The nation’s highest court paused a lower court’s decision to nullify approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, keeping the medication available while an appeal moves forward | Continue reading
Boris Eldagsen submitted an AI-generated image to a photography contest as a “cheeky monkey” and sparked a debate about AI’s place in the art world | Continue reading
A pillar of every neuroscience textbook, the classic “homunculus” has just gone through a radical revision | Continue reading
The president is creating an Office of Environmental Justice and expanding federal protections for communities that have been historically overburdened by pollution | Continue reading
Requiring a prescription for all forms of naloxone holds the overdose-reversing medication hostage, kept from millions of Americans who should carry it in their purses and back pockets | Continue reading
Researchers used an artificial tongue to understand how chocolate changes from a solid to a smooth emulsion | Continue reading
Biodiversity loss and climate change are two sides of the same coin. Why can’t we treat them that way? | Continue reading
The 1934 puzzle book Cain’s Jawbone stumped all but a handful of humans. Then AI took the case | Continue reading
Renewable energy has seen considerable growth in recent years, but there is a long way to go to achieve a clean energy future that averts the worst effects of the climate crisis | Continue reading
Greenland’s Steenstrup Glacier doubled its annual ice loss in just a few years, thanks to warm ocean water | Continue reading
Starship, a super powerful launch system that could revolutionize access to space, soared for mere minutes—but its test flight is still being hailed as a success | Continue reading
Amid a warming world, these conservationists have brought back a very old and very low-tech drought-busting practice and they are getting results. | Continue reading
Compared with landslides, volcanoes and hurricanes get a lot more attention, as well as research funding | Continue reading
Using “slow water” methods can make the Colorado River Basin and its people more resilient | Continue reading
In the 1970s Marie Nyswander thought that she had finally found a long-term treatment for heroin addiction, but not everyone agreed—including some of the people she was trying to help | Continue reading
A volatile compound makes nematodes food for oyster mushrooms | Continue reading
Lengthening days set off a cascade of events in migratory birds that culminates in the birth of a clutch of chicks | Continue reading
To pull power from the waves, you need a high tidal range or strong currents. Sea-level rise threatens to mess with both | Continue reading
A promising combination of exoplanet-finding methods pinpoints details about its first world | Continue reading
Hibernating brown bears avoid the blood clots that can develop in even temporarily immobile people. Scientists now think they know how the animals do it | Continue reading
Aggressive restrictions will affect carbon, smog and soot emissions from compact cars all the way up to long-haul trucks | Continue reading
In the early 1960s a trio at the Rockefeller Institute started a bold experiment to change the way heroin addiction was treated, and they did so using a drug originally created by “the devil’s chemist” | Continue reading
The CDC and FDA have decided that one updated COVID booster is enough for now, in contrast to recommendations from other countries and global health organizations | Continue reading
Using machine learning, researchers have now created a much sharper portrait of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87 | Continue reading
We now know that the first galaxies in our universe formed shockingly fast, thanks to the latest results from the James Webb Space Telescope | Continue reading
The Environmental Protection Agency has released draft regulations that set the stage for a huge transition to electric vehicles | Continue reading
A federal judge in Texas ruled to withdraw the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, potentially making medication abortion less accessible nationwide | Continue reading
A new material was used in a simple snail robot, but it could one day make artificial nervous systems for more complex machines | Continue reading
Recently released data from samples of the COVID-causing virus SARS-CoV-2 at the market where many early cases of the disease occurred suggest animals were present but stop short of proving that they were infected and transmitted the virus to humans | Continue reading
Recently released data from samples of the COVID-causing virus SARS-CoV-2 at the market where many early cases of the disease occurred suggest animals were present but stop short of proving that they were infected and transmitted the virus to humans | Continue reading
A careful new study reveals coffee is generally safe for your heart and may boost your daily step count. | Continue reading
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, physical and legal attacks against clinics that provide abortions have increased | Continue reading
Sea levels off the southeastern U.S. have risen more than a centimeter a year over the past decade—about triple the global average—and the effects on communities near the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean already are being observed | Continue reading
A judge’s bad decision about the abortion pill rests on stigma about abortion that harms health care | Continue reading
Killer whales rip open the bellies of sharks to snag the liver. Other predators also have dietary preferences for organs, brains and additional rich body parts | Continue reading
A recent Food and Drug Administration decision that makes naloxone available without a prescription may increase the drug’s accessibility. But cost could be a barrier | Continue reading
At an American Mathematical Society meeting, high school students presented a proof of the Pythagorean theorem that used trigonometry—an approach that some once considered impossible | Continue reading
With an April 7 court decision, one judge has harmed women’s health and undermined trust in science-based drug approvals in the U.S. | Continue reading
A candidate “rogue” supermassive black hole may weigh as much as 20 million suns and has sparked a trail of star formation that is 200,000 light-years long | Continue reading
As atmospheric temperatures rise with climate change, baseballs can travel farther through the air, allowing for more home runs | Continue reading
A new shape called an einstein has taken the math world by storm. The craggy, hat-shaped tile can cover an infinite plane with patterns that never repeat. | Continue reading
Red dwarfs are dim bulbs, but host more Earth-like planets than any other kind of star | Continue reading
Women with dense breasts are at higher risk of breast cancer and are underdiagnosed, but other factors also play an important role | Continue reading
Math is called the “universal language,” but a unique dialect is being reborn | Continue reading
These two researchers journey toward the center of the earth–via windows to the crust–to find bacteria that can breathe iron, arsenic and other metals that would kill us pretty quick. | Continue reading
Ancient Maya cities in laser focus, chickens gone wild in Singapore, high-tech drug research in the U.S., and much more in this month’s Quick Hits | Continue reading
The greenhouse gas intensity of offshore oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico could be twice as much as government estimates | Continue reading
The imagery offers a rare view of the ice giant’s ring system, bright moons and dynamic atmosphere | Continue reading