Science
Zhengzhou Metro floods a warning to other major cities
Rescue workers enter a station in Zhengzhou, China's subway line 5, to inspect flooding on July 26. China Daily via...
Debates healthy obesity, delays type 1 diabetes and visits bone marrow
Jason Solo / Jacky Winter Group Earlier this week, staff writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the...
Lethal viruses help moths and butterflies fight parasitic wasps
Wasp larvae (yellow) kill a cabbage butterfly larva - which might have survived if it had first been infected by...
Do these fossilized structures belong to Earth’s first animals?
An enlarged look at the branching patterns that a study researcher says resembles the structures left behind by modern horny...
It overlooked the superpower of mRNA vaccines
A worker prepares a vaccine in Qatar, where a study showed that Moderna's jab blocked more than 90% of asymptomatic...
France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease hits two laboratory workers
Émilie Jaumain in 2010, the year she was exposed to prions during a laboratory accident. She died in 2019 at...
A new ‘green list’ provides way m for species recovery
The gray wolf is not in danger of extinction, but its green list status shows how much more it needs...
Rejection of US visa shattered Chinese students’ dreams. Now they are fighting back
Former United States President Donald Trump's proclamation is "a policy of discrimination on the grounds of nationality," said Hu Desheng,...
Smart carpentry helps bees fix wild gingerbread
This false color image shows how skewed the cells within different sections of honeycomb are, with their direction varying by...
Nobel lists reject Chinese government censorship attempt at Nobel summit
The Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC, wanted to prevent Nobel laureate Yuan Lee, a Taiwanese chemist seen here in 2003,...
The UN Climate Panel confronts improbably hot forecasts for future warming
California's Lake Oroville has shrunk into a severe, persistent drought, one of many climate impacts that models predict will quickly...
Project launched to look for extraterrestrial visitors in our solar system
The 2017 demonstration of an odd intersellar object named `Oumuamua (aristocratic representation above) prompted this week's launch of a project...
Transplant patient’s higher incidence of COVID-19 breakthrough increases booster vaccines
Doctors recommend that organ transplant patients such as the liver recipient Andrea Lopez Robles from Madrid continue to take precautions...
This is the first mini-particle accelerator to power a laser
From the laser and gas target (left) to undulators (blue) and the electromagnetic spectrometer (right), the new free electron laser...
The Great Barrier Reef is ‘in danger’ listing after intense Australian lobbying
UNESCO had recommended that the Great Barrier Reef be listed as "endangered", partly to proclaim Australia's inaction on climate change....
New public database of AI-predicted protein structures could transform biology
Computers can now happily and reliably predict 3D female for most proteins, such as this structure from a fruit fly....
Astronomers spy on possible moons by staying in a distant star system
The star and planets in this Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array radio image cannot be seen - these wavelengths...
Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease and what earthquakes on Mars reveal about the core of the red planet
C. Bickel /Science Earlier this week, Associate Editor Kelly Servick joins us to discuss a major push to develop scalable...
Australia’s cockatoos are masters of dumpster diving – and now they’re learning from each other
A sulfur cockatoo opens the lid of a household trash can. Barbara Klump / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior...
When will COVID-19 vaccines be fully proven – and does it matter if they are?
A Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is administered at a mobile clinic in Los Angeles County that has pockets of vaccine hesitation....
NASA’s Perseverance rover to drill first samples of martian rock
"Pope" stones like these will be Perseverance's first drilling target. NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS After months of space travel,...
Blood tests can help screen for expected flooding of patients seeking new Alzheimer’s drug
A scientist at C2N Diagnostics is preparing to analyze blood samples by mass spectrometry. JERRY NAUNHEIM When the U.S. government...
How COVID-19 has transformed scientific fieldwork
Katty huertas Just before dawn in the Jama-Coaque Ecological Reserve, a spot of Ecuador's lush coastal forest, Abhimanyu Lele unfolds...
DNA drawn from the air identifies nearby animals
This icefish, which stuns its prey, can spread DNA from both species in the air. Kevin Elsby / FLPA /...
Europe’s deadly floods amaze scientists
Flash floods surprised many communities in Germany, including the city of Insul, leading to at least 165 deaths. Photo /...
