Scary play lets people—and other animals—rehearse coping skills for disturbing challenges in the real world | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared gaze sheds new light on the Orion nebula, an icon of the night sky | Continue reading
The Biden administration’s intention to use dozens of bombs’ worth of highly enriched uranium as fuel in a new civilian reactor sets a dangerous precedent, one that could help our foes get nuclear weapons | Continue reading
New research offers insight into how rain and thunderstorms break up and spread respiratory irritants, such as pollen, fungal spores and pollutants | Continue reading
The sun’s magnetic poles are about to reverse as part of a regular 11-year sunspot activity cycle | Continue reading
The darkness of the night sky offers a profound insight on the nature of the cosmos | Continue reading
A new book reveals the surprising roles of wildlife scat | Continue reading
It's a global pandemic. The year is not 2020 but 1918, and Harriet Jane Lawrence is developing a vaccine against the deadliest influenza outbreak the world has ever seen | Continue reading
A facility off the coast of Oregon is being constructed to test devices to harness wave power that resemble everything from buoys to carpets | Continue reading
A unique U.S. strain of leishmaniasis has just been reported | Continue reading
Advances are increasing the supply of organs. But this isn’t enough. Enter the genetically modified donor pig | Continue reading
Recent studies evaluate risks associated with drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro | Continue reading
Research on what makes people willing to donate organs shows how to motivate many of the unvaccinated this fall | Continue reading
An enormous “Miyake event”—a bombardment of Earth by particles from the sun—hit 14,300 years ago. Such an event today would have devastating effects | Continue reading
Some states have begun to buy into the need for off-site firearm storage to protect those at risk of suicide | Continue reading
Companies are training their generative AI models on vast swathes of the Internet—and there’s no real way to stop them | Continue reading
The Western U.S. faces a future of fighting multiple large wildfires at once—a situation that is more difficult than handling a single blaze, even if the total acreage is similar | Continue reading
The antiviral drug ensitrelvir, which has not been approved outside of Japan, shortens sensory problems | Continue reading
Surgeons transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a human for the second time ever, and the recipient is continuing to recover more than three weeks later | Continue reading
Virtual power plants are aggregations of electricity producers, consumers and storers that power grid managers can call on to balance electricity demand and supply | Continue reading
The Endangered Species Act is an emergency measure turning 50 this year. Focusing on ecosystem preservation can keep us from ever needing it | Continue reading
Thirty years ago, astronomer Carl Sagan convinced NASA to turn a passing space probe’s instruments on Earth to look for life — with results that still reverberate today | Continue reading
An Aboriginal language provides unexpected insight into how language influences perception | Continue reading
The dangerous virus is still here. Here’s how you can stay safe. | Continue reading
Every year about 1000 human remains go unidentified in the U.S. New genetic technology can give them names and return them to their families | Continue reading
The savanna is a dangerous place: it has lions, buffalo and poachers. What scares animals the most in a South African national park? | Continue reading
Congress must end the exemption of nuclear waste from environmental law if we ever hope to end a 60-year logjam on how to safely store it | Continue reading
The annual “Drag ’n Tag” expedition takes place amid a wave of antitransgender legislation | Continue reading
A long-lost tectonic plate dubbed “Pontus” that was a quarter of the size of the Pacific Ocean was discovered by chance by scientists in Borneo | Continue reading
More than half of Miami-Dade County residents will face pressure to move as rising seas push residents inland to reach higher ground, a new study finds | Continue reading
The biology of aging shows ways to lengthen your healthspan, years free of serious disease | Continue reading
Why scary things can be fun, how to grow materials in space, and language’s influence on the mind | Continue reading
Images from each and every spacecraft now orbiting Mars have ruled out a meteorite strike as the cause of a 4.7-magnitude marsquake, the strongest temblor ever detected beyond Earth | Continue reading
The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence | Continue reading
After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers | Continue reading
Maria Smilios’ new book The Black Angels chronicles the history of the nurses of Sea View Hospital and the cure for tuberculosis | Continue reading
For the first time, a machine learning technique has revealed Greek words in CT scans of fragile rolled-up papyrus | Continue reading
Mental health specialists discuss strategies for residents reexperiencing trauma in the aftermath of hurricanes, wildfires and floods | Continue reading
The formation of Pangaea Ultima some 250 million years from now would be bad news for mammalian life. But whether it would mean the end for mammals—or whether the supercontinent will form at all—is far from certain | Continue reading
Doctors want to ban the term ‘excited delirium,’ which has been cited as a possible factor in high-profile police killings of George Floyd and others but is not a recognized medical diagnosis | Continue reading
Pope Francis’s new encyclical says irresponsible lifestyles are the biggest impediment to reducing carbon emissions | Continue reading
Novavax’s protein-based vaccine is the latest FDA-authorized COVID booster available this fall. Here’s what you should know | Continue reading
Sea ice is changing fast. Are forecasts, created by artificial intelligence, the best way to keep up with the pace of a warming climate in the far north? | Continue reading
Sea ice is changing fast. Are forecasts, created by artificial intelligence, the best way to keep up with the pace of a warming climate in the far north? | Continue reading
The “principle of explosion” explains why a single contradiction would destroy math | Continue reading
Insurance plans could cover blockbuster weight-loss medications such as Wegovy and Ozempic, but the benefits may not be accessible to everyone | Continue reading
Restoring habitats to how they were centuries ago, not years ago, could mean more successful conservation efforts | Continue reading
Researchers catalogue more than 3,000 different types of cell in our most complex organ | Continue reading