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…
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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…
Evgenyi_Eg/iStock By Dennis NormileJul. 7, 2021 , 4:15 PM Australia’s leading breeder and supplier of lab mice and rats is preparing to close its doors,…
Northern gannets sport black-tipped wings. Andrew Parkinson/NPL/Minden Pictures By Mennatalla IbrahimJul. 7, 2021 , 3:15 PM Most birds that swoop over ocean waters have one…
COVID-19 patients are treated using a noninvasive ventilation system at a field hospital in Manaus, Brazil. Felipe Dana/AP By Robert F. ServiceJul. 7, 2021 ,…
The smell of cut grass alerts European white storks to exposed prey. ARTERRA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images By Elizabeth PennisiJul. 7, 2021 , 1:25…
A mysterious disease might have killed this American robin found in Kentucky. Jon Cherry/Getty Images By David Malakoff, Erik StokstadJul. 6, 2021 , 5:00 PM…
Ajit Solanki/Ap Images By Cathleen O’GradyJul. 6, 2021 , 11:00 AM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. COVID-19 doesn’t strike the sexes equally.…
With its novel subterranean, triangular design, Europe’s Einstein Telescope would be a gravitational wave observatory unlike any other. ET CONCEPTUAL DESIGN TEAM By Adrian ChoJul.…
The Change Now collective at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory: (front row, from left) Jessica Esquivel and Brian Nord; (back row, from left) Bryan Ramson, Doug Berry, and…
By Claire HoganJul. 2, 2021 , 11:00 AM Two hundred meters under the sunny waves of the ocean lies the mesopelagic zone, a cold, dark…
A polyurethane foam “nature carpet” by Italian artist Piero Gilardi Aleth Lorne By Sam KeanJul. 2, 2021 , 8:00 AM Leanne Tonkin still remembers the…
Biologist Maria Leptin will be the fifth president of the European Research Council. Michael Wodak/MedizinFotoKöln By Nicholas WallaceJul. 1, 2021 , 4:30 PM The European…
A nursing home worker receives the first Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine administered in the Netherlands in January. A Dutch database is at the heart of a controversy…
An antibody (red/pink) latches on to the surface protein of SARS-CoV-2 (green). Many scientists believe the level of so-called neutralizing antibodies triggered by a vaccine…
Aleth Lorne First this week, Contributing Correspondent Sam Kean talks with producer Joel Goldberg about techniques museum conservators are using to save a range of…
iStock.com/Rostislav_Sedlacek By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Jul. 1, 2021 , 2:00 PM For some people, no amount of exercise and dieting keeps the kilograms off. For…
Plastic trash recovered from an island in the South Pacific Ocean shows decay and bite marks from marine life. Mandy Barker By Warren CornwallJul. 1,…
Jack Schmidt shooting rapids on Utah’s Green River, a tributary of the Colorado River. Wayne Wurtsbaugh By Erik StokstadJul. 1, 2021 , 8:00 AM On…
A megaquake will someday strike the Pacific Northwest. This ship could figure out how bad it will be
A 12-kilometer cable of hydrophones towed by the Marcus G. Langseth is capturing waves reflected off Cascadia’s fault zone. Hanchao Jian/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution By…
By Akila RaghavanJun. 30, 2021 , 11:00 AM Beetles are everywhere—and new members of Earth’s most diverse group of organisms are being discovered nearly every…
B. DOUTHITT/SCIENCE By Cathleen O’GradyJun. 30, 2021 , 5:00 AM Critics have long bashed Clarivate Analytics’s journal impact factor, complaining that the metric, which reports…
A lab worker holds up blood smears that will be examined for malaria parasites under a microscope at the Yunnan Institute for Parasitic Diseases in…
Researchers hope this black-footed albatross chick, settling in on Guadalupe Island, will return here to breed. © GECI/J.A. Soriano By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Jun. 29,…
Astronaut Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot the space shuttle in 1995. NASA By Anil OzaJun. 29, 2021 , 10:35 AM A blue-ribbon…
Diliff/Wikimedia Commons By Jeffrey MervisJun. 29, 2021 , 10:05 AM It was a good day for science in the U.S. House of Representatives. In back-to-back…
A black hole can rip apart a neutron star, as in this simulation, or it can swallow it whole. (Visualization) T. Dietrich/N. Fischer/S. Ossokine/H. Pfeiffer/T.…
These spool-shaped weights from Tiryns, in Bronze Age Greece, weighed about the same as their counterparts in other parts of Europe and the Middle East.…
A new CRISPR-based treatment for a rare, deadly liver disease depends on an injection containing both a messenger RNA encoding a DNA-cutting enzyme (white) and…
Jennifer Idol/Stocktrek Images/Science Source By Alex ViverosJun. 25, 2021 , 2:15 PM Scientists long suspected the giant plumose anemone (Metridium farcimen), which flourishes along the…
A massive, remarkably complete skull from China may reveal the long-sought face of a Denisovan. Xijun Ni By Ann GibbonsJun. 25, 2021 , 11:00 AM…
mumininan/iStock By Cathleen O’GradyJun. 25, 2021 , 9:00 AM Although researchers often have valid reasons to take text they have already published and reuse it…
Evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala Jacquelyn Martin/AP By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Jun. 24, 2021 , 5:50 PM The U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has expelled…
The fossils from Nesher Ramla in Israel show a weird mix of Neanderthal-like and archaic features. Yossi Zaidner By Ann GibbonsJun. 24, 2021 , 2:40…
Tomasz Klejdysz/Shutterstock First this week, Contributing Correspondent Cathleen O’Grady talks with host Sarah Crespi about controversy surrounding the use of Botox injections to alleviate depression…
K. Dolan/Science By Meredith WadmanJun. 24, 2021 , 2:00 PM Across from a dog park in the heart of Washington, D.C., stands a striking, multicolored…
At Howard University, Vernon Morris helped train more than half of recent U.S. Black atmospheric science Ph.D.s. MARISSA LESHNOV By Paul VoosenJun. 24, 2021 ,…
Registered reports, which peer review methods and analyses before results are known, measure up on quality and creativity. Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock By Cathleen O’GradyJun. 24, 2021 ,…
Botox injections make frowning hard. Could that break a feedback loop? MICROGEN IMAGES/SCIENCE SOURCE By Cathleen O’GradyJun. 24, 2021 , 12:45 PM By using a…
Many of the first COVID-19 cases were linked to a seafood market (center) in Wuhan, China, but a new analysis of other early coronavirus sequences…
Many of the first COVID-19 cases were linked to a seafood market (center) in Wuhan, China, but a new analysis of other early coronavirus sequences…
Hermann Brehm/Minden Pictures By Mennatalla IbrahimJun. 23, 2021 , 6:10 PM Pregnant mongooses in a colony all give birth on the same night, a phenomenon…
Patients with lung cancer (shown here) developed a wide array of resistance mechanisms to a KRAS inhibitor drug. SPL/Science Source By Jocelyn KaiserJun. 23, 2021…
Mexico’s plan to purchase the Shell Deer Park Refinery in Texas, in part with money from trust funds used to support research, has angered some…
Police officers stop cars at a checkpoint to prevent unauthorized travel into and out of Lisbon, Portugal, on 18 June. Pedro Nunes/Reuteres By Kai Kupferschmidt,…
Hotter summers could hit city dwellers especially hard. BEN HASTY/MEDIANEWS GROUP/READING EAGLE/GETTY IMAGES By Adrian ChoJun. 23, 2021 , 2:25 PM Taking aim at two…
A new readout of the American lobster genome could help explain why the long-lived crustaceans age gracefully. Jennifer Polinski By R.M. DavisJun. 23, 2021 ,…
The Chinese mountain cat is one of the world’s most elusive felines. Song Dazhao/CFCA By David GrimmJun. 23, 2021 , 2:00 PM Deep in the…
In Siberia, researchers lay out a grid in Denisova Cave to systematically sample soil layers for DNA. Richard G. Roberts By Elizabeth PennisiJun. 23, 2021…
The graceful glasswing butterfly has several tricks for achieving near-invisibility, a new study finds. Aaron Pomerantz By Anil OzaJun. 22, 2021 , 5:45 PM In…
The Great Barrier Reef suffered major bleaching events in 2016, 2017, and 2020. Kyodo News Stills via Getty Images By Dennis NormileJun. 22, 2021 ,…
By Katie Free, Joel GoldbergJun. 22, 2021 , 1:00 PM When it comes to our senses, we frequently focus on the external—the crack of thunder,…
Painted lady butterflies undertake one of the longest known annual insect migrations. Andy Rouse By Ian RandallJun. 21, 2021 , 3:00 PM The “butterfly effect”…
Sethuraman Panchanathan leads an agency suddenly in the limelight. National Science Foundation/Photo by Stephen Voss By Jeffrey MervisJun. 21, 2021 , 1:20 PM Sethuraman Panchanathan…
As a symbolic protest about COVID-19 vaccine inequity, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, waited until 12 May to get his first…
The 2017 Thomas Fire, fanned by Santa Ana winds, burned an area nearly as large as Los Angeles. David McNew/REUTERS By Paul VoosenJun. 18, 2021…
Peter Kremsner of University Hospital Tübingen injects a participant in CureVac’s efficacy study with the company’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate or a placebo. Kai Pfaffenbach/REUTERS By…
Reformulating the standard mouse diet could make animals healthier and experiments more reliable. Pascal Goetgheluck/Science Source By Mennatalla IbrahimJun. 17, 2021 , 5:00 PM The…
Aerial footage captures a pod of wild killer whales traveling in an extended family group. Team Trip/Barcroft Media via Getty By Christa Lesté-LasserreJun. 17, 2021…
Staff of Physicians Across Continents unload COVID-19 vaccines delivered by the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility at a border crossing between Syria and Turkey, destined for…
By digging deep into coastal marshes around the Chesapeake Bay, Matt Kirwan has unearthed a story of surprising resilience. Michael Snyder By Gabriel PopkinJun. 17,…
Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission Belur Math/Amphan Cyclone Relief Services First this week, News Intern Sofia Moutinho joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss scientists concerns…
Lauren Ballesta By Alex ViverosJun. 17, 2021 , 11:00 AM Few animals live as long as humans do. The West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae),…
By Daniel CleryJun. 16, 2021 , 7:35 PM A Canadian company, one of several betting on alternative approaches to fusion energy, announced today it will…
Ancient DNA from a Siberian cave reveals the first known father-daughter pair of Neanderthals. Tom Björklund By Ann GibbonsJun. 16, 2021 , 1:15 PM More…
Biomedical researchers who use mice and other animals in studies funded by the National Institutes of Health should be asked to adopt more rigorous methods…
EU research commissioner Mariya Gabriel said the openness of Horizon Europe funding would be balanced with the need “to protect the interests of Europe.” ©…
Regeneron’s antibodies were studied in a clinical trial in outpatients in Arizona in 2020. Now, the RECOVERY study has found that the therapy reduces mortality…
The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have both passed their own versions of legislation that would increase the budget of the National Science Foundation…
Lava destroyed homes on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. JUSTIN KATUMWA/AFP via Getty Images By Roland PeaseJun. 15, 2021 , 4:10…
Blowing the whistle on his first paper was “incredibly isolating,” according to Ken Thompson. “I don’t want to deal with this alone anymore.” Mackenzie Urquhart-Cronish…
By Meagan CantwellJun. 15, 2021 , 12:00 PM This year, billions of cicadas descended on the eastern United States. Unlike other groups of the insects,…
RLT Illustrations/iStock By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelJun. 14, 2021 , 5:00 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. A few months ago, transplant surgeon…
Turtle Rock Scientific/Science Source By Jocelyn KaiserJun. 14, 2021 , 1:50 PM Buried in a 2400-page bill approved last week by the U.S. Senate to…
Kyoto University possesses remains taken from the Momojyana tomb in Okinawa, Japan, where members of the royal family of the Ryukyu Kingdom are believed to…
A participant in Plano, Texas, is injected during Novavax’s North American COVID-19 vaccine trial this spring. The company reported its results today. Novavax By Meredith WadmanJun. 14,…
DARIA KIRPACH/SALZMAN ART By Jocelyn KaiserJun. 11, 2021 , 6:05 PM Since early 2018, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has received more than 300…
Some researchers fear a dystopian scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads without their consent. ISTOCK.COM/monkeybusinessimages By Sofia MoutinhoJun. 11, 2021 , 4:45…
Saturn’s moon Enceladus, with its geysers of water (artist’s illustration), could be the target for a future European flagship mission. European Space Agency/Science Office By…
Last year, Gary Urton retired from Harvard University with emeritus status, which has now been revoked. Sam Ogden By Ann GibbonsJun. 10, 2021 , 6:05…
Plastic is increasingly ubiquitous, even in remote ocean waters. These microscopic pieces were found in the Arctic Ocean. ELISA MARTI and ANDRES CÓZAR/University of Cádiz…
V. Altounian/SCIENCE First this week, Contributing Correspondent Emily Underwood talks with host Sarah Crespi about the surprising role of the vagus nerve—which connects the brain…
The vagus nerve forms a complex network linking the brain and internal organs. V. Altounian/Science By Emily UnderwoodJun. 10, 2021 , 12:55 PM In the…
EnVision will peer through Venus’s thick clouds with radars and spectrometers. ESA/VR2Planets/DamiaBouic By Daniel CleryJun. 10, 2021 , 12:45 PM Mars is so last year.…
Russia’s natural gas producers would benefit from a call by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for “alternative” climate research that would “not necessarily imply abandoning…
Along Florida’s east coast, polluted waters have harmed aquatic plants, a key source of food for manatees, contributing to the deaths of more than 700…
Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes in the lab World Mosquito Program By Kelly ServickJun. 9, 2021 , 5:00 PM A strategy for fighting dengue fever with bacteria-armed mosquitoes…
The DAVINCI+ probe falls toward Venus, sampling the atmosphere as it goes, in an artist’s concept. NASA GSFC; CI LABS/MICHAEL LENTZ AND OTHERS By Paul…
A number of Brazilian states can now import and use Sputnik V, the Russian vaccine for COVID-19, although a key regulatory agency in the country…
Japan is set on going ahead with the Olympics in July, despite Tokyo’s ongoing state of emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic. Carl Court/Getty Images By…
Initial data support giving a dose of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine (left) followed by one of Pfizer and BioNTech’s (right). Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images…
Beef cattle, like these outside the German village of Horst, tend to have smaller brains than less tame breeds, like bullfighting cattle. Thomas Uhlemann/picture alliance…
In the earliest stages of domestication, managed goats looked identical to their wild counterparts, the bezoar (pictured here). Kenneth W. Fink/Science Source By Michael PriceJun.…
A new clinical trial hopes to test messenger RNA vaccines for COVID-19 in pregnant women, like this one receiving a sonogram at an AIDS care…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved aducanumab based on evidence that it reduced buildup of beta amyloid (shown in a positron emission tomography scan) in the brains…
The pandemic coronavirus only severely sickens a few of the people it infects and a company says its saliva test can predict who is at…
At its largest, the megalake Paratethys (shown superimposed on modern geography) stretched from the eastern Alps to today’s Kazakhstan. Dan Palcu; Natural Earth By Sid…
Matthias Giersch By Elizabeth PennisiJun. 4, 2021 , 5:00 PM With biodiversity in decline around the world, researchers are desperate to catalog all of Earth’s…
A new heat-resistant fungus might help fight varroa mites, such as the one behind this honey bee’s head. Scott Bauer/USDA Agricultural Research Service By Erik…
By Joel GoldbergJun. 4, 2021 , 11:00 AM In March, Science Staff Writer Jon Cohen traveled to India to get an up-close look at the…
By rewriting the genome of Escherichia coli, researchers incorporated several unnatural amino acids into bacterial proteins. STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/Science Source By Robert F. ServiceJun. 3, 2021…
B. Douthitt/Science First this week, freelance journalist Ian Graber-Stiehl discusses what might be the oldest community science project—observing the emergence of periodical cicadas. He also notes…
President Joe Biden’s newly installed science adviser says he understands why scientists are baffled by rules intended to prevent other nations from unfairly benefiting from…
Eden Figueroa is trying to coax delicate quantum information out of the lab and into the connected world. John Paraskevas/Newsday/Pars International By Gabriel PopkinJun. 3,…
NASA has decided to send two new robotic spacecraft to explore the atmosphere and geology of Venus. IRINA DMITRIENKO/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO By Paul VoosenJun. 2,…
Biochemical nutritionist Ana Lucrecia Elías López, here working on a lecture she developed when she was part of Mexico’s Conacyt Cátedras program, was coerced into…
Efforts to develop cleaner energy technologies, such as better wind turbines and more efficient trucks, would get major funding increases under a budget proposal. Spencer…
Residents of the Brazilian city of Serrana line up for their COVID-19 vaccine doses. Divulgação/Butantan Institute By Sofia MoutinhoJun. 1, 2021 , 4:50 PM Science’s…
Imperfections such as the inclusions (dark flecks) in this diamond reveal that tectonic slabs can carry water deep into Earth’s mantle. Evan Smith/© 2021 GIA…
A 16-year-old in Tel Aviv, Israel, receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine on 23 January. JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images By Gretchen Vogel,…
Brood X periodical cicadas have captured the attention of amateur scientists across the eastern United States. B. Douthitt/Science By Ian Graber-StiehlJun. 1, 2021 , 12:45…
Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, speaks during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on 26 May, 2021. Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Jocelyn…
President Joe Biden, speaking here at a COVID-19 vaccine plant in March, today unveiled a budget that would increase biomedical research spending dramatically. Official White…
By Jeffrey MervisMay. 28, 2021 , 5:35 PM President Joe Biden today released a proposed 2022 budget for the National Science Foundation (NSF) that calls for a…
Eric Lander Alex Wong/Getty Images By Science News StaffMay. 28, 2021 , 12:25 PM The U.S. Senate today confirmed mathematician and geneticist Eric Lander as…
European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen (right) and Swiss President Guy Parmelin failed to reach an agreement on an overarching treaty. Francois Walschaerts, Pool…
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm says overall, the Biden administration’s support for the Department of Energy will be “huge.” AP Photo/Evan Vucci By Adrian ChoMay.…
Elisabeth Bik is an independent consultant who specializes in detecting manipulated scientific images. Sgerbic/CC 4.0 By Cathleen O’GradyMay. 27, 2021 , 5:05 PM More than…
Joe Wolf/Flickr First this week, Lucia Melloni, a group leader in the department of neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, talks with…
Physical activity, a factor in healthy brain aging, is part of multidomain dementia prevention trials. ISTOCK.COM/KALI9 By Mitch LeslieMay. 27, 2021 , 1:00 PM For…
DNA from this 40,000-year-old jawbone found in China’s Tianyuan Cave supports the presence of multiple populations of modern humans in ancient East Asia. Shaoguang Zhang/Institute…
Astronomer Geoffrey Marcy is no longer a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Niklas Hellen/Getty Images By Jocelyn KaiserMay. 27, 2021 , 11:34 AM…
This energy storage facility under construction in southeast England uses lithium-ion batteries. CHRIS RATCLIFFE/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES By Robert F. ServiceMay. 27, 2021 , 10:30 AM If…
Researchers swab turnstiles on the New York City subway. Weill Cornell Medicine By Cathleen O’GradyMay. 26, 2021 , 8:00 PM When Chris Mason’s daughter was…
In February 2020, security personnel stood guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China during the visit of a World Health Organization team investigating…
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is known for her climate-related research and efforts to increase diversity in science. TED CONFERENCE/FLICKR/CC BY-NC-ND By Adrian ChoMay. 26, 2021 ,…
U.K. rules on gene editing are expected to be less strict than those for transgenic crops like this iron-rich wheat the John Innes Center is testing.…
Lines for COVID-19 vaccinations in Houston in February. Hundreds of millions of U.S. inoculations have led to reports of possible side effects in an open-access government…
By Sofia MoutinhoMay. 26, 2021 , 2:00 PM Neotropical river otters spend most of their time alone, but that doesn’t stop them from being big…
Stephan Schmitz/FolioArt By Jon Cohen, Kai KupferschmidtMay. 26, 2021 , 1:40 PM Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. In January, the…
Martin Barraud/iStock By Elizabeth PennisiMay. 26, 2021 , 11:30 AM From roses to dogwoods to rice, flowering plants are among the most diverse and successful…
Human embryos created through in vitro fertilization are ethically sensitive research material. ZEPHYR/SCIENCE SOURCE By Kelly ServickMay. 26, 2021 , 11:00 AM The world’s largest…
A lightning bolt strikes down over the 2012 Charley Fire in Arizona. Nic Leister/Getty Images By Nikk OgasaMay. 25, 2021 , 12:30 PM Most people…
A syringe containing either CureVac’s COVID-19 vaccine or a placebo is ready to be used at a trial site in Brussels on 2 March. REUTERS/Yves…
A blind man who received a gene from algae in one eye reaches for a notebook with the help of special goggles. J.A. Sahel et.…
Students take part in a street play depicting people wounded in demonstrations during an antigovernment protest in Bogotá, Colombia, on 15 May. AP Photo/Fernando Vergara…
iStock By Cathleen O’GradyMay. 21, 2021 , 2:15 PM In 2011, a striking psychology paper made a splash across social media, news, and academia: People…
Graham Crouch/World Bank Staff Writer Kelly Servick talks with host Sarah Crespi about the pairing of a specific type of psychotherapy with the drug 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine,…
A shredded electric vehicle battery can yield recyclable metals, but it is often cheaper for batterymakers to use new materials. Argonne National Laboratory By Ian…
By Amina Khan, Joel GoldbergMay. 20, 2021 , 12:00 PM Rivers run deep with history. Civilizations have blossomed along the fertile banks of the world’s…
By Sofia MoutinhoMay. 20, 2021 , 11:05 AM They are no bigger than sesame seeds, and they pulse with a hypnotic rhythm. These are human…
An electron microscopic image of a new caninelike coronavirus isolated from a child in Malaysia with pneumonia and grown in dog cells Molecular and Cellular…
Wajid Kadar Khan, who lives in a Mumbai slum, says he received a COVID-19 vaccine only because his job required it, and his wife (left)…
Likely introduced by the Indigenous peoples of Guadeloupe, the Lesser Antillean iguana has taken the place of other, now-extinct lizards. Couvert and Moreau/Minden By Elizabeth…
A radiation portal monitor screens a truck at Jersey City, New Jersey’s docks. Stephen Chernin/Getty Images By Richard StoneMay. 19, 2021 , 2:00 PM Much…
The Sonoran Desert is one of the new record holders for Earth’s hottest surface temperature. benedek/iStock By Richard StoneMay. 19, 2021 , 1:40 PM Death…
An approach to treating post-traumatic stress disorder with MDMA emphasizes supervision from specially trained therapists. MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES By Kelly ServickMay. 19, 2021…
Czech researchers test lasers in Europe’s Extreme Light Infrastructure. © VIT SIMANEK/CTK PHOTO/ALAMY LIVE NEWS By Edwin CartlidgeMay. 19, 2021 , 11:20 AM The €950…
Josh McQuillin, shown in 2019, 1 year after being treated, says gene therapy has transformed his life. © VIT SIMANEK/CTK PHOTO/ALAMY LIVE NEWS By Jocelyn…
Passengers at Hankou railway station in Wuhan, China, on 22 January 2020, the day before the government locked down the city. Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua/Eyevine/Redux By Dennis NormileMay.…
High on the Tibetan Plateau, the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory contains thousands of detectors to track nature’s highest energy light. Xinhua/Alamy Live News…
Above a speed limit, microscopic tardigrades shot from a gun turn to “mush.” Eye of Science/Science Source By Jonathan O’CallaghanMay. 18, 2021 , 2:10 PM…
Since 1968, this facility at the University of Mississippi has provided all marijuana for U.S. medical research. That’s about to change. LANCE MURPHEY/The New York…
Dutch health minister Hugo de Jonge gets tested for COVID-19 using the SpiroNose. Joris van Gennip By Jop de VriezeMay. 17, 2021 , 4:10 PM…
A gymnasium in Boden, Sweden, is filled with pandemic influenza patients in 1918. Researchers have pieced together a full genetic sequence of the flu virus…
A passenger being tested for COVID-19 at Johannesburg’s international airport in January. A coronavirus variant of concern that arose in South Africa has spread around…
The 20-hectare original campus of the Serum Institute of India (above) now abuts its equally large biotech park, which has vastly expanded the company’s vaccine…
Funding authorized for the Department of Energy could support its network of laboratories, which includes Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Mark Lopez Argonne National Laboratory/Flickr…