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Bats use sound to hunt a dizzying array of prey. Some zero in on flowers to sip nectar, whereas others find cattle and suck their…
It took just one virus to cripple the world’s economy and kill millions of people; yet virologists estimate that trillions of still-unknown viruses exist, many…
For the past year, the U.S. government had argued that Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineering professor Gang Chen broke the law by failing to…
Barely 2 months after it began, the Omicron wave is already ebbing in some countries. And although it has sickened huge numbers of people, caused…
When Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai, a mostly submerged volcanic cauldron in the South Pacific Ocean, exploded on 15 January, it unleashed a blast perhaps as powerful…
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It was almost Valentine’s Day 2020, and love was in the air—jaguar love, that is. A pair of the spotted big cats tumbled in the…
A new data-rich report by the National Science Foundation (NSF) confirms China has overtaken the United States as the world’s leader in several key scientific…
VOLCANOLOGY Eruption in Tonga is biggest in 30 years As officials assessed the extent of death and damage caused by last week’s rapid, violent volcanic…
The criminal charges against Harvard University chemist Charles Lieber—and dozens of others ensnared in the U.S. Department of Justice’s China Initiative—have put a spotlight on…
A federal judge has dismissed charges against Gang Chen, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) accused of lying about…
In 2019, Kate Folladori spent a month sitting in a hospital room hoping she’d have a seizure. Since her diagnosis with epilepsy nearly 20 years…
For years, entomologists have worried about what appears to be a global decline in insect populations. But data on insect trends can be hard to…
Every day at sunset, a 3-million-bat whirlwind emerges from a cave and floods the night sky of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve. The cave—El Volcán de…
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For people fighting repeat infections of the diarrhea-causing bacterium Clostridium difficile, fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) offers a proven—if unappetizing—solution. Stool from a healthy donor, usually delivered…
Scientists at universities perform much of the world’s cutting-edge scientific research—often while relying on shaky, homemade computer software written by students and postdocs. Schmidt Futures,…
Since 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has trundled across Mars, drilling into rocks and running the grit through a sophisticated onboard chemistry lab, aiming to tease…
In the third millennium B.C.E., a strange group of donkeylike creatures was buried alongside royals in an ancient city east of what is now Aleppo,…
For most of the 397 early-career scientists who learned this week that they had received €1.5 million grants, the first to be awarded under the…
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PHOENIX—Imagine slamming your head into a wall at a Lamborghini’s top speed, and you’ve got a good sense of what it’s like for a gecko…
ASTROPHYSICS Webb telescope fully formed The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest space observatory ever launched, completed most of its delicate in-space deployments last week…
Last month, at a conservation center near Fort Collins, Colorado, staffers held an unusual birthday party, complete with a two-tiered cake made of prairie dog…
The most extensive and densely populated breeding colony of fish anywhere lurks deep underneath the ice of the Weddell Sea, scientists aboard an Antarctic research…
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An HIV infection remains maddeningly difficult to cure because the virus is so good at hiding out. Yes, antiretroviral (ARV) drugs can control an infection,…
Between 500 and 1100 C.E., the highlands of Peru were home to a far-reaching empire known as the Wari. Like the Inca after them, the…
President Joe Biden’s administration last week ordered federal agencies to draft uniform policies describing the outside sources of funding that scientists must disclose when they…
PHOENIX—Fearing a case of potentially debilitating Lyme disease, countless hikers postpone their trips to the woods until winter, when the ticks that carry the disease…
In May 2020, with anonymous callers vowing to kill him and similar threats mounting on social media, Rick Bright gave up his cellphone and went…
It takes a lot of science to stop a fire. To prevent homes and workplaces from going up in smoke, manufacturers have added flame retardants…
Up to 8% of pregnant people develop high blood pressure that can damage their organs or even kill their babies. Often there’s no sign of…
Astronomers have long thought it takes millions of years for the seeds of stars like the Sun to come together. Clouds of mostly hydrogen gas…
Babies born at two New York City hospitals in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic scored slightly lower on developmental tests at 6 months of age…
One night in September 2021, Fatema Samim’s fate hung in the balance. A civil engineer from Herat, in western Afghanistan, she had been on the…
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With the Arctic warming up to four times faster than the global average, temperatures in the frozen soil, or permafrost, under northern Siberia have been…
As this year begins, the Omicron variant is smashing COVID-19 infection records across Europe, North America, Africa, and Australia. With massive numbers of people infected…
On a summer day several years ago, Fabrice Lambert, a climatologist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, met one of his colleagues in Quinta…
Congress came very close to giving U.S. researchers a funding windfall in 2021. But the Democrats’ narrow majority in both houses and a united Republican…
Inventorying the plants in a tract of woods or fields or searching for invasive species can take days of hot, hard work slogging through thorny…
In the United States, widespread hope greeted the decision by the Food and Drug Administration last week to authorize the emergency use of two different…
This weekend saw the deaths of two of the world’s strongest advocates of protecting the world’s flora and fauna. Edward O. Wilson, 92, an ant…
Last week, Harvard University chemist Charles Lieber became the first academic scientist targeted by the U.S. government’s controversial 3-year-old China Initiative to be found guilty…
NASA’s most expensive telescope ever is in space at last. The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, an instrument expected to revolutionize astronomy by gathering…
COVID-19 COVID-19 looms large over the next year in science Any look at the immediate future of science must start with the pandemic coronavirus. As…
The new Omicron variant of the pandemic coronavirus has provided an avalanche of mutations, many never seen before, for scientists to ponder. And as with…
Farmland is overtaking much of the planet. That’s the conclusion of a new satellite map, which finds that fields of corn, wheat, rice, and other…
The U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday authorized another new pill to treat the Omicron variant, this time from Merck. While Pfizer’s antiviral…
About 2900 years ago, an elderly woman was carefully buried with two lambs in her lap and a piece of chalk in her hand at…
One of the ocean’s most legendary creatures is also one of the most sensitive to human noise. A new study finds the unicornlike narwhal is…
Some of the most stunning examples of animal behavior seem to be driven by predators. A massive cloud of starlings darting away from a hawk…
In 1942, a peat cutter digging in a Danish bog crunched his shovel into a horned bronze helmet. Long, curving bull’s horns topped a round…
Scientists and policymakers are puzzling over how to get rid of a group of toxic chemicals found in streams and drinking water. One hope was…
Francis Collins ended his 12 years as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on a high note last week, rushing to interviews and…
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The new SARS-CoV-2 variant exploding around the planet is forcing humanity to adapt at a breakneck speed. This week, countries across Northern Europe imposed stringent…
A tree’s annual growth rings reveal how it has flourished—or floundered—over time, with the size of the rings indicating years of health or hardship. But…
If you’re a fan of weird animals and exotic concepts, we’ve got a top 10 list for you. From wombats that poop cubes to hypothetical…
In his 1972 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, American biochemist Christian Anfinsen laid out a vision: One day it would be possible, he said, to predict…
RESEARCH FACILITIES Tornado razes agricultural center A hub of agricultural research in the small city of Princeton, Kentucky, was among the many places left in…
When Science crowned the development of effective SARS-CoV-2 vaccines the scientific Breakthrough of the Year in December 2020, it was a moment of celebration. “This…
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In a feat of scientific repurposing, a team of physicists has used a detector designed to sense gravitational waves—fleeting ripples in space and time set…
The glow of the firefly is as mysterious as it is alluring. Scientists have long argued over why the trait evolved in these adult beetles:…
Mercury pollution is a global problem. Emissions from gold mining, coal burning, and other industrial processes travel through the atmosphere, eventually falling to Earth as…
It’s almost a mantra in climate science: The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. But that figure, found in…
An alarming crackup has begun at the foot of Antarctica’s vulnerable Thwaites Glacier, whose meltwater is already responsible for about 4% of global sea level…
In his biography Life of Lycurgus, written around 100 C.E., Greek philosopher Plutarch recounted how the ancient Spartans submitted newborns to a council of elders…
ECOLOGY Hippo gut microbes make a splash A study of hippo pools in Africa suggests the microscopic gut residents of these massive animals have an…
In August, as Iceland’s long summer days began to wane, Sölvi Thrastarson made his 10th visit to a volcano so young it lacks a name.…
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Slacker mice don’t have to lift a paw to reap the brain benefits of exercise. All they need are injections of blood from their fellow…
In the fight against climate change, humanity owes the ocean a big thank you. It has already absorbed nearly one-third of the carbon emissions from…
An ambitious project that set out 8 years ago to replicate findings from top cancer labs has drawn to a discouraging close. The Reproducibility Project:…
Climate change is wreaking havoc on Pacific Ocean salmon populations: overheating spawning streams, triggering storms that scour stream beds and droughts that dry them up,…
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Next week, NASA will launch a small mission with an ambitious task: to peer into some of the universe’s most violent objects for clues to…
In some farmers’ ideal world, cows would birth only females, sows would bear no boars, and chicks would all grow up to be hens. Such…
How the emergence of the Omicron variant will shape the COVID-19 pandemic is still unclear, but new data from South Africa are worrisome. A study…
Schwenda, Germany—Last summer, Friederike and Jörg von Beyme stood on a bramble-covered, Sun-blasted slope outside this small town in eastern Germany. Just 4 years ago,…
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Some 3.6 million years ago, an upright walking creature trudged through layers of freshly fallen volcanic ash in what today is northern Tanzania. When anthropologists…
A court has fined Reinhard Hüttl, a former German national academy president, in the wake of allegations he made fraudulent expense claims while he was…
When prodemocracy demonstrations erupted in Hong Kong in 2019, its publicly funded universities were hotbeds of unrest. A year later, five university presidents signed a…
Here’s an odd little story. Two physicists confined two ions in an electromagnetic trap and made them turn laps for weeks on end to compare…
The bacteria that live in our guts influence everything from nutrition to autism. Now ecologists have learned that those internal microbes can also escape and…
Marine protected areas can be a victim of their own success. By banning or restricting fishing within their waters, these reserves can build healthy populations…
For the second year running, COVID-19 dominated the airwaves, our brainwaves—and so many other facets of our lives. But this was a rich year in…
At 7.30 a.m. on Wednesday, Kristian Andersen, an infectious disease researcher at Scripps Research in San Diego, received a message on Slack: “This variant is…
PLANETARY DEFENSE NASA probe will slam space rock in test of saving Earth NASA was expected to launch this week a robotic probe that in…
With its large ears and whiskered nose, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the jerboa for a mouse … at least from the stomach up. The…
Stroll the sidewalks of the eastern United States this fall and you might think you’re walking on ball bearings, as a bumper crop of acorns…
For patients whose depression resists treatment with drugs and electroconvulsive therapy, surgically implanted wires that stimulate the brain might bring relief. But in recent years,…
Scientists have argued for decades over whether humans have pheromones, chemical compounds that trigger aggression and mating in insects and other animals. Although the notion…
The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to push the pedal to the metal in its efforts to exploit the cosmos. Ministers from ESA’s 22 member…
In March 2020, tornadoes rampaged through Tennessee, killing 25 people and causing $1.6 billion in damage. One victim was the research farm of Tennessee State…
In September, Berlin’s legislature took a radical step to address the precarious employment situation that plagues many early-career researchers. It passed a law requiring universities…
ENVIRONMENT Huge marine reserve to be revoked The Pacific nation of Kiribati, which in 2008 created the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, then the world’s biggest…
Jeannine Cavender-Bares began her scientific career with her hands in the dirt. Now, she has her eyes in the sky. As a teenager she helped…
In the largest single release of whole genomes ever, the UK Biobank (UKBB) this week unveiled to scientists the entire genomes of 200,000 people who…
In the name of planetary defense, NASA is set to launch a robotic probe next week that in late 2022 will hurtle into a sizable…
It’s not every day that mining wins acclaim for its ecological benefits. But a new study suggests rock quarries in northern Germany have become wildlife…
Two years ago, the crew of the Polarstern, a German icebreaker frozen into Arctic sea ice, shot a green laser up into the night. The…
Peter Daszak’s life took a turn for the worse on the evening of 17 April 2020. It has yet to recover. Daszak, a conservation biologist,…
Erol Fikrig had spent 10 years pursuing a vaccine that would take a new approach to protecting people from Lyme disease, a growing bane in…
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The artists and sculptors of ancient Egypt may not be household names like Michelangelo, Raphael, or Caravaggio, but a new study of a female pharaoh’s…
When nations gathered in Glasgow, U.K., earlier this month for the major U.N. climate summit, “Keep 1.5 alive” was a ubiquitous mantra, repeated on protest…
In the latest twist in a yearlong dispute, a critique of the first ever room-temperature superconductor has been “temporarily removed” by its publisher amid charges…
She may not be Rembrandt or Pablo Picasso, but Molly the orangutan drew more than 1000 pictures over her lifetime. Now, one of the largest…
Almost 2 years after a Twitter storm erupted over data problems, including the possibility of fabrication, in more than a dozen scientific papers co-authored by…
Hear the word “circle,” and you’ll probably think of something round. Hear “razor,” and you’ll think of something sharp. But what about a seemingly nonsense…
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The telescope Galileo Galilei first pointed at the heavens in 1609 had a lens no wider than a slice of cucumber. Yet with that modest…
A tiny grain of millet may have given birth to one of the most mysterious—and widespread—language families on Earth, according to the largest study yet…
A tree disease first spotted 9 years ago in Ohio is now a leading threat to one of eastern North America’s most important trees. The…
The first oral antiviral for treating COVID-19, Merck’s molnupiravir, received approval from the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on Thursday. But the approval,…
Opening a new chapter in the treatment of COVID-19—one borrowed from successfully tackling the AIDS virus—the drug behemoth Pfizer today reported upbeat results for a…
The 40 wind turbines dotting the rolling grassland 9 kilometers south of Zhanatas, an impoverished industrial town in southern Kazakhstan, are monuments to change. Each…
CLIMATE POLICY United States, European Union back ‘green’ steel, aluminum On the eve of the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, U.K., the United States and…
Why change a winning formula? After nearly 3 years of deliberation, a panel of U.S. astronomers says the country’s biggest priority for the field should…
Three years ago, neurologist Tim Yu stunned colleagues at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting with news that in just 10 months,…
With the 26th annual international climate summit (COP26) underway in Glasgow, U.K., methane is basking in the spotlight. The potent heat-trapping molecule was once a…
An accident in February has shut down a diminutive nuclear reactor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—and has cost the United States,…
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Though the study leader heralded an operation as providing “new hope for an unlimited supply of organs,” last month’s much-publicized transplant of a kidney from…
If you see a dead housefly on a windowsill surrounded by a ghostly halo of tiny white spores, it’s a death trap. The insect was…
“In science … novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance.” So wrote Thomas Kuhn in his landmark The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Some studies…
On a Sunday morning earlier this month, Girardin Jean-Louis attended the regular mass service at Trinity Baptist Church in North Miami, Florida. He wasn’t just…
GLOBAL WARMING Climate summit opens as carbon dioxide cuts lag As world leaders converge on Glasgow, U.K., for a climate summit beginning 31 October, a…
Dive among the kelp forests of the Southern California coast and you may spot orange puffball sponges (Tethya californiana)—creatures that look like the miniature pumpkins…
Archaeologist Nicole Boivin has been removed from her position as a director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH) in…
A controversial plant biodiversity paper from 2014 was retracted yesterday, following more than 1 year of effort by a co-author turned whistleblower who sought to…
The Tarim Basin mummies have been a mystery ever since European explorers discovered them in northwestern China in the early 20th century. They were tall,…
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In 2013 at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, 9-year-old Ella Chambers of Glasgow spoke to politicians from her wheelchair. Ella has spina bifida, a birth…
The pandemic led to a surge in COVID-19 research, but it severely disrupted other fields—shuttering labs, restricting travel, and leaving scientists with young children struggling…
Scientists have uncovered nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments in southern Mexico using an airborne laser mapping technology called lidar. Dating as far back as 3000 years…
Rhythm, the saying goes—you either have it, or you don’t. Humans and songbirds do, but until now, the ability to vocalize to a beat hasn’t…
In August 2020, biologist Izabela Kulaszewicz was settling in for a lazy evening at the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund, on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, when a…
A result last year hailed as a breakthrough in physics also generated skepticism that has now escalated into angry recriminations. Researchers said they had made…
On a stuffy summer day, Maria Cristina Dreher Mansur peers into the brownish water of Lake Guaíba in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.…
Earthquakes can tear down buildings, but they can also build up forests—at least for a little while. New research shows strong quakes can help trees…
As the roughly 30 trillion human red blood cells cruise the bloodstream and supply tissues with oxygen, they may also be doing something biologists did…
About 4200 years ago, a few herders on the western Eurasian steppe got a brand-new mount. They were experienced at herding wild horses for food,…
Some of the countries most vulnerable to climate change are those with the least access to scientific expertise in climate negotiations. Bill Hare, a climate…
The first permanent settlement of Vikings in North America—a seaside outpost in Newfoundland known as L’Anse aux Meadows—has tantalized archaeologists for more than 60 years.…
The 47-year-old woman couldn’t shake her cough and shortness of breath, baffling Veronique Nussenblatt, an infectious disease specialist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).…
Today, the Moon is dark and quiet. But 2 billion years ago, the Moon was hot and bothered, spewing out vast pools of lava, based…
As the search for the next director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) gears up, observers are wondering: Is it time for the…
An effort to probe the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic that was intended to sidestep politics has foundered amid accusations of conflicts of interest and…
Yes, COVID-19 has had us all social distancing and made dancing with friends far too rare. But as last year’s winners of Science’s Dance Your…
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), has offered to reinstate Anming Hu, a tenured engineering professor acquitted of federal charges that he failed to disclose…
Across North America, hundreds of bird species waste time and energy raising chicks that aren’t their own. They’re the victims of a “brood parasite” called…
Kyoto University plans to disband its celebrated Primate Research Institute (PRI) because of the misuse of government funds under former Director Tetsuro Matsuzawa. By March…
FISHERIES SCIENCE Overruling scientists, Florida board authorizes fishing of the vulnerable goliath grouper A Florida commission voted last week to again allow fishing of the…
Mark Redwine kept mementos of his youngest son in the cab of his truck. The boy’s name, Dylan, is tattooed on his left shoulder. He…
When sea otters dig for clams in seagrass meadows, they leave a pockmarked “moonscape” in their wake. It’s “full of craters, just pits everywhere,” says…
The World Health Organization (WHO) today unveiled a new team to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Scientific Advisory Group on the Origins…
Seventeen years ago, botanist Miriam van Heist of Wageningen University and a team of local collaborators set out to explore plant diversity in the Foja…
The World Health Organization (WHO) today unveiled a new team to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Scientific Advisory Group on the Origins…
For the first time in 3 decades, Florida is planning to allow recreational fishing of one of the world’s largest and most embattled gamefish. But…
Just a meter or two down, below the topsoil that nurtures crops, is a little known part of the ecosystem that may be critical to…
Ask children around the world to draw a scientist and they’ll most likely sketch an older white man. Now, a new way to break down…
China is set to take advantage of an international stage to show it’s serious about protecting the planet’s threatened species and ecosystem. At a United…
CLINICAL RESEARCH Merck unveils first pill to treat COVID-19 An experimental antiviral drug with a controversial history may become the first oral medication to help…
On 19 December 2019, Tony Tyson, an experimental physicist at the University of California (UC), Davis, joined a conference call with billionaire Elon Musk that…
When the sudden, terrifying deaths hit in early June in Banalia, a small mining community in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), some people…
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Pioneering modeling work on the causes and signs of human-induced climate change and on disordered physical systems—squeezed together under the umbrella of complex systems—are honored…
Al menos cuatro científicas han denunciado recientemente por acoso y hostigamiento sexual al reconocido especialista en genética de plantas Jean-Philippe Vielle Calzada, investigador del Laboratorio…
Physician-geneticist Francis Collins, who had led the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 12 years under three presidents, will step down by the end…
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Two researchers who elucidated key molecules that control the sense of touch have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. David Julius and…
A pill given early after infection with SARS-CoV-2 cuts in half a person’s risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19, according to results announced today…
Women scientists have recently filed at least four formal complaints of sexual harassment against renowned plant geneticist Jean-Philippe Vielle Calzada, a senior researcher at Mexico’s…
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Hillsboro, Oregon—Though he catches flak for it, Garrett Kenyon, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, calls artificial intelligence (AI) “overhyped.” The algorithms that underlie…
Color is a spectrum: Red fades from orange to yellow, whereas green merges to turquoise, then blue. Languages treat this spectrum in different ways: Some…
In December 2020, a 110-million-year-old dinosaur from Brazil stunned scientists with its furlike filaments and the spearlike feathers sprouting from its shoulders. But Ubirajara jubatus,…
For years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been trying to boost the success rate of Black scientists who apply for grants by offering…
Identical twins are living proof of how genetics shapes our looks and traits. Now, researchers have found they carry a molecular signature on their DNA…
GPS has transformed everything from driving to search and rescue. But it currently relies on government-run satellites that have trouble peering into canyons and forests—and…
One year ago, environmental engineer Chris Frey was an outcast and a rebel at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), issuing scathing critiques of its treatment…
Barely 1 month after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, the erosion of academic life is gathering pace. At least 70 lecturers and professors at…
Centuries before the rise of the Roman Republic, a different culture dominated the Italian Peninsula: The Etruscans, a sophisticated civilization whose heartland was in and…
COVID-19 Aiding pandemic fight, India pledges to export vaccine again India said this week its vaccine manufacturers will resume exporting COVID-19 shots in October, potentially…
The bizarre symptoms had tormented Sarkis Hagopian since he was a young child crawling around his Pittsburgh home. Every so often, one of his knees…
In 2016, a girl named Cora Stetson was born in Boston. Within 48 hours, hospital staff pricked her heel to get a drop of blood…
Seahorses are some of the most dazzling fish in the sea. They’re also the only group of animals in which the males, not the females,…
Between 23,000 and 21,000 years ago, people squished through the mud along a lakeshore in what is now New Mexico, alone and in small groups,…
The peopling of Polynesia was a stunning achievement: Beginning around 800 C.E., audacious Polynesian navigators in double-hulled sailing canoes used the stars and their knowledge…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s pledge to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday that his country “will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad” was welcome…
The human penchant for bling is ancient—and a new study suggests it may go back as far as 142,000 years. That’s when hunter-gatherers in what…
Public health authorities have long worried that the emergence in Africa of malaria resistant to artemisinin was only a matter of time. Parasites that can…