The engineered “firefly petunia” emits a continuous green glow thanks to genes from a light-up mushroom | Continue reading
Echo chambers of climate denial on social media are strongest in the U.S. Midwest and South and in states that depend heavily on fossil fuels | Continue reading
A jury awarded Mann more than $1 million—raising hopes for scientists who are attacked politically because of their work | Continue reading
A new study found persistent effects of smoking on the adaptive immune system, but how this translates to health risks remains unclear | Continue reading
The strong El Niño pattern that made 2023 particularly hot is finally starting to weaken, which scientists expect will conclude by late spring. What does that mean for weather this year? | Continue reading
Debate about brain death has prevented needed revisions to the Uniform Determination of Death Act | Continue reading
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open a new era in astronomy that brings scientists to the brink of studying gravitational waves from the beginning of time | Continue reading
Recent research found a species of bacteria living in semen that’s associated with infertility and has links to the vaginal microbiome | Continue reading
Unpleasant emotions like sadness and anger can feel overwhelming, but recent research suggests they can trigger behaviors that lead to something better | Continue reading
In the 1970s mathematicians found a simple way to create all numbers, from the infinitely small to infinitely large | Continue reading
From jackals to hornbills, many grassland animals form a deep bond with their partner | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Energy will award up to $100 million for projects that remove CO2 from the atmosphere | Continue reading
The Food and Drug Administration is scheduled to release a proposal to ban formaldehyde in hair-straightening products a decade after it was classified as a carcinogen | Continue reading
Four years into the pandemic, many people have had COVID more than once—but the health consequences of repeat infections are not yet clear | Continue reading
Vaccines that target tumors with specific genetic mutations in pancreatic and other cancers have shown promise in early-stage trials | Continue reading
AI-generated disinformation will target voters on a near-daily basis in more than 50 countries, according to a new analysis | Continue reading
Researchers found that if melting glaciers shut down the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean’s circulation pattern, the global climate could see major changes within just 100 years | Continue reading
Residents of Grindavík hope hastily constructed walls of old volcanic rock will divert hot lava streaming from fissures in the ground beneath them | Continue reading
Despite some lawmakers’ claims, “cure-based recovery” for gay and transgender people comprises one of psychiatry’s longest and darkest chapters. We shouldn’t inflict it on today’s kids | Continue reading
Scientists are ramping up production of the isotope actinium 225, which could help treat prostate cancer | Continue reading
A former Jeopardy! winner led a new study that probes how linked memory systems may give trivia buffs an edge in their game | Continue reading
Individual interventions for burnout don’t work. Researchers explain why. | Continue reading
Scientists are watching closely to see whether avian influenza will reach Antarctica before this year’s penguin chicks disperse for the season | Continue reading
Three major waves of opposition to transgender health care in the past century have cited faulty science to justify hostility | Continue reading
Our research finds that language is often a barrier for people dealing with cybercrime issues and that it’s important to close this security gap | Continue reading
The pandemic early exposed weaknesses in CDC’s laboratories. Organizational and culture changes there are good first steps, but more must be done | Continue reading
Very young children’s developing immune systems respond to the COVID-causing virus SARS-CoV-2 very differently than do those of adults | Continue reading
Tourism is big business on the cape, but a growing environmental issue could disrupt the lives of tourists and residents, alike. | Continue reading
The songbirds in your backyard hop around on such itty-bitty legs. Here’s why bird legs are so skinny and how they can support a bird’s weight | Continue reading
Michael Mann secured a win in his legal battle against conservative bloggers who said the climatologist “molested and tortured data” and compared him to a convicted child abuser | Continue reading
Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 is aiming to be the first commercial mission to softly land on another celestial body—and the first to deliver NASA equipment to the moon | Continue reading
Rather than ripping up our fundamental models of the universe, the unexpectedly big and bright galaxies spied in the early universe by JWST probably have astrophysical explanations | Continue reading
Yes, conspiracy narratives are everywhere. But it’s not as bad as you think | Continue reading
Images of possible planets around white dwarf stars suggest that some gas-giant worlds survive the deaths of their stellar host | Continue reading
Researchers have a clearer picture than ever before of how common conditions that involve aggressive behavior emerge and how treatment can help | Continue reading
The Tsimane’ language divides the rainbow into blackish, reddish and whitish. But bilingual Spanish and Tsimane’ speakers are changing that | Continue reading
Experiments planned for the 2024 total solar eclipse aim to figure out how the sun works. | Continue reading
In January Taylor Swift became the latest high-profile target of nonconsensual deepfake images. It’s time for regulations that ban this kind of abusive AI content, cyberadvocates say | Continue reading
Wildfires have upended the insurance industry, in part because climate change is fueling bigger and more destructive blazes | Continue reading
As EPA tightens air pollution standards for particulate matter, new research suggests some components of that pollution could worsen with climate change | Continue reading
Ruby Payne-Scott and her colleagues unlocked a new way of seeing the universe, but to keep her job, Ruby had to keep a big secret. | Continue reading
The total solar eclipse over North America this April is a great opportunity for kids to understand the dance of the Earth, sun and moon | Continue reading
A first look at materials from asteroid Bennu sparks speculation that the space rock was once part of an ancient, watery protoplanet | Continue reading
A gloom and doom approach does not always spur climate action, it turns out. A new study tells you when it works and when it doesn’t | Continue reading
This warm, fuzzy color can be found all over the natural world, from land to sea to space | Continue reading
A feasibility study on CERN’s Future Circular Collider identifies where and how the machine could be built—but its construction is far from assured | Continue reading
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is eliminating nearly 600 workers due to funding shortfalls for the space agency's Mars Sample Return mission | Continue reading
A surprisingly youthful ocean within Mimas, a tiny moon of Saturn, has big implications for the solar system’s history—and for finding life beyond Earth | Continue reading