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A seafoofd market in Wuhan, China has been considered the likely source of an outbreak of a novel virus but it may have first infected…
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 —…
Beijing: Chinese handset maker Vivo is set to introduce a premium smartphone under the iQOO sub-brand in India next month. The brand, which has focused on…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
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 ,…
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…
London: British officials have proposed granting Huawei a limited role in the UK`s future 5G network, resisting US calls for a complete ban over fears…
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…
Google researchers have found multiple security flaws in Apple Inc`s Safari web browser that allowed the tracking of users` browsing behaviour, the Financial Times reported…
DAVOS: French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is optimistic of reaching a deal on a global tax on digital companies, despite an initial failure to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the company`s iCloud service after the FBI complained…
Brussels: The EU`s proposal for a temporary ban on facial-recognition technology won backing from Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai on Monday but got a cool…
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…
Cape Canaveral/Florida: Elon Musk`s SpaceX will try again on Sunday to destroy one of its own rockets in a test of a crucial emergency abort…
California: Apple is known to be working on a `less-expensive` iPhone for this year. Now latest reports indicate that the company may fill in the…
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…
Amsterdam: Dutch navigation and digital mapping company TomTom on Friday said it has closed a deal with China`s Huawei Technologies for the use of its…
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…
Beijing: Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei is currently making a big push towards the 5G industry, but it is also reportedly planning to assist in building…
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…
Berlin: Amazon.com has ordered 40 electric vans from Deutsche Post`s StreetScooter unit for deliveries in the German city of Munich as part of the plan…
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…
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…
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…
Bengaluru: Xiaomi on Tuesday announced that it sold over 10 lakh devices in a single day in the offline market on January 10, 2020 which…
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…
New Delhi: The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year witnessed a wide range of products that popped up on the Las Vegas show-floor, including an…
Seattle: Seattle, the Pacific Northwest city where home-grown online retailer Amazon.com has increasingly flexed its political muscle, is expected to approve on Monday legislation banning…
Beijing: Chinese handset maker OnePlus is set to showcase a smartphone with a 120Hz refresh rate on January 13, according to press invite sent to…
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…
New Delhi: Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite that will be available in India in the first week of February for Rs 39,999 can be pre-ordered on…
(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,…
Washington D.C.: Live streaming is gaining more popularity than ever, suggests a recent survey report. An easier assumption would be that the market is going…
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…
Washington D.C.: While smartphones seems to be the preferred choice for correspondences, yet it is tough to beat the charm of using a typewriter to…
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…
Las Vegas: Xiaomi-backed wearable brand Huami on Wednesday unveiled a new range of smartwatches, wireless earbuds and more at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2020.…
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…
Bengaluru: Amazon is bringing the power of Alexa to your car with the launch of its Echo Auto in India, allowing you access to entertainment,…
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…
Seoul: Samsung Electronics said on Sunday that it will introduce new, innovative devices in San Francisco on Feb. 11, with the electronics giant widely expected…
New Hampshire: Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2020, Segway has unveiled its quirky yet smart S-Pod transporting pod. The S-Pod is described as…
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…
San Francisco: The Cupertino-based tech giant Apple is reportedly planning to launch two `iPhone SE 2` models in 2020, in different sizes. The upcoming iPhone…
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…
New Delhi: South Korean technology firm Samsung on Thursday (January 2) introduced a new affordable notebook from its Galaxy Book line, called the Flex Alpha…
New Delhi: As smartphone penetration increases by leaps and bounds in India, porn consumption has reached its zenith too. A new report has revealed that…
Washington D.C.: The IT giant Google is now putting Artificial Intelligence at work to identify breast cancer with greater accuracy, according to a study published…
Crewe [United Kingdom]: As luxury carmakers also move towards the environment-conscious segment, Bentley is not far either. The company has announced that its first all-electric…
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…
New Delhi: This has been a breakthrough year for budget smartphones with some of them packing in flagship features while maintaining the “affordable” price tag.…
London: As smartphone hacking via third-party bugs increases (like WhatsApp-Pegasus case), a new study in Britain has discovered that iPhone owners are a whopping 167…
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,…
New Delhi: Cyber security researchers have discovered new vulnerabilities in Google Chrome that may allow attackers to remotely run malicious code inside the popular web…
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…
Beijing: Chinese handset maker Oppo on Thursday unveiled its much talked about Reno 3 and Reno 3 Pro with 5G support in its home market.…
Beijing: Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei is reportedly planning to launch its another foldable smartphone Mate X2 in the third quarter of next year. Based on…
Seoul: Famed leakster Ice Universe had claimed that the Samsung`s upcoming foldable smartphone Galaxy Fold 2 may have an “ultra-thin glass display” instead of plastic.…
Seoul: Famed leakster Ice Universe had claimed that the Samsung`s upcoming foldable smartphone Galaxy Fold 2 may have an “ultra-thin glass display” instead of plastic.…
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…
San Francisco: A self-proclaimed hacker who held over 300 million iPhones to ransom after gaining access to their iCloud details and threatening to factory reset…
New Delhi: Facebook, which has a poor privacy record, has announced it will build its own operating system (OS) from scratch that will power its…
(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…
Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh-backed Healthians, which is India’s leading health test at home brand, has expanded its operations in more than 30 cities across seven…
Paris: France`s competition authority fined Google 150 million euros ($167 million) for anti-competitive behaviour and for having unclear advertising on the Google Ads page. The…
New York: Researchers have found that machine learning, patterns and inferences computers use to learn to perform tasks, can predict the long-term risk of heart…
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…
New Delhi: Security researchers on Tuesday said they have detected a serious vulnerability in WhatsApp that led to group chat crash the moment a destructive…
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…
California: One of the biggest YouTube sensations, PewDiePie aka Felix Kjellberg has announced that he will be taking a break from the video service in…
Beijing: The upcoming Oppo Reno3 Pro 5G would come with a curved edged screen with a punch hole in the top left corner. Besides, the…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
New Delhi: Google has announced its “Year in Search” results, which highlighted stand-out moments in Search across news, sporting events, personalities, movies, and songs. In…
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…
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