid insecticides is harming pollinators, like this honey bee in a pumpkin flower. Konrad Wothe/Minden Pictures By Erik StokstadApr. 1, 2021 ,…
christopherhu/Flickr Podcast Producer Meagan Cantwell talks with Pamela Soltis, a professor and curator with the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida…
Visitors gawk at Chang’e-5 lunar samples on display at the National Museum of China in Beijing. TINGSHU WANG/REUTERS By Dennis NormileApr. 1, 2021 , 11:15…
By Joel Goldberg, Katie FreeApr. 1, 2021 , 10:55 AM Bees, termites, and ants can teach us a lot about cooperation, communication, and the skills…
Myriam Wares By Jocelyn KaiserApr. 1, 2021 , 10:10 AM When New York City medical oncologist Vicky Makker meets a patient with endometrial cancer that…
Nastasic/iStockPhoto By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelMar. 31, 2021 , 2:00 PM Despite nourishing babies for millennia, the alchemy of human breast milk remains mysterious. One unknown is…
Strings of detectors, lowered into Russia’s Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest lake, will form one of several neutrino telescopes. Bair Shaybonov/Baikal-GVD By Daniel CleryMar. 31,…
President Joe Biden is calling for substantial investments in research as part of his plan to “build back better” from the COVID-19 pandemic. Official White…
Open Treatments founder Sanath Ramesh and his son Raghav Ramesh Ramya Ramaswamy By Jocelyn KaiserMar. 31, 2021 , 11:00 AM Sanath Ramesh’s life took an unexpected…
Mar. 30, 2021 , 6:40 PM If you’ve ever worried a bear might be after your picnic basket, you may want to take the hardest,…
In January, international members of a pandemic origins probe visited a Chinese laboratory that studies coronaviruses. REUTERS/Thomas Peter By Kai KupferschmidtMar. 30, 2021 , 10:00…
With the ratification of the Nagoya Protocol, Brazil could realize more economic benefit from endangered native species, such as the golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia). Edwin…
A gene therapy for hemophilia aims to restore a protein called factor that stabilizes fibrin (yellow), a component of blood clots. DENNIS KUNKEL MICROSCOPY/Science Source…
Researchers found Australasian ancestry in Indigenous groups living across South America, including those descended from Peru’s Mochica civilization. Luis Rosendo/Heritage Images/Getty Images By Michael PriceMar.…
Robert Neubecker By Meredith WadmanMar. 29, 2021 , 1:40 PM When not caring for COVID-19 patients—her latest was a man with bacterial lung and blood…
Cells with a stripped-down genome were a variety of inappropriate sizes (left) until scientists added seven genes and restored their normal shape (right). J. F.…
Scattered light from orbital debris (artist’s impression) may add 10% more light to a skyglow that interferes with astronomy. ESA By Joshua SokolMar. 28, 2021…
A man receives a dose of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine at a conference center in Rome on 24 March. Italy halted use of the vaccine on…
Dark matter may lurk in the hearts of large exoplanets (artist’s conception). ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger By Adrian ChoMar. 26, 2021 , 5:10 PM Dark matter…
Senior citizens wait in line at a COVID-19 vaccination center in Mumbai. This week, the Indian government announced that everyone over 45 can get a…
Congress is gearing up for debate on the future of the National Science Foundation. YayaErnst/iStock By Jeffrey MervisMar. 26, 2021 , 3:00 PM The science…
Elise Amend By Sofia MoutinhoMar. 26, 2021 , 12:30 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. Piled up in hospital storage closets—and…
By Matthew HutsonMar. 26, 2021 , 8:00 AM The video above will be familiar to anyone who’s played the 3D world-building game Minecraft. But it’s…
Stephan Schmitz/Folio Art By Robert F. ServiceMar. 11, 2021 , 8:00 AM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. In March 2020, as…
Spanish archaeologists found this silver diadem on top of the skull of a Bronze Age woman buried within palace ruins. J. A. Soldevilla/Arqueoecologia Social Mediterrània Research…
iStock.com/uschools By David MalakoffMar. 10, 2021 , 4:30 PM A massive $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill now on its way to President Joe Biden’s desk…
Bluebird Bio is tamping down cancer concerns regarding a gene therapy approach to prevent the sickling of blood cells (above). Stocktrek Images/Science Source By Jocelyn KaiserMar.…
An experimental pain treatment tested in mice targets ion channels on sensory nerves, shown above in the human spinal cord. Biophoto Associates/Science Source By Kelly…
MirageC/Getty Images, edited by E. Petersen/Science By Cathleen O’GradyMar. 10, 2021 , 12:55 PM In Sweden, a national code takes 44,000 words to define research…
Europe’s proposed Einstein Telescope, shown here in an artist’s conception (not to scale), would comprise six detectors in a triangular arrangement of tunnels. ET Conceptual…
GISAID data can help scientists build visualizations such as this one of the coronavirus genome. MARTIN KRZYWINSKI/SCIENCE SOURCE By Meredith WadmanMar. 10, 2021 , 11:20…
Birth girdles like this one, in the Wellcome Trust’s collection, were used in the Middle Ages to protect women during pregnancy and childbirth. Medieval English…
A free-moving horse wears an electroencephalogram headband for capturing brain wave patterns. Christa Lesté-Lasserre By Christa Lesté-LasserreMar. 9, 2021 , 5:15 PM The famed stallion…
Dozens of wealthy nations should by the end of the year have many surplus doses of COVID-19 vaccines like these made by BioNTech and Pfizer.…
kate_sept2004/iStock By Katie LanginMar. 9, 2021 , 11:00 AM Since early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and policymakers have raised serious concerns about impacts on…
Researchers believe land would have been scarce some 3 billion to 4 billion years ago. Alec Brenner/Harvard University By Paul VoosenMar. 9, 2021 , 9:00…
The United States needs to boost efforts to sequence coronavirus samples taken from COVID-19 patients, says Rick Bright, leader of a new Rockefeller Foundation program…
The proposed new U.S. service academy would be comparable to the U.S. Military Academy, but for civilian digital warriors. Dustin Satloff/Getty Images By Jeffrey MervisMar.…
By David ShultzMar. 8, 2021 , 11:10 AM It was “like a horror movie.” That’s how ecologist Sayaka Mitoh describes the scene at her lab…
By Meagan CantwellMar. 5, 2021 , 12:55 PM When you imagine satellite imagery, you probably picture crisp photos of Earth taken from orbit. But another…
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced the outlines of a new Five-Year Plan at the National People’s Congress in Beijing today. AP Photo/Andy Wong By Dennis…
Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms, a species of psychedelic mushrooms used by some “microdosers” Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images By Cathleen O’GradyMar. 5, 2021 ,…
This peritoneal macrophage may protect the abdomen—or spark a serious surgical side effect. Dennis Kunkel Microscopy/Science Source By Mitch LeslieMar. 4, 2021 , 2:00 PM…
Masaharu Tsubokura went from providing routine health care to giving lectures and visiting classrooms. Masaharu Tsubokura By Dennis NormileMar. 4, 2021 , 2:00 PM One…
By Dennis NormileMar. 4, 2021 , 2:00 PM Much of northeastern Japan is well along in recovering from the magnitude 9 earthquake and 40-meter tsunami…
Arne Hendriks/Flickr Science’s Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a 2000-year-old pet cemetery found in the Egyptian city of…
Like many other butterflies, the great purple hairstreak (Atlides halesus) is declining in the western United States. JEFFREY GLASSBERG/NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLY ASSOCIATION By Elizabeth PennisiMar.…
Tuberculosis has killed more people in the past 2000 years than any other disease, and it has sickened many more, including these patients resting opposite…
In the Pacific Ocean, the population size of this coral, Acropora cf grandis, is about 100 million. Andreas Dietzel By Elizabeth PennisiMar. 4, 2021 ,…
Rapid wing movements mark the courtship display of Ecuador’s club-winged manakin (Machaeropterus deliciosus) and its relatives. Murray Cooper/Minden Pictures By Elizabeth PennisiMar. 3, 2021 ,…
Clinicians care for a COVID-19 patient in Tehran. Iran is one of more than 40 countries taking part in the Solidarity trial testing coronavirus treatments.…
Universities like Trinity College Dublin will benefit from a budget boost at Science Foundation Ireland. David Soanes Photography/Getty Images By Seán DukeMar. 3, 2021 ,…
Finnish scientists Vitus Besel, Ivo Neefjes, and Jakub Kubečka (left to right) created a rap video about atmospheric molecule clusters that won this year’s Dance Your Ph.D. contest.…
SPARC could be the first fusion reactor to produce net energy—a decade before ITER and in a machine 10 times smaller. CFS/MIT; T. Henderson By…
A barrage of criticism led Jonas Ludvigsson of the Karolinska Institute to quit COVID-19 research. Alexander Donka By Gretchen VogelMar. 2, 2021 , 4:15 PM…
Francis Collins MICHAEL REYNOLDS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images By Jocelyn KaiserMar. 1, 2021 , 4:00 PM Responding to concerns about discrimination against Black people, National Institutes…
Fanatic Studio/Gary Waters/Getty Images By Cathleen O’GradyMar. 1, 2021 , 3:45 PM While studying for his master’s degree at the University of Oxford, Adam Mastroianni…
T cells attacking tumor cells MAURIZIO DE ANGELIS/Science Source By Jocelyn KaiserMar. 1, 2021 , 11:00 AM Researchers have shown in mice that designer antibodies…
hakule/iStock By Jeffrey BrainardMar. 1, 2021 , 10:45 AM For many busy working scientists, receiving yet another invitation from an academic journal to peer review…
A new Brazilian satellite would allow near–real-time monitoring of Amazonian deforestation. AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd By Sofia MoutinhoFeb. 26, 2021 , 1:45 PM The fate of…
ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images By Sofia MoutinhoFeb. 26, 2021 , 11:30 AM One hundred years ago, a play by the Czech author Karel Čapek…
A dog buried at Berenice was protected with a piece of pottery. M. Osypinska By David GrimmFeb. 26, 2021 , 10:45 AM The cats and…
Mordolff/iStock By Katie LanginFeb. 25, 2021 , 5:10 PM When Teddy Goetz—a fourth-year medical student at Columbia University—applied to residency programs in October 2020, he…
Poravute/iStock By Martin EnserinkFeb. 25, 2021 , 4:05 PM Hackers published a batch of internal documents from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) on…
Kyungduk Kim/Yale University First up, science journalist Julia Rosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about a growing fleet of radar satellites that will soon be…
The surface of Ethiopia’s Corbetti volcano has been rising nearly 7 centimeters per year, a sign of underground activity. In this image, red shows the…
By Gretchen VogelFeb. 25, 2021 , 2:00 PM Any parent of growing teenagers knows their appetites can reach gargantuan proportions. Now, imagine you had a…
K. Turnau By Elizabeth PennisiFeb. 25, 2021 , 12:15 PM Deep in the churning pools of a wastewater treatment plant, microbiologists have uncovered stealth alliances…
nnorozoff/iStock By Robert F. ServiceFeb. 25, 2021 , 12:00 PM The first organisms to “breathe” oxygen—or at least use it—appeared 3.1 billion years ago, according…
Alex Maisey By Tess JoosseFeb. 25, 2021 , 11:00 AM When birds spot a predator, they get loud. They’ll call out noisily, getting other birds…
French doctor Didier Raoult is an author on one-third of the papers in a single journal. Alain Apaydin/Abaca/Sipa via AP Images By Cathleen O’GradyFeb. 25,…
By Elizabeth PennisiFeb. 24, 2021 , 6:00 PM Evolutionary biologist Thibaut Brunet was studying single-celled organisms called choanoflagellates when he noticed something strange: The microbes…
Conventional polyethylene production, powered by fossil fuels, could one day be replaced by chemical reactors that rely on renewable energy and consume carbon dioxide. AARON…
DNA analysis of this fingernail-size fragment of bone showed it once belonged to the oldest known dog in the Americas. Douglas Levere/University at Buffalo By Andrew…
A panorama taken on 20 February showed Perseverance’s target—the edge of a fossilized river delta—looming on the horizon. NASA/JPL-Caltech By Paul VoosenFeb. 23, 2021 ,…
A teenager receives a shot in a clinical trial of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vacine. CINCINNATI CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelFeb. 23, 2021 , 2:55 PM Science’s COVID-19…
Masked pedestrians during a surge in coronavirus cases in the San Francisco Bay area in December 2020. A new study suggests a prevalent viral variant…
By Meagan CantwellFeb. 23, 2021 , 11:10 AM Dry areas of Namibia and Australia are well known for their fairy circles—barren rings that dot grasslands…
By Catherine MatacicFeb. 22, 2021 , 5:10 PM Just four martian days after touching down on the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance rover has sent back…
Cells in brain organoids made from human stem cells can mature to resemble those of a postnatal brain. S. Pasca Laboratory/Stanford University By Kelly ServickFeb.…
When a supermassive black hole tears a star apart (imagined here), it produces copious light—and maybe neutrinos, too. DESY/Science Communication Lab By Daniel CleryFeb. 22,…
By Jeffrey MervisFeb. 22, 2021 , 9:00 AM The National Science Foundation (NSF) could receive an additional $600 million as part of the massive coronavirus…
One concept for a fusion pilot plant from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alexander Creely By Adrian ChoFeb. 19, 2021 , 5:00 PM Plans to…
DNA found inside the guts of dung beetles, such as the giant flattened dung beetle, could one day be used to infer a region’s biodiversity.…
U.K. business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said this week that a new high-risk U.K. research agency would be located within his department. Wiktor Szymanowicz/Barcroft Media via…
NASA/JPL-CALTECH By Paul VoosenFeb. 19, 2021 , 1:35 PM Sometimes it pays to bring your own photographer. Cameras mounted on the sky crane that ferried…
A sky crane gently lowered Perseverance to a safe landing before crashing itself at a far remove. NASA/JPL-Caltech By Paul VoosenFeb. 18, 2021 , 4:10…
Radiocarbon from a 42,000-year-old kauri tree in New Zealand helped unravel Earth’s last magnetic upheaval. JONATHAN PALMER By Paul VoosenFeb. 18, 2021 , 2:00 PM…
European Space Agency/Stuart Rankin/Flickr Science Staff Writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to take on some of big questions about the COVID-19 vaccines, such…
Researchers analyzed the brain signals and eye and facial movements of people engaged in lucid dreaming “conversations.” K. Konkoly By Sofia MoutinhoFeb. 18, 2021 , 11:05…
Some experts say citizen advice helped counter the effect of French protests of an infant vaccination law. SIPA/AP IMAGES By Barbara CasassusFeb. 18, 2021 ,…
Researchers will try to deliberately infect healthy volunteers with SARS-CoV-2 (color) to test vaccines. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases By Jon CohenFeb. 17,…
The plunge through the martian atmosphere will heat Perseverance’s shielding to temperatures up to 1300°C. NASA/JPL-Caltech By Paul VoosenFeb. 17, 2021 , 5:05 PM It’s…
Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, one of 130 countries that don’t have COVID-19 vaccines yet. KB MPOFU/STRINGER/GETTY IMAGES By Kai KupferschmidtFeb. 17, 2021 ,…
Reinhard Hüttl was dismissed last month by the German Research Centre for Geosciences. DAVID AUSSERHOFER By Hinnerk Feldwisch-DrentrupFeb. 17, 2021 , 1:35 PM Reinhard Hüttl…
Researchers sequenced DNA from two mammoths that lived more than 1 million years ago, including a steppe mammoth (illustrated here), the direct ancestor to woolly…
A zebra shark, also known as the Indo-Pacific leopard shark, patrols a reef off Vaavu Atoll in the Indian Ocean. Aquariums are trying to use…
There are new cancer concerns swirling around a gene therapy approach designed to prevent the sickling of blood cells (above). Tim Vernon/Science Source By Jocelyn KaiserFeb.…
The parking lot at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles serves as a drive-thru COVID-19 vaccine site open into the night. Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images…
Do violent movies like Sin City lead to aggression? Retracted studies have muddied the debate. AF archive/Alamy Stock Photo By Cathleen O’GradyFeb. 16, 2021 ,…
The clustered orbits of six distant worlds (purple) were invoked as evidence for Planet Nine (orange). But some think the clustering might just be an…
A new study suggests disgust protects humans from infections. Chris Tobin/Getty Images By Ann GibbonsFeb. 15, 2021 , 3:00 PM Ask a man of the…
Schools in Sweden emphasized keeping hands clean, but neither students nor teachers wore masks. Martin von Krogh/Getty Images By Gretchen VogelFeb. 15, 2021 , 12:30…
A Baird’s Tapir forages in a rainforest in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica. Greg Basco/Minden Pictures By Elizabeth PennisiFeb. 15, 2021 , 11:00 AM Wildlife trafficking…
Peter Ben Embarek (center) and Marion Koopmans (right) say farewell to their Chinese counterpart Liang Wannian (left) after 9 February press conference to discuss the…
Russia’s Superheavy Element Factory will attempt to synthesize element 120—a potential island of stability now that element 114 has been ruled out. C. BICKEL/SCIENCE By…
Nopparat Khokthong/Shutterstock By Jeffrey BrainardFeb. 12, 2021 , 11:20 AM Seeking to spread the word about a hot new study, some scientists take to Twitter…
As more COVID-19 vaccines become available, researchers are testing the impact of pairing different products that require two shots. Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images By…
A few toppled bluestones are visible at the prehistoric stone circle of Waun Mawn in Wales. A. Stanford, M. P. Pearson et. al., Antiquity, 95,…
Tocilizumab, which dampens the immune system, is 100 times more expensive than dexamethasone, another drug that reduces mortality from COVID-19. Marc Bruxelle/Alamy Stock Photo By…
Misfolded proteins (orange) in the endoplasmic reticulum may play a role in Wolfram syndrome’s many symptoms. V. Altounian/Science By Mitch LeslieFeb. 11, 2021 , 2:00…
Fin whales have one of the loudest animal calls in the ocean. Jordi Chias/Minden Pictures By Sofia MoutinhoFeb. 11, 2021 , 2:00 PM Scientists have…
The 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police sparked protests. Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images By Douglas StarrFeb. 11, 2021…
A farmer in Niger tends to his nursery. Researchers say such community-led efforts will be key to completing the Great Green Wall. David Rose/Panos Pictures…
Ashley Swanson/Shutterstock By Sofia MoutinhoFeb. 11, 2021 , 11:10 AM Three-year-old Minnie is a serial killer. Like many domestic cats, the female tabby often sneaks…
This illustration from a 14th century Dutch encyclopedia of animal life shows scientists have been thinking about the fin to limb transition for centuries. Der…
A new centipede (reproduced with permission from copyright holder) beguiled taxonomists—but the specimens had murky origins. © MAGNOLIA PRESS; C. DOMÉNECH ET AL., ZOOTAXA, 4483(3),…
The first picture of Mars captured by Tianwen-1, taken 2.2 million kilometers away Xinhua/Xinhua via Getty Images By Paul VoosenFeb. 10, 2021 , 10:40 AM…
Phanie/Alamy Stock Photo By Warren CornwallFeb. 9, 2021 , 7:01 PM Prozac might need a new warning label: “Caution: This antidepressant may turn fish into…
ISTOCK.COM/damircudic By Katie LanginFeb. 9, 2021 , 5:00 PM In March 2020, Reshma Jagsi—a radiation oncologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor—wrote an opinion…
A nasal specimen is tested for SARS-CoV-2 at the University of Washington, Seattle. Scientists sequence the viral genomes from positive samples. Gates Notes LLC By…
Controllers monitor the Hope mission, which arrived at Mars today, from the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Christopher Pike/Bloomberg via…
By Joel GoldbergFeb. 9, 2021 , 9:00 AM Ocean sounds may help people sleep at night, but marine animals depend on them for survival. Take…
By Tess JoosseFeb. 8, 2021 , 11:00 AM How many times can you snap your fingers in a second? Whatever your record, you’re no match…
A participant in the South African trial of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine has blood drawn before receiving her second dose. AP Photo/Jerome Delay By Jon…
Chien-Shiung Wu was born in Liuhe, China, a town north of Shanghai, and emigrated to the United States in 1936. Robert W. Kelley/LIFE Picture Collection…
Representative Jamie Raskin (D—MD) chairs a House panel with jurisdiction over civil rights abuses. Matt Rourke/AP By Jeffrey MervisFeb. 5, 2021 , 3:30 PM Scientists and…
Black-legged ticks feeding on a five-lined skink Graham Hickling By Harini BarathFeb. 5, 2021 , 11:00 AM Lyme disease is one of the most devastating…
Volunteers in rural Uganda provided blood samples and health information for the biggest genomics effort in Africa, the Uganda Genome Resource. GEORGIAN MURPHY By Elizabeth…
A cactus mouse hides in the rocks, a strategy that helps many small desert mammals stay cool. JACK DAYNES By Elizabeth PennisiFeb. 4, 2021 ,…
Holly Gramazio/Flickr This week we’re dedicating the whole show to the 20th anniversary of the publication of the human genome. Today, about 30 million people…
This illustration from a 14th century Dutch encyclopedia of animal life shows scientists have been thinking about the fin to limb transition for centuries. Der…
The Square Kilometre Array Observatory aims to build 130,000 wire antennas in Australia. The image shows a cluster of existing prototypes (left) next to an…
María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces, head of Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology, has come under heavy fire from scientists. LUCÍA GODINEZ/NEWSCOM By Inés Gutiérrez…
Hundreds of fibers, arranged by hand, capture light at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s New Mexico telescope. DAN LONG/APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY By Daniel CleryFeb. 3,…
A shopping street in Copenhagen, Denmark, during the lockdown in January. Keeping the B.1.1.7 variant of COVID-19 at bay may require additional control measures, scientists…
Two wild marmosets in the Caatinga forest in northeastern Brazil Judith M. Burkart By Tess JoosseFeb. 3, 2021 , 2:00 PM Like a nosy neighbor,…
A health worker carries a tray of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine vials at a vaccination center in Naples, Italy, last week. Salvatore Laporta/IPA via ZUMA Press via Newscom…
A federal judge rejected arguments made by Andrew Wheeler, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, that a new rule limiting the agency’s use of…
Young chimpanzees are put in small enclosures to minimize exposure to a lethal disease at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone. Leah Owens By…
By Sofia MoutinhoFeb. 2, 2021 , 7:01 PM Tangle-web spiders may not be the biggest or strongest arachnids on the block, but they’re master string…
Species-rich vernal pools, such as these in California, could be one target for greater protection under President Joe Biden’s bid to protect 30% of U.S.…
A massive new National Institutes of Health precision nutrition study will give some volunteers controlled meals, like this one being prepared by a dietician at the…
By Meagan CantwellJan. 29, 2021 , 12:15 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. As countries like the…
High in the Swiss-Italian Alps, a researcher attempts to capture a rare Raetzer’s ringlet butterfly. Andrea Battisti By Ezra LernerJan. 29, 2021 , 11:15 AM…
After being accepted into graduate school at the University of Toledo 2 years ago, visa woes stemming from a “Muslim ban” have stranded aspiring environmental…
Vials are prepped to receive doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, which the company says has strong efficacy against the disease. Johnson &…
A health care worker administers the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine into the arm of a trial volunteer in Soweto, South Africa. JOAO SILVA/The New York Times/Redux By…
By Sofia MoutinhoJan. 28, 2021 , 2:05 PM The naked mole-rat may not be the most attractive rodent on the block, but it’s still a…
Smithsonian’s National Zoo On its first day, the new Biden administration announced plans to recalculate the social cost of carbon—a way of estimating the economic…
Fabian Leendertz has spent decades studying how diseases flow between humans and wildlife. Here, he and colleagues hunt for bats in Ivory Coast. PETE MULLER…
JTSorrell/iStock By Jeffrey MervisJan. 28, 2021 , 12:00 PM A memo by outgoing President Donald Trump on how to prevent China and other U.S. adversaries…
Researchers used 3D modeling software to reconstruct a critical thumb muscle, the opponens pollicis (depicted here), in the fossils of ancient hominins. Katerina Harvati; Alexandros…
In the race for a COVID-19 vaccine, second place still offers glory—unlike some scientific fields. KORA_SUN/SHUTTERSTOCK, ADAPTED BY C. SMITH/SCIENCE By Cathleen O’GradyJan. 28, 2021…
President Joe Biden (right) unveiled his new memorandum on scientific integrity today at a White House event attended by Vice President Kamala Harris (center) and…
A single cubic wombat dropping positioned by researchers on top of a rock Yang et al. 2021 By Tess JoosseJan. 27, 2021 , 6:05 PM…