Promoters hope efforts will also offer insights into treatments used for humans | Continue reading
Weather fluctuations change how much excess carbon soil can absorb from the atmosphere | Continue reading
Back-and-forth motions may tweak the sensory organs that control our balance and spatial orientation | Continue reading
The back-and-forth motions may tweak the sensory organs that control our balance and spatial orientation | Continue reading
A flash of light during last weekend’s total lunar eclipse sparks a search for a new lunar crater | Continue reading
You can restore credibility to Congress and lead on issues from opioid addiction to clean water | Continue reading
Though Saturn formed about 4.5 billion years ago, its rings were added relatively recently—only 100 to 10 million years ago. Karen Hopkin reports. | Continue reading
A preliminary study shows how it might be possible one day to use a smartphone app to look around a bend without the help of a mirror | Continue reading
Two wildfires and two hurricanes were among the costliest disasters worldwide | Continue reading
A nicely aligned body is a nicely stacked body | Continue reading
The World Health Organization predicts the Democratic Republic of the Congo has enough of the experimental vaccine | Continue reading
A Nicaraguan study supports the idea preexisting dengue immunity may affect susceptibility to Zika | Continue reading
Detroit residents declined an offer of free street trees—but were more willing to accept them if they had a say in the type of tree. Jason G. Goldman reports. | Continue reading
An investigation by Chinese authorities found He Jiankui broke national regulations in his controversial gene editing work | Continue reading
The first direct air capture and storage plant in the world is powered by geothermal heat in Iceland. Is it enough to reach negative carbon emissions? To learn more, read the story here . | Continue reading
Researchers are trying to shift Mexico’s oyamel firs to higher elevations to help them weather warming temperatures | Continue reading
A new study shows that door-to-door “deep canvassing” conversations can change real voters’ attitudes to be more tolerant | Continue reading
While the wall is aimed at stopping migrants, environmental rollbacks could encourage more migration | Continue reading
A scientific look at an emotion that shapes our times | Continue reading
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is headed to bankruptcy after downed power lines are blamed for several large wildfires | Continue reading
Children without siblings have long been thought of as spoiled and selfish. Are the claims true? | Continue reading
A new report looks at the amount of pesticides that are making their way to our plates | Continue reading
A new analysis suggests the last few hundred million years of life on Earth has seen above-average asteroid impact rates | Continue reading
A total lunar eclipse will grace the skies this Sunday, January 20th—and it may or may not be red. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Scientists at Gingko Bioworks have resurrected the smell of an extinct flower by putting together the pieces of its DNA. | Continue reading
Mountain glaciers are an important source of freshwater for wildlife and human communities | Continue reading
Nobel laureate George Smoot claims LIGO has observed amplified signals of black hole mergers from the very distant universe, but LIGO scientists disagree | Continue reading
A newly identified circuit connecting the cerebellum to the brain’s reward centers in mice could help scientists understand autism and addiction | Continue reading
On January 20, stargazers across the Americas will have stunning views of a historic celestial event | Continue reading
The Astro 2020 Decadal Survey kicks off amid turmoil and uncertainty | Continue reading
The Mona Lisa effect is the illusion that the subject of a painting follows you with her gaze, despite where you stand. But Da Vinci's famous painting doesn't have that quality. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Modeling shows the 290-million-year-old Orobates had an advanced way of walking—revising an enduring view of how tetrapods colonized dry land | Continue reading
In an annual World Economic Forum report, climate change, extreme weather and biodiversity loss were named among the highest global risks | Continue reading
Drought conditions and poor water management have contributed to the events | Continue reading
Researchers surveyed the world’s 124 coffee species and found more than half are threatened | Continue reading
Ants infected with fungal pathogens steer clear of other cliques within the colony—avoiding wider infection, and allowing for a sort of immunity. Lucy Huang reports. | Continue reading
Understanding how microbial communities change after a fire can help researchers to predict how an ecosystem will recove | Continue reading
Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen offers 5 tips for when Jeff from accounting stops by to give you the play-by-play of his morning | Continue reading
The EPA’s proposed new rule could be worse than having no climate rule at all | Continue reading
Worlds with off-kilter orbits may be much more common than previously believed | Continue reading
Eight years after the nuclear meltdown, wary citizens are moving back to contaminated homesteads—some not by choice | Continue reading
The proposed facility would become the most powerful—and most expensive—collider ever built | Continue reading
A new look at “the Russian Blues” demonstrates the power of words to shape perception | Continue reading
The proposed facility would become the most powerful—and most expensive—collider ever built | Continue reading
Several companies are diversifying their businesses, from biofuels to electric vehicles | Continue reading
Some people find it impossible to imagine a friend’s face or their own apartment—a phenomenon named aphantasia. Scientists are beginning to tease out the brain features underlying the condition | Continue reading
A new look at “the Russian Blues” demonstrates the power of words to shape perception | Continue reading
Stress reduction, insomnia prevention, emotion control, improved attention—certain breathing techniques can make life better. But where do you start? | Continue reading