Heat therapy for sick frogs lowers sperm levels
Science Newsby Priyanka Runwal2h ago
Bad news for frogs getting sauna therapy: The heat treatment for their fatal fungal infection may come at a cost.
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top 63%Personalized brain stimulation can ease chronic pain
Science Newsby Laura Sanders4h ago
By mapping a woman’s pain in her brain, scientists could dial it down. A small series of case studies, published July 30 in Brain Stimulation, suggests that even tenacious, complex pain signals can...
Motor neurons don’t just move muscles. They may direct that motion too
Science Newsby Yujia Huang8h ago
Motor neurons, the nerve cells that control muscles, have a reputation as passive messengers. But growing evidence suggests they do more than simply relay the brain’s commands.
Mysteries of the commonplace
Science Newsby Nancy Shute2d ago
Static electricity is all around us. Who among us has not experienced a painful zap when touching a doorknob after crossing a carpeted room?
Thunderquakes can act like X-rays for the ground
Science Newsby Carolyn Gramling2d ago
“Thunderquakes” ho! Using intense sound waves generated by thunder, scientists created maps of the shallow geology beneath a large U.S. university.
Plants under attack leave behind a surprising call for backup
Science Newsby Erin Garcia de Jesús3d ago
When insect pests get the munchies, some plants call in the microbes. Gnawing fly larvae provoke cowpea plants to release chemicals into the soil that nurture a helpful community of microbes.
Shock wave therapy for erectile dysfunction is on the rise
Science Newsby Randy Dotinga3d ago
Some men in the United States seeking relief for erectile dysfunction aren’t getting prescriptions for Viagra.
Why Epstein-Barr is the ‘everything virus’
Science Newsby Michael Marshall3d ago
When Rae Mainwaring was 13, she developed a peculiar illness. She recalls “just feeling awful” and experiencing a crushing fatigue.
Spikes, claws and stingers have no single best shape
Science Newsby Emily Conover4d ago
Spines, spikes, stingers, teeth, claws, beaks, fangs, tusks: Nature’s prickly bits come in a wide variety, but they all reflect the same trade-off.
An unproven autism drug got a boost after a White House briefing
Science Newsby Aimee Cunningham4d ago
In 2025, the number of children receiving a drug promoted — but unproven — for autism treatment grew, especially toward the end of the year.
Static electricity is a mystery, and scientists are all charged up
Science Newsby Emily Conover5d ago
Galien Grosjean was a caretaker of tiny glass beads. He bathed them, gently cradled them with tweezers, placed them delicately in his experimental apparatus.
A new documentary shows what growing up lion is really like
Science Newsby Tina Hesman Saey5d ago
Becoming a king of lions is as dramatic in real life as it is in the movies. A new four-part documentary series, Lion, captures the journey of a cub named Kio in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National...
A record-breaking star could reveal how the Milky Way’s giant black hole spins
Science Newsby Mara Johnson-Groh5d ago
There’s a new speed demon in the galaxy. Astronomers spotted a star that reaches top speeds of 25,000 kilometers per second, about 8 percent the speed of light.
No refrigerator, no problem. This experimental vaccine doesn’t need it.
Science Newsby Sahas Mehra5d ago
The vast majority of existing vaccines need to be kept cold, a costly and logistical challenge that limits access to millions of people living in poor and wartorn regions.
Shrews’ noses grow in winter as their brains shrink
Science Newsby Jake Buehler5d ago
This nose grows. During harsh Japanese winters, long-clawed shrews’ snouts temporarily expand. The seasonal swelling is the opposite of the previously known winter pattern in shrews, in which the...
What Spider-Man gets right — and wrong — about turning off superpowers
Science Newsby Tina Hesman Saey6d ago
Note: Slight spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. A plot device in the new Spider-Man movie is real-world science.
Snail slime does many jobs thanks to calcium
Science Newsby Jake Buehler7d ago
Not all slime is created equal. A species of land snails tweaks its slime’s chemical recipe to create five different varieties of mucus, using each for a particular job.
The COVID-19 vaccine may offer brain cancer patients a surprise benefit
Science Newsby Meghan Rosen7d ago
The COVID-19 vaccine may give brain cancer patients a bonus shot at survival. Patients who received the vaccine within 100 days before biopsy or tumor surgery lived twice as long as those who...
How a brutal drought may have helped unleash yellow fever in Brazil
Science Newsby Erin Garcia de Jesús9d ago
Rain may bring disease-carrying mosquitoes. But the lack of it could have been a factor that led to the first urban yellow fever outbreak in Brazil in decades.
A light-based scan could detect deadly bowel disease in preterm babies
Science Newsby Brendan Pierson10d ago
Necrotizing enterocolitis, a life-threatening inflammation of the intestine that mostly affects premature babies, can strike with almost no warning.