By Herton EscobarJan. 26, 2020 , 5:04 PM São Paulo, Brazil – The appointment of a creationism advocate to lead the agency that oversees Brazil’s graduate study programs has scientists here concerned —…
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Some scientists are calling for more transparency about government reviews of research that could make the H5N1 influenza virus more risky to humans. NIBSC/Science Source…
Manufacturing facilities that produce antibiotics can release the compounds into nearby waterways. Fahroni/iStock.com By Natasha Gilbert Jan. 24, 2020 , 12:40 PM Two years into…
(Left to right): JON MOLD; KEVIN FRAYER/GETTY IMAGES; LEEDS MUSEUMS & GALLERIES By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Jan. 24, 2020 , 12:25 PM ‘We need a…
By Nguyen Nguyen, Joel GoldbergJan. 24, 2020 , 9:15 AM Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical found in many of the world’s food and drink cans,…
Former California Governor Jerry Brown (left), former Irish President Mary Robinson (middle), and former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reveal the 2020 Doomsday Clock. Bulletin of the…
By Daniel CleryJan. 23, 2020 , 2:40 PM The infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, considered one of NASA’s four “great observatories,” will be switched off on…
Amid travel restrictions and canceled public gatherings, millions of Chinese people, like this couple at a Beijing rail station, are now traveling to celebrate the Lunar…
Adam/Flickr As part of a special issue on chemicals for tomorrow’s Earth, we’ve got two green chemistry stories. First, host Sarah Crespi talks with contributing…
By Warren CornwallJan. 23, 2020 , 2:00 PM PITTSBURGH—A soda can might seem unworthy of scientific research. But just ask chemist Tom Mallen. With his…
Researchers grew tiny venom glands from nine different snake species, including the cape coral cobra. Michael D. Kern/Science Source By Erin MalsburyJan. 23, 2020 ,…
Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Jan. 23, 2020 , 11:10 AM When you think camouflage, you probably don’t imagine a gleaming…
Leeds Museums & Galleries By Erin MalsburyJan. 23, 2020 , 11:00 AM It may not sound like much, but the audio clip below is the…
NASA/ISS Crew/Johnson Space Center By John Fialka, E&E NewsJan. 23, 2020 , 10:00 AM Originally published by E&E News BOULDER, COLORADO—The top climate change scientist…
By Eric HandJan. 23, 2020 , 8:00 AM The Laboratory for Molecular Biology (LMB), clad in glass the color of sea ice, rises like a…
Skeletons in one of the boat houses in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum Martyn et al; Antiquity By Colin BarrasJan. 23, 2020 , 7:00 AM…
Many travelers wore protective face masks at Shanghai’s high-speed railway station today. Hundreds of millions of people are traveling this week to attend Lunar New…
Many travelers wore protective face masks at Shanghai’s high-speed railway station today. Hundreds of millions of people are traveling this week to attend Lunar New…
The spread of vaping has sparked a debate over its risks and benefits. iunderhill/iStock.com By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelJan. 22, 2020 , 4:45 PM New warnings about…
Enterobacteria are one of many types of microbes that live in the human gut. KTSDESIGN/Science Source By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Jan. 22, 2020 , 2:25…
A gene therapy treatment could give soldiers long-lasting protection against nerve agents. Desmond Boylan/Reuters By Jocelyn KaiserJan. 22, 2020 , 2:00 PM Despite international bans,…
People like these Baka hunter-gatherers once ranged well beyond their current homeland in Central Africa. Cyril Ruoso/MINDEN PICTURES By Ann GibbonsJan. 22, 2020 , 1:00…
Soon after the planets formed, the gravity of the gas giants flung debris around the Solar System. DANA BERRY/NAT GEO CREATIVE By Paul VoosenJan. 21,…
By Meagan CantwellJan. 21, 2020 , 3:15 PM Music is ubiquitous—but do societies around the world use similar building blocks to construct their songs? Researchers…
Passengers wear face masks in a subway station in Beijing, one of several cities in China that have reported cases of a new coronavirus. REUTERS/Jason Lee…
Earth’s magnetic field produces an aurora when disturbed by the solar wind. tiziano valeno/iStock By Colin BarrasJan. 20, 2020 , 3:00 PM Earth’s earliest lands,…
By Dennis NormileJan. 20, 2020 , 10:19 AM The outbreak of a new virus that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan last month appears…
Aishe Ghosh, the president of the students’ union at Jawaharlal Nehru University, at a 9 January rally to protest an attack on the university by…
By Jeffrey MervisJan. 19, 2020 , 10:28 AM Six Florida cancer researchers who were dismissed last month for hiding their ties to a Chinese medical university appear…
U.K. farm subsidies will require efforts to support public goods, such as recreation. Peter Mulligan/Getty Images By Erik StokstadJan. 17, 2020 , 5:10 PM After…
The treatment for diphtheria, developed in the late 19th century, still relies on injecting horses with a toxin and harvesting their antibodies. Jean-Loup Charmet/Science Source…
Levi Draheim, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, at a 2017 rally in Washington, D.C. ROBIN LOZNAK/OUR CHILDREN’S TRUST By Jennifer Hijazi, E&E NewsJan. 17, 2020…
CAR-T cells (tinged pale red) attack cells of an ependymoma, a type of brain and spinal cord tumor. Eye of Science/Science Source By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelJan. 17,…
(left to right): IMAGENAVI/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; CHRISTINA HANSEN WHEAT; TMT INTERNATIONAL OBSERVATORY By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Jan. 17, 2020 , 10:40 AM How the Ginkgo biloba achieves…
Increasing federal investment in advanced manufacturing, including robots that can assemble complex devices, is one goal of new Senate legislation. SCC Spartanburg Community College/Flickr By…
Researchers have made genetically engineered mosquitoes armed with a broadly effective antidengue antibody. Erik Jepsen/Creative Services and Publications/University of California, San Diego By Kelly ServickJan.…
stu_spivack/Flickr Though a law requiring clinical trial results reporting has been on the books for decades, many researchers have been slow to comply. Now, 2…
Department of Energy By Jeffrey MervisJan. 16, 2020 , 3:50 PM The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has drawn up a list of technologies it…
Parioscorpio venator (left) had a pulmonary-cardiovascular system similar to modern scorpions. The thoraxes of modern scorpions (center and right) were used to interpret the internal…
This wolf pup, Sting, was the best fetcher the researchers tested. Christina Hansen Wheat By David GrimmJan. 16, 2020 , 11:00 AM Playing fetch with your dog…
An introduced beetle that eats the eggs of the hemlock woolly adelgid is showing promise. ROBBIE FLOWERS/VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY By Gabriel PopkinJan.…
Powerful transparent piezoelectric crystals could enable improved medical imagers and even invisible robots. Fei Li/Xi’an Jiaotong University By Robert F. ServiceJan. 15, 2020 , 4:05…
Microbes that lay down minerals can create concretelike building materials. College of Engineering and Applied Science at Colorado University Boulder By Robert F. ServiceJan. 15,…
By Jeffrey MervisJan. 15, 2020 , 12:15 PM The National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) cornucopia of statistics on the global scientific enterprise came out today—but with…
On New Year’s Day, Wuhan health authorities closed a live animal market linked to the mysterious outbreak. NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images By Jon Cohen, Dennis NormileJan. 14,…
DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART By Michael PriceJan. 14, 2020 , 5:45 PM When Abigail Thompson, chair of the math department at the University of California (UC),…
If built, the Thirty Meter Telescope would be the biggest telescope on Mauna Kea, a peak many Native Hawaiians hold sacred. TMT International Observatory By Daniel…
By Sara ReardonJan. 14, 2020 , 1:35 PM In 1849, a German physiologist named Emil du Bois-Reymond cut his arm and measured the electricity flowing…
The National Institutes of Health, whose clinical center is pictured above, expanded the requirement to register and post results from clinical trials but hasn’t made…
Etienne Outram/Alamy Stock Photo By Kelly ServickJan. 14, 2020 , 11:20 AM Toxoplasma gondii exerts a strange sort of mind control on rodents: Once infected…
Davide Bonazzi/Salzman Art By Tania RabesandratanaJan. 13, 2020 , 6:59 PM To help transition toward transparent open access (OA), eight journal publishers, including SpringerNature, PLOS,…
A new research station designed by Brazilian architecture company Estúdio 41 can accommodate 64 people. Estúdio 41 By Herton EscobarJan. 13, 2020 , 4:25 PM…
New research reveals how Ginkgo biloba trees can grow for thousands of years. Imagenavi/Alamy Stock Photo By Erin MalsburyJan. 13, 2020 , 3:45 PM Long-lived…
DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART By Charles PillerJan. 13, 2020 , 11:00 AM For 20 years, the U.S. government has urged companies, universities, and other institutions that…
Joey Delvalle/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images By Martin EnserinkJan. 11, 2020 , 5:32 PM How do you tell the world that your discovery of a new…
Health authorities in Wuhan reported today that a 61-year old man has died from the new disease and that no new patients have been identified…
(left to right): DARPA; DAVID DOUBILET/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE COLLECTION; NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UCLA By Catherine MatacicJan. 10, 2020 , 3:30 PM ‘National pride is at stake.’ Russia, China,…
“Plenty of people are working on the outbreak,” says Xu Jianguo, head of an evaluation committee advising the Chinese government. Xu Jianguo By Dennis NormileJan.…
Health Minister of Indonesia Terawan Agus Putranto has treated many prominent Indonesians, including a former president. Dhodi Syailendra/Shutterstock By Dyna Rochmyaningsih Jan. 10, 2020 , 11:40…
By Joel GoldbergJan. 10, 2020 , 10:30 AM In August 2018, high in the sky over northeastern China, the Xingkong-2 hypersonic cruise missile raced at…
Nigel Sussman Nigel uses wit, whimsy, and humor to depict the various roles of organelles that create balance within a cell. Working with the editors,…
Florida state Representative Chris Sprowls (R) is leading a special panel looking into foreign influences on publicly supported research. AP Photo/Steve Cannon By Jeffrey MervisJan.…
Squeezing two people into an MRI machine, and deciding between what’s reasonable and what’s rational
Amanda/Flickr Getting into an MRI machine can be a tight fit for just one person. Now, researchers interested in studying face-to-face interactions are attempting to squeeze…
Public health officials in Thailand check passengers arriving from Wuhan, China, for signs of fever at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok on 8 January. Lauren DeCicca/Getty…
A functional magnetic resonance imaging setup scans side-by-side brains in separate head coils. RAY LEE By Kelly ServickJan. 9, 2020 , 1:20 PM The dark, thumping…
President Donald Trump GAGE SKIDMORE/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS By Jean Chemnick, E&E NewsJan. 9, 2020 , 11:10 AM Originally published by E&E News It took seven years…
If all goes as physicists hope, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (ring above) at Brookhaven National Laboratory will be converted into the Electron-Ion Collider. Getty…
By Virginia MorellJan. 9, 2020 , 11:00 AM Helping others is such an essential part of being human that we’ve developed elaborate rituals—and biblical edicts—for…
A new catalyst raises hopes for using renewable energy to generate methane, the chief component of natural gas burned for heating and electricity production. mehmetcan/Shutterstock…
There are likely millions of comets like Comet Siding Spring (above) in our Solar System—and a new study suggests at least a few might be interstellar objects captured…
Studies of reef fish like these in Australia suggested acidification might leave them disoriented and vulnerable. DAVID DOUBILET/National Geographic Image Collection By Martin EnserinkJan. 8,…
By Richard StoneJan. 8, 2020 , 9:00 AM High in the sky over northwestern China, a wedge-shaped unmanned vehicle separated from a rocket. Coasting along…
The Russian Academy of Sciences is trying to improve ethical standards in publishing. ISTOCK.COM/Mordolff By Dalmeet Singh ChawlaJan. 8, 2020 , 6:25 AM Academic journals…
The bicolored white-toothed shrew is the natural host species of Borna virus. Tierbild Okapia/Science Source By Kai KupferschmidtJan. 7, 2020 , 6:30 PM Researchers have…
York Archaeological Trust By Rodrigo Perez Ortega Jan. 7, 2020 , 7:01 PM Nearly 2600 years ago, a man was beheaded near modern-day York, U.K.—for…
ADAPTED FROM ISTOCK.COM/z_wei By Jeffrey BrainardJan. 7, 2020 , 4:00 PM Six of every 10 articles published in a sample of “predatory” journals attracted not one…
Remains of domestic dogs, like this 10,000-year-old canine uncovered in western Illinois, may be a lot more common in the archaeological record of the future.…
Adeno-associated viruses like this one are stripped of their own genes to deliver therapeutic human DNA into people, but some scientists fear the introduced DNA…
Health authorities in Wuhan, China, suspect that unexplained pneumonia cases somehow originated in a local seafood market. sleepingpanda/shutterstock.com By Dennis NormileJan. 3, 2020 , 10:35…
Christine Pfund (left) leads the the National Research Mentoring Network’s coordination center. Todd Brown/University of Wisconsin, Madison By Jeffrey MervisJan. 3, 2020 , 8:00 AM As…
The headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Rob Crandall/Alamy Stock Photo By Sean Reilly, E&E News, Kelsey Brugger, E&E News, Maxine Joselow,…
Eleanor/Flickr We start our first episode of the new year looking at future trends in policy and research with host Joel Goldberg and several Science…
By Douglas StarrJan. 2, 2020 , 1:15 PM In May 2016, Roberto Burioni, a virologist at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy, was asked…
By Science News StaffJan. 2, 2020 , 10:50 AM Incessant political turmoil in the United Kingdom, United States, and other nations will likely last well…
Ongoing drought has dried up a lagoon near Santiago, Chile. RODRIGO GARRIDO/REUTERS/Newscom By Paul VoosenDec. 31, 2019 , 8:00 AM For 10 years, central Chile…
He Jiankui, at a Hong Kong meeting in November 2018 where he presented his work, has not been seen in public since then. ANTHONY KWAN/BLOOMBERG/GETTY…
Scientists assembled a measles virus genome from the preserved lungs of a girl who died in 1912. KAI KUPFERSCHMIDT/SCIENCE By Kai KupferschmidtDec. 30, 2019 ,…
Polio vaccinators in northwestern Nigeria, where the live-virus vaccine itself is causing new infections. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images By Leslie RobertsDec. 30, 2019 , 8:00…
Spanish desert ants can find their way home while dragging food backward. Chew Chun Hian/Alamy By Eva FrederickDec. 27, 2019 , 3:45 PM Every day,…
Spanish desert ants can find their way home while dragging food backward. Chew Chun Hian/Alamy By Eva FrederickDec. 27, 2019 , 3:45 PM Every day,…
Sugar ants spend a night feasting on a urine stain on Kangaroo Island in Australia. Sophie Petit By Jake BuehlerDec. 26, 2019 , 11:15 AM…
Aurorae were seen widely after Starfish Prime, a 1962 nuclear test in space. Science History Images/Alamy Stock Photo By Richard StoneDec. 26, 2019 , 11:45…
By Matthew HutsonDec. 26, 2019 , 10:00 AM VANCOUVER, CANADA—No, the red player in the video above isn’t having a seizure. And the blue player…
Jennifer Tackaberry By Eva FrederickDec. 23, 2019 , 3:00 PM For many ocean creatures, there’s safety in numbers. A school of small, fast-moving fish can…
By Eva FrederickDec. 23, 2019 , 3:00 PM One day in 2014, primatologist Yuko Hattori was trying to teach a mother chimpanzee in her lab…
Sethuraman Panchanathan Arizona State University By Jeffrey MervisDec. 23, 2019 , 12:25 PM The computer scientist whom President Donald Trump picked this month as the…
(left to right): JOAO LAET/AFP via Getty Images; TOM BJÖRKLUND; OMAR FRANO By Eva FrederickDec. 20, 2019 , 4:20 PM 2019 Breakthrough of the Year…
By Science News StaffDec. 20, 2019 , 11:20 AM Each year, Science’s editors and writers highlight a top research achievement as their Breakthrough of the Year.…
Alan Cooper Brendon Thorne/Getty Images By Meredith WadmanDec. 20, 2019 , 11:20 AM Prominent evolutionary biologist Alan Cooper has been fired as director of the…
The September release of a male wolf from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on Isle Royale. The wolf population now numbers 15, with seven females and eight males. NPS/Phyllis Green…
By David GrimmDec. 20, 2019 , 9:00 AM Science’s online news site has been reporting breaking research news for more than 2 decades, and every…
Olena Yakobchuk/Shutterstock By Catherine MatacicDec. 19, 2019 , 2:25 PM Falling in love is never easy. But do it in a foreign language, and complications…
Pigs with a record number of modified genes will now provide organs for experimental transplants in non-human primates QihanBio By Kelly ServickDec. 19, 2019 ,…
Darkness made visible An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of a black hole By Daniel Clery 19 December 2019 Massive,…
Craig Cloutier/Flickr As the year comes to a close, we review the best science, the best stories, and the best books from 2019. Our end-of-the-year…
By David GrimmDec. 19, 2019 , 2:00 PM A lost continent. Bullets made of dark matter. A “cow” in space. These were the subjects of…
Researchers analyzing one of the radial Archaeopteris tree root systems at the Cairo, New York, site Charles Ver Straeten By Colin BarrasDec. 19, 2019 ,…
By Jeffrey MervisDec. 19, 2019 , 10:10 AM President Donald Trump has chosen a 58-year-old, Indian-born computing engineer and university administrator to be the next…
The White House The White House By Jeffrey Brainard, David MalakoffDec. 18, 2019 , 4:15 PM More than 125 scientific societies and journal publishers, as…
Jeannie Lee received the $100,000 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences in 2016, the year the Howard Hughes Medical Institute decided to end her Investigator Award.…
The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research, under construction in Germany, is €1 billion overbudget, an independent review has discovered. D. Fehrenz/GSI/FAIR By Edwin CartlidgeDec.…
Fossil evidence reveals that members of Homo erectus on Java, pictured here in an artist’s reconstruction of a specimen who lived approximately 1 million years ago,…
Neil Jacobs (left) talks with a staffer at a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather forecasting and research facility in Norman, Oklahoma, in August 2018. NOAA/Flickr…
By Katherine KorneiDec. 18, 2019 , 1:20 PM SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—Earlier this year, researchers installed the world’s highest weather station on the upper reaches of…
Fragmentary atlatl handles: One (left) has been designed to fit comfortably in an adult’s hand, and one (right) seems to have been designed for a…
Monarch tags are revealing the pace and timing of this butterfly’s annual migration. Omar Franco By Elizabeth PennisiDec. 18, 2019 , 9:55 AM Over 20…
The Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite undergoing tests prior to launch. The European satellite could pinpoint the sizes of worlds between Neptune and Earth in size. European…
By Virginia MorellDec. 17, 2019 , 7:01 PM Dogs may not be able to count to 10, but even the untrained ones have a rough…
By Eva FrederickDec. 17, 2019 , 7:01 PM In forests across West Africa, scientists have caught some grown male chimpanzees engaging in a strange behavior.…
Fires, such as this one in New South Wales, have burned more than 3 million hectares in Australia. Wolter Peeters/The Sydney Morning Herald via Getty…
Tom Björklund By Ann GibbonsDec. 17, 2019 , 11:00 AM More than 5700 years ago, a girl spat out a wad of chewing gum at…
The Wildlife Insights platform will help analyze and share camera trap images, such as this one of a spotted hyena snapped in the Zambezi region…
By Jeffrey Mervis, David MalakoffDec. 16, 2019 , 7:14 PM Most U.S. research agencies have received healthy increases for 2020 in a spending bill that…
By Joel GoldbergDec. 16, 2019 , 4:20 PM Big things have small beginnings. The latest findings of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft have…
Some of the world’s healthiest reefs are in French Polynesia. © Michele Westmorland/iLCP By Elizabeth PennisiDec. 16, 2019 , 12:45 PM In a world where…
SANTIAGO BORJA Huge thunderstorms, like this one over the Pacific Ocean captured by photographer and pilot Santiago Borja, can penetrate the stratosphere some 18 kilometers…
Top stories: Dinosaur lice, mysterious Egyptian head cones, and the importance of grandmother whales
(left to right): Chen Wang; Amarna Project; David Ellifrit/Center for Whale Research By Eva FrederickDec. 13, 2019 , 3:40 PM Even dinosaurs had lice, fossils…
Wonder Drake of Vanderbilt University in Nashville in her lab with some of the students she supports through the National Institutes of Health’s diversity supplements Joe…
By Paul VoosenDec. 13, 2019 , 3:30 PM SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—Despite scientists’ best efforts to probe the land beneath Antarctica’s ice sheets with radar, the…
Scientists have identified a new potential drug target for lymphedema, a painful swelling condition often caused by surgery or radiation treatments. SPL/Science Source By Eva…
The co-chairs of the National Institutes of Health’s working group on sexual harassment were (left to right) Kristina Johnson, chancellor of the State University of…
Brendan Gallagher/Karl Battams/NRL By Katherine KorneiDec. 13, 2019 , 11:45 AM SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—As asteroids go, Phaethon is a weird one. The enigmatic space rock,…
Sorbonne University in Paris is part of the consortium that has signed a deal with publishing giant Elsevier. LAURENT CHAMUSSY/SIPA/Newscom By Tania RabesandratanaDec. 13, 2019 ,…
Gemini Observatory About one-third of people with epilepsy are treatment resistant. Up until now, epilepsy treatments have focused on taming seizures rather than the source…
Nigel Cattlin/Minden Pictures By Eva FrederickDec. 12, 2019 , 4:50 PM Sweet potato plants don’t have spines or poisons to defend themselves. But some have…
NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin By Paul VoosenDec. 12, 2019 , 2:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—In December 2018, the scientists behind the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource…
M. ATAROD/SCIENCE By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelDec. 12, 2019 , 1:20 PM Andrea VonMarkle arrived in Madison by helicopter ambulance 2 years ago, her life hanging in…
ROBERT NEUBECKER By Christie WilcoxDec. 12, 2019 , 11:50 AM There’s a running joke in academia about Reviewer 2. That’s the reviewer that doesn’t bother…
A man sprinkles salt on donkey hides to dry them at an abattoir in Nigeria’s Delta state. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Christa Lesté-LasserreDec. 12,…
Reflected GPS signals can probe winds deep inside storms like 2017’s Hurricane Harvey, improving forecasts. NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team By Paul VoosenDec. 11,…
Ada, an AI-driven robot, searches for new solar cell designs at the University of British Columbia. FRASER PARLANE By Robert F. ServiceDec. 11, 2019 ,…
A fisherman casts a net from a boat in the Gulf of Guinea. NATALIJA GORMALOVA/AFP via Getty Images By Virginia MorellDec. 11, 2019 , 4:25…
A portion of a narrative scene painted on an Indonesian cave wall shows tiny hunters corralling a dwarf buffalo with ropes or spears. RATNO SARDI…
Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Marta Bryan, and Clara Sousa-Silva (left to right) have received support from programs at the Heising-Simons Foundation to aid women in astronomy and…
Davide Bonazzi/Salzman Art By Jeffrey MervisDec. 11, 2019 , 10:45 AM U.S. scientists who violate government rules on disclosing foreign research ties should be investigated…
By David MalakoffDec. 10, 2019 , 5:40 PM Congress is set to approve a major defense bill that would establish two new high-level bodies aimed…
CF8, a 40-hectare lake on Baffin Island in Canada, holds a DNA record of the surrounding ecosystem that may go back 125,000 years. Zach Montes/Orijin…
Two figures wearing head cones in a wall painting from Akhetaten, Egypt Amarna Project By Colin BarrasDec. 10, 2019 , 10:10 AM Look closely at…
An artist’s reconstruction of an ancient louselike insect on a downy dinosaur feather Chen Wang By Gretchen VogelDec. 10, 2019 , 11:00 AM As most…
By Richard StoneDec. 9, 2019 , 1:55 PM A complicated effort to convert an Iranian military site into a civilian research center has hit a…
A young killer whale swims between two older ones. David Ellifrit/Center for Whale Research By Eva FrederickDec. 9, 2019 , 4:30 PM Many human grandmothers…
On the Hawaiian island of Maui, silverswords growing in wetter areas are more vulnerable to climate change. DEA/C. DANI; I. JESKE/DeAgostini/Getty Images By Elizabeth PennisiDec.…
Sonar images reveal an enormous crater at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. © 2019 MBARI By Katherine KorneiDec. 9, 2019 , 11:35 AM SAN…
(left to right): LWM/NASA/LANDSAT/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; DAVID KELLY CROW; VINCENT JANNINK/ANP/AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Eva FrederickDec. 6, 2019 , 3:40 PM Rivers could generate thousands of…
The spaceship Rocinante arrives at the exoplanet Ilus in The Expanse. Amazon Prime Video By Stephen HumphreyDec. 6, 2019 , 8:00 AM On 13 December,…
NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin After their life as research subjects, what happens to lab monkeys? Some are euthanized to complete the research, others switch to…
Biogen says its experimental drug can slow cognitive decline in people with Alzheimer’s disease, but the claim has divided researchers. Paul Marotta/Sipa USA/AP By Kelly ServickDec.…
Scotland formally joined England with the Acts of Union (above), following an economic depression that may have been exacerbated by volcano-induced climate cooling. Chronicle/Alamy Stock…
Satellite data could refine models that predict carbon flows, seen here peaking in northern spring. NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER By Erik StokstadDec. 5, 2019…
Bush, a cynomolgus macaque, was a research monkey at Princeton University for nearly 20 years. David Kelly Crow By David GrimmDec. 5, 2019 , 9:00…
Dutch farmers have protested a ruling that curtails the expansion of livestock operations because of the nitrogen pollution they produce. VINCENT JANNINK/ANP/AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Erik…
Humans may lack the large, pronounced facial features of our primate ancestors like Neanderthals because we have “self-domesticated.” Federico Gambarini/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Michael PriceDec. 4,…
A new Italian funding agency would be supervised by the Ministry of Education, University, and Research in Rome. VITO ARCOMANO/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO By Giorgia GuglielmiDec.…
Estuaries, where rivers pour freshwater into the ocean, could become giant power plants with the help of a newly made membrane. LWM/NASA/LANDSAT/Alamy Stock Photo By…
Climate models dating back to the early 1970s accurately foretold how greenhouse gases would fuel a hotter future, such as the July heat wave that…
By Chelsea Harvey, E&E News, Nathanial Gronewold, E&E NewsDec. 4, 2019 , 1:35 PM Originally published by E&E News Global carbon emissions are expected to…
By Virginia MorellDec. 3, 2019 , 7:01 PM Say “sit!” to your dog, and—if he’s a good boy—he’ll likely plant his rump on the floor.…
A Chicago, Illinois, heart failure patient gets advice about transportation options from a community health worker as part of a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute–funded project…
By Science News StaffDec. 3, 2019 , 12:00 PM On 19 December, the editors and news reporters of Science will announce their selection of the…
DARIA KIRPACH/@SALZMANART By Lizzie WadeDec. 2, 2019 , 3:00 PM Seven months ago, an archaeologist banned from his university for sexual harassment attended the annual…
Emma Jones/University of Alberta By John PickrellNov. 29, 2019 , 5:00 AM It isn’t every day that scientists dig up a dinosaur jaw—or unearth the…
Europe’s fleet of Earth-observing Sentinel satellites could grow with a big budget boost. ESA/ATG medialab By Daniel CleryNov. 28, 2019 , 11:51 AM European nations…
Monterey Bay, California Adam Reeder/Flickr The National Institutes of Health’s largest loan repayment program was conceived to help scientists pay off school debts without relying…
Oil and gas processing, as at this refinery in Russia, are copious sources of methane. SergeyVButorin/iStockPhoto By Scott Waldman, E&E NewsNov. 27, 2019 , 12:35…
The playwright Molière is revered in France, but doubts about his authorship stretch back 100 years. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images By Lizzie WadeNov.…
Europe’s 35-meter parachute in a 2018 test in Sweden. It will be the largest ever on Mars. © ESA/I. BAREL By Daniel CleryNov. 26, 2019…
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is calling for research funding boosts and a speedy Brexit. FRANK AUGSTEIN/POOL/REUTERS By Erik StokstadNov. 26, 2019 , 2:00 PM…
sestovic/iStock.com By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelNov. 26, 2019 , 1:40 PM Reports of lung injuries from e-cigarettes splash across the news these days, but the nicotine-delivery devices…
Izabela Habur/iStockPhoto By Kelly ServickNov. 26, 2019 , 11:30 AM Fighting addiction means navigating a minefield of memories. A drive past an old hangout, an…
Earth’s atmosphere from the International Space Station NASA By Nathaniel Gronewald, E&E NewsNov. 26, 2019 , 9:02 AM Originally published by E&E News Global emissions…
Hunt Library at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, carries scientific journals covered by a new open-access arrangement. Daderot By Jeffrey BrainardNov. 25, 2019 ,…
Two babies recovering from spina bifida surgery at Hawassa University Hospital in Ethiopia in 2015. ReachAnother By Meredith WadmanNov. 25, 2019 , 12:55 PM Tony Magana,…
An artist’s impression of the Square Kilometer Array’s radio dishes in southern Africa. It will add 133 dishes to the existing 64-dish MeerKAT array in South…
By Science News StaffNov. 25, 2019 , 9:00 AM What has been the most significant scientific development this year? Science’s reporters and editors are debating…
The new mobile lab was born out of scientists’ “frustration” about the lack of infrastructure during the West-African Ebola outbreak M. Enserink/Science By Martin EnserinkNov.…
By Adrian ChoNov. 24, 2019 , 8:00 AM Physicists have long used high-speed video to watch bubbles burst: A small hole appears in the bubble, it…
The rainforest burns in Pará, the state in Brazil with the highest deforestation rate. © Victor Moriyama/Greenpeace By Herton EscobarNov. 22, 2019 , 4:40 PM…
Weather forecasters fear interference from 5G communications network could interfere with data collected by satellites, such as the orbiter that produced this image. National Oceanic…
A World Mosquito Program staff member releases Wolbachia mosquitoes in Brazil. World Mosquito Program By Kelly ServickNov. 22, 2019 , 3:10 PM NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND—In a…
(Left to right): TIMOTHY EVANS/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; STEPHAN SCHMITZ/FOLIO ART; SCRATCHART/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM By Eva FrederickNov. 22, 2019 , 3:05 PM Ultrasensitive protein method lets scientists ID…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration mapped the sea floor in the Central Pacific Basin, including a 4200-meter-high mount called Kahalewai. NOAA Office of Ocean…
Cao Xuetao VCG/Getty Images By Dennis NormileNov. 22, 2019 , 2:35 PM One of China’s most prominent scientists is facing a barrage of questions about…
By Meagan CantwellNov. 22, 2019 , 1:30 PM An all-black team of archaeologists explains its approach to unearthing the day-to-day lives of enslaved Africans at…
Barry Myers DIANE BONDAREFF/AP IMAGES FOR ACCUWEATHER By Rob Hotakainen, E&E NewsNov. 21, 2019 , 3:25 PM Originally published by E&E News Barry Myers, the…
Martin Lewinson/Flickr You may have seen the aftermath of a landslide, driving along a twisty mountain road—a scattering of rocks and scree impinging on the…
By Charles PillerNov. 21, 2019 , 2:00 PM Joshua Bauml, a University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) oncologist, received welcome news last year: He had won a…
The horns that dung beetles sport on their bodies rely on genes that encode wings to develop. ©Alexander Wild By Erica TennenhouseNov. 21, 2019 ,…
Europe’s Earth return orbiter must track and snare the orbiting sample sphere. © ESA/ATG MEDIALAB By Daniel Clery, Paul VoosenNov. 21, 2019 , 12:40 PM…
Researchers helped pigeons with broken wings fly again using surgical pins made of sheep and dog bone. ScratchArt/shutterstock.com By Eva FrederickNov. 21, 2019 , 11:50…
Scientists have developed a new method for extracting proteins from a single, 1-centimeter-long piece of hair. Timothy Evans/Alamy Stock Photo By Eva FrederickNov. 21, 2019…