Science NewsMaggots may have been on the Neandertal menuMaggots on rotting meat may have given Neandertals’ a fatty, nitrogen-rich boost, a study of their bones suggests.Jul 25, 2025
Science NewsThis desert beetle runs to cool offAfter a sprint, the temperature of the beetle Onymacris plana drops. Efficient running, a body built for cooling and a little bit of lift all help.Jul 25, 2025
Science NewsAI is designing proteins that could help treat cancerA team used generative AI to enhance T cells’ ability to fight melanoma. The immunotherapy approach needs more testing before use in cancer patients.Jul 24, 2025
Science NewsAn injected gel could make drugs like Ozempic last longerGLP-1 drugs for diabetes and weight loss are difficult for some people to inject weekly. A new slow-release gel, tested in rats, could help.Jul 24, 2025
Science NewsHow many steps a day do you really need to take?An analysis of 57 studies shows that people who walked a certain number of steps were less likely to die from any cause compared with those who walked less.Jul 23, 2025
Science NewsClimate change may be pushing fungal allergy season earlierRising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns may be lengthening fungal allergy season, which starts 3 weeks earlier than it did two decades ago.Jul 23, 2025
Science NewsAI reveals new details about a famous Latin inscriptionAn analysis of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti using AI reveals its legal tone and imperial messaging, offering new insights missed by historians.Jul 23, 2025
Science NewsForget discrete droplets. This is how sweat really formsThe most-detailed look yet at how we perspire reveals that beads of sweat are out, puddling is in.Jul 22, 2025
Science NewsScreen addiction affects teens’ mental health. How to spot it, and helpBanning screens is often not an option. So Science News spoke with experts studying screen use and addiction in teens to help families navigate this complex issue.Jul 22, 2025
Science NewsU.S. measles outbreaks may end a hard-won victory over the virusDropping vaccination rates and changes in U.S. vaccine policy have public health experts concerned that annual measles outbreaks could become more frequent.Jul 22, 2025
Science NewsBetelgeuse’s companion star revealed in new imagesRevealed by advanced imaging, the long-sought "Betelbuddy" is much smaller and fainter than Betelgeuse and orbits within the supergiant’s atmosphere.Jul 21, 2025
Science NewsThis killer fungus strikes at sunset. Here’s howThe fungus Entomophthora muscae turns flies into zombies and kills them at sunset. An internal kill clock may explain the mysterious timing.Jul 21, 2025
Science NewsHere’s how air pollution may trigger lung cancerExposure to air pollution may trigger DNA mutations that cause lung cancer in nonsmokers.Jul 21, 2025
Science NewsA summer of escalating existential threatsEditor in Chief Nancy Shute reflects on the renewed specter of nuclear conflict to record-breaking heat driven by human-caused climate change.Jul 19, 2025
Science NewsReaders wonder about quantum biology, babies’ memories and parrot speechA quantum query A century ago, physicists laid the foundation of quantum mechanics. Today, with greater control of quantum systems, scientists are making major leaps in quantum computing, quantum gravity and more, senior physics writer...Jul 19, 2025
Science NewsU.S. FDA may nix black box warning on some menopause estrogen treatmentsExperts worry the warning on vaginal estrogen menopause treatments is doing more harm than good and is not supported by science.Jul 18, 2025
Science NewsA child’s biological sex may not always be a random 50-50 chanceSome people’s biology may set them up to birth babies of a certain sex, explaining why a family with multiple children may have all girls or all boys.Jul 18, 2025
Science News‘Rehab’ exposes the dark underside of U.S. drug treatment centersIn Rehab, journalist Shoshana Walter investigates the systemic pitfalls of drug treatment programs, which prevent people’s recovery from addiction.Jul 18, 2025
Science NewsMath puzzle: Can you meet me at the mall?Solve the math puzzle from our August 2025 issue, which takes you back to the time before cell phones.Jul 18, 2025
Science NewsWhat to know about the extreme U.S. flooding — and ways to stay safeAn oceanographer explains how climate change, warming oceans and a souped-up atmosphere are creating conditions for deadly floods.Jul 17, 2025
Science NewsSome penguins save energy by riding ocean currentsWhen navigating home, Magellanic penguins alternate between heading straight back in calm waters and swimming with the flow in strong ocean currents.Jul 17, 2025
Science NewsA dog’s taste for TV may depend on its temperamentAnxious dogs might react nervously to some television sounds, a survey of dog owners reports, while hyper ones might try to play chase.Jul 17, 2025
Science NewsHow hot can Earth get? Our planet’s climate history holds cluesEarth has survived huge temperature swings over eons of climate change. Humans might not be so lucky.Jul 17, 2025
Science NewsA newly discovered cell helps pythons poop out the bones of their preyThe cells helps the snakes absorb the bones of their prey — and might show up in other animals that chomp their meals whole.Jul 16, 2025
Science NewsHow an ancient marine predator snuck up on its preySerrations at the edges of a fossilized flipper of the ancient marine reptile Temnodontosaurussuggests it may have been able to swim silently.Jul 16, 2025
Science NewsThis star offers the earliest peek at the birth of a planetary system like oursA young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.Jul 16, 2025
Science NewsNo, shaken baby syndrome has not been discreditedDefense lawyers have called shaken baby syndrome, or abusive head trauma, junk science. But doctors say shaking a baby is dangerous.Jul 16, 2025
Science NewsIn a first, an image shows a dying star exploded twice to become a supernova The image offers the first evidence for a previously unconfirmed origin story of type 1a supernovas.Jul 15, 2025
Science NewsProtein signatures may one day tell brain diseases apart before symptomsBlood tests could pave the way for distinguishing between Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and some dementias, aiding early treatment for brain diseases.Jul 15, 2025
Science NewsOrgan age, not just your birthday, may determine your health risksBlood proteins that reveal some organs age faster than others — and that may predict disease and lifespan.Jul 15, 2025
Science NewsDoes the AI industry operate like a modern colonial empire?In Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao investigates OpenAI and the social and environmental costs of a multinational tech arms race.Jul 14, 2025
Science NewsHow fast did dinosaurs really go? Birds walking in mud provide new cluesTracks of dinosaur footprints can hint at how fast the extinct animals moved. Here’s how guinea fowl can help fact-check those assumptions.Jul 14, 2025
Science NewsThe biggest black hole smashup ever detected challenges physics theoriesGravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.Jul 13, 2025
Science NewsA newly discovered interstellar object might predate the solar system3I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.Jul 11, 2025
Science NewsGut microbes may flush ‘forever chemicals’ from the bodyExperiments in mice show that some gut bacteria can absorb toxic PFAS chemicals, allowing animals to expel them through feces.Jul 11, 2025
Science NewsNew Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We’re still learning from itOver the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.Jul 11, 2025
Science NewsGreenland sled dog DNA is a window into the Arctic’s archaeological pastA genomic analysis of Greenland’s Qimmeq dogs suggest they and their human partners arrived on the island centuries earlier than previously thought.Jul 10, 2025
Science NewsTrees can’t get up and walk away, but forests canIn fantasy worlds, trees like the Lord of the Rings’ Ents are agile and mobile. In the real world, they’re slow.Jul 10, 2025
Science NewsAs bird flu evolves, keeping it out of farm flocks is getting harderNew versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.Jul 09, 2025
Science NewsAn ancient Earth impact could help in the search for Martian lifeStrange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.Jul 09, 2025
Science NewsDeep-sea mining could start soon — before we understand its risksThe U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.Jul 09, 2025
Science NewsThese 5 nutrients might be lacking in your dietU.S. diets should include more of vitamins D and E, fiber, calcium and magnesium — all are essential nutrients that could offer health benefits.Jul 08, 2025
Science NewsWhy these zombie caterpillars can’t stop eating Sneaky chemistry by a real-life “Last of Us” Cordyceps fungus mind controls its zombie insect victims by convincing them they’re starving.Jul 08, 2025
Science NewsScientists 3-D printed a tiny elephant inside a cellThe first structures ever 3-D printed inside living cells point to applications for biology research.Jul 08, 2025
Science NewsNASA images may help track sewage in coastal watersSewage-contaminated water absorbs certain wavelengths of light, leaving a signature that can be detected by space-based instruments, a new study finds.Jul 07, 2025
Science NewsA drowned landscape held clues to the lives of ancient human relativesThe remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.Jul 07, 2025
Science NewsChronic low back pain may be less likely if you walk – a lotAdults who walked more than 100 minutes per day were less likely to have chronic low back pain than those who walked fewer than 78 minutes per day.Jul 07, 2025
Science NewsA third visitor from another star is hurtling through the solar systemScientists have found a new interstellar object whizzing toward the sun.Jul 03, 2025
Science NewsNearly half of the universe’s ordinary matter was uncharted, until nowTwo studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.Jul 03, 2025
Science NewsClimate change could separate vanilla plants and their pollinatorsThe vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.Jul 03, 2025
