A new international study finds that the growth and development benefits of children living in cities may have diminished in the past two decades | Continue reading
The “absolutely monstrous” cosmic blast is estimated to be a 1-in-10,000-year event | Continue reading
As part of its effort to prod the construction industry to go green, the Biden administration is providing new funding for rebuilding with low-carbon materials after disasters | Continue reading
This novel injection system could help advance gene therapy by nimbly inserting gene-editing enzymes into a variety of cell types | Continue reading
The asteroid Didymos witnessed its companion get slammed by NASA’s DART spacecraft, and Didymos itself may have interesting activity | Continue reading
Wherever we dig and however deep we dig we find microscopic living organisms. Could they eat the carbon we're pumping into the air? | Continue reading
The end of Roe reshaped abortion access across the U.S. What does it take to track those changes? | Continue reading
TRAPPIST-1b is probably an airless rock, but the same may not be true for its six Earth-sized siblings | Continue reading
The firearm as a totemlike symbol of personal identity emerged from the psychological insecurities of former enslavers after the Civil War | Continue reading
Post-COVID symptoms can linger for months or years, and more and more evidence points to problems with the nervous system. | Continue reading
The chatbot was the ideal test taker—it exhibited no trace of test anxiety, poor concentration or lack of effort—and what about that IQ score? | Continue reading
Unlike other senses, smell is not something doctors routinely test for—but some scientists think that should change | Continue reading
The menagerie that twirls and twirls includes gorillas, bonobos and, yes, us humans | Continue reading
Stress on health care facilities might have accelerated outbreaks of the hard-to-treat yeast Candida auris | Continue reading
A new era of neurotechnology means we may need new protections to safeguard our brains and mental experiences | Continue reading
Being infected with HIV is no longer a terminal diagnosis, but researchers are looking to fill the gaps that remain to ensure treatment reaches all who need it | Continue reading
Music made with artificial intelligence could upend the music industry. Here’s what that might look like. | Continue reading
Hundreds of unfilled residency spots in emergency medicine are telling us that critical care is in trouble | Continue reading
After recent earthquakes, Türkiye and Syria continue to grapple with a mass of rubble that could pollute, poison and alter the lives of everyone around it | Continue reading
Scientists say countries need to cut emissions far deeper to prevent catastrophic warming. That fact will hang over delegates when they meet later this year at the annual U.N. climate talks | Continue reading
East Palestine residents are looking to independent researchers to fill gaps left by authorities about the toxic chemicals that could be affecting people after a train derailment | Continue reading
A strange discovery could provide a window into the universe’s earliest galaxies | Continue reading
Google’s new AI model can generate entirely new music from text prompts. Here’s what they sound like. | Continue reading
Here’s how to tell whether your eye drops are safe to use and how to recognize a potential infection | Continue reading
While it may seem daunting, there are still many things we can do individually to slow climate change | Continue reading
Insurers face a “crisis of confidence” as global warming makes weather events unpredictable and increases damage | Continue reading
Argentine mathematician Luis Caffarelli has won the 2023 Abel Prize for making natural phenomena more understandable and eliminating dreaded “infinities” from a calculation | Continue reading
Hundreds of millions of people lack access to safe water and sanitation. Will the first U.N. conference on water in nearly 50 years make a difference? | Continue reading
Luis Caffarelli’s work includes equations underpinning physical phenomena, such as melting ice and flowing liquids | Continue reading
DNA from locks of Beethoven’s hair reveals how the composer died, but his hearing loss remains a mystery | Continue reading
A new study in rats suggests “powerhouse” organelles could help heal not only hearts but other organs damaged by lack of oxygen during cardiac arrest | Continue reading
A new study suggests that ’Oumuamua, the mysterious visitor that whizzed through our solar system in 2017, may have been merely a small comet from another star | Continue reading
Ocean animals are growing sicker from ingesting too much plastic | Continue reading
In the climate crisis, wetlands have more economic value than new development | Continue reading
Now is the time to protect the health and safety of civilians who will be traveling, living and working in the dangerous environment of space | Continue reading
Birds are heading north before their insect prey emerge. Bees are missing out on early blossoms. Ticks and other pests have more time to feast and spread disease | Continue reading
Machine-learning algorithms are getting so good that they can translate Western instruments into Thai ones with ease. | Continue reading
The IPCC’s latest climate assessment says the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent by 2035, but the U.S. is already behind on a less ambitious target | Continue reading
It’s probably a matter of when and how, not if, we humans will meet our doom | Continue reading
To keep warming below levels that scientists say will bring extreme climate impacts, nations must act quickly to make deep cuts in carbon emissions, according to the final installment of the IPCC’s latest climate report | Continue reading
Open-office designs create productivity and health problems. New insights from Deaf and autistic communities could fix them | Continue reading
In Key Largo, Fla., scientists are looking to protect endangered native rodents and slow the invasion of massive Burmese pythons | Continue reading
Spring’s burst of brightness comes before chloroplasts grow and mature | Continue reading
Decades of failed attempts have given way to several successful vaccines and treatments for the respiratory disease RSV | Continue reading
Hairiness is the perfect way to demonstrate the math underlying the “pigeonhole principle,” first conceived in 1622 | Continue reading
In the inaugural episode of Cosmos, Quickly, we blast off with Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno of Space Force who is charged with protecting our space in space, particularly from Russia and China. | Continue reading
Venture capitalists and start-ups don’t mind losing money, but dealing with a bank run is a whole different story | Continue reading
Genetic sequences show evidence of raccoon dogs and other animals at the Wuhan market sites where SARS-CoV-2 was found in early 2020, adding to evidence of a natural spillover event | Continue reading