Our conscious awareness may be governed by a structure deep in the brain | Continue reading
The bacterial infection pertussis has sparked an uptick in cases nationwide and has caused two deaths in Louisiana | Continue reading
Becoming the first state to ban fluoride is going to cost Utah, both financially and dentally | Continue reading
The Dreamer AI system of Google's DeepMind reached the milestone of mastering Minecraft by ‘imagining’ the future impact of possible decisions | Continue reading
Damage surveys provide crucial information about when, where and how strong U.S. tornadoes are to better understand disaster risk | Continue reading
An internal FEMA memo says the agency is canceling future and existing grants that help states and tribes prepare for floods, tornadoes and other disasters | Continue reading
Just as tobacco companies knew they were poisoning people, today’s social media titans knowingly poison our politics, peddling lies and stoking angry divides for profit | Continue reading
For a long time, the Kakeya conjecture, which involves rotating an infinitely narrow needle, kept mathematicians guessing—until now | Continue reading
Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and they’re both cooler and ecologically more important than honeybees | Continue reading
According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history | Continue reading
USAID is responsible for global health efforts that have saved the lives of millions of children. What happens when those programs are cut? | Continue reading
Trump’s tariffs put a spotlight on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, which comprise a remote volcanic refuge for penguins and seals and a UNESCO World Heritage site | Continue reading
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 is a building-sized space rock | Continue reading
Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language | Continue reading
A trio of classified Russian satellites, called Kosmos, has sparked intrigue in space-tracking circles after an unidentified object was launched into orbit | Continue reading
Studying how extraterrestrials might communicate could help prepare for first contact and also hint at the point of language itself | Continue reading
Layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services have dealt a critical blow to the agency's efforts to manage rising temperatures made worse by climate change | Continue reading
The critically endangered Mexican wolf was mounting a comeback, thanks to a conservation program that dropped fostered wolf pups into wild dens. Then politics happened. | Continue reading
The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could affect the unparalleled observatory | Continue reading
Beginning in the 1930s, the work—and eventually the life—of Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo, the Dominican Republic’s first female doctor, became threatened by the country’s then new dictator | Continue reading
To protect democracy and counteract the allure of authoritarianism, reduce people's sense of fear and insecurity, psychology research says | Continue reading
A long-awaiting report from CERN explores the feasibility of building a supersized successor to the Large Hadron Collider | Continue reading
The commercial astronauts onboard SpaceX’s Fram2 mission are flying closer to Earth’s poles than anyone has before, offering an intriguing opportunity for auroral science | Continue reading
This temporary pacemaker, smaller than a grain of rice, could regulate the heart less invasively | Continue reading
After a stellar Yankees win on Saturday, torpedo bats are in the spotlight. Is there science behind these baseball bats? | Continue reading
New Trump administration tariff son imported goods could exacerbate a shortage of parts used by the energy industry | Continue reading
A natural experiment in Wales showed that a shingles vaccine might lower the risk of developing dementia | Continue reading
“The risks of remaining silent at this defining time are far greater than the risks of speaking out,” says one scientist regarding the Trump administration’s attacks on science | Continue reading
The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that is, for all the evidence to the contrary | Continue reading
A long-simmering disagreement over the universe’s present-day expansion rate shows no signs of resolution, leaving experts increasingly vexed | Continue reading
At the heart of the Trump administration’s Signal scandal lies the familiar psychological pitfall of groupthink | Continue reading
A mysterious and often debated aspect of human sexuality colloquially known as “squirting” sparks controversy. This episode explores what research reveals. | Continue reading
The Trump Administration has fired four leaders and thousands of employees at the National Institutes of Health in "one of the darkest days" | Continue reading
The privately funded Fram2 mission is the first ever to take astronauts into polar orbit—and the latest sign of a “new normal” for human spaceflight | Continue reading
The National Institutes of Health said it pulled the policy because of language on diversity and inclusion, in line with directives from the Trump administration | Continue reading
Trump administration plans to destroy EPA science will leave the air we breathe and the water we drink more polluted | Continue reading
Children ages four to seven demonstrate natural fact checking skills when put to a test with zebras and space aliens | Continue reading
By burying an assessment with updates and recommendations about the U.S.’s current measles outbreaks, the CDC has signaled an alarming shift in its public messaging | Continue reading
Fram2, a first-of-its-kind private mission to send four astronauts into polar orbit around Earth, is about to launch | Continue reading
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree goal and are examining how to maintain profits | Continue reading
Women shoulder most of the work in managing a family and tell us it’s exhausting, but some also say it has benefits | Continue reading
Despite fears that speaking out will make them targets, top researchers warn that the Trump administration’s “wholesale assault on U.S. science” will harm the nation | Continue reading
There are real, physiological reasons why the same temperature feels different in April and October | Continue reading
Intermittent fasting has gained a following, in part because of tantalizing hints that it can boost cognition, fend off cancer and even slow aging | Continue reading
A “Goldilocks” measure of green space might help stave off dementia, but an excess could lead to cognitive decline | Continue reading
Cuts to federal health and science agencies continue. Plus, we discuss the sounds of sharks, the meaning of Martian molecules and one big dino claw. | Continue reading
Researchers put forward a comprehensive model outlining the conditions that may give rise to the vivid mental phenomena that some people experience as they near death | Continue reading
Studies on COVID, climate change and South Africa are on the latest list of terminated grants by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, according to updated documents obtained by Nature | Continue reading