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Science Newsby Carolyn Gramling·8h ago

“Thunderquakes” ho! Using intense sound waves generated by thunder, scientists created maps of the shallow geology beneath a large U.S. university.

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Science Newsby Erin Garcia de Jesús·11h 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.

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Science Newsby Randy Dotinga·14h ago

Some men in the United States seeking relief for erectile dysfunction aren’t getting prescriptions for Viagra.

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Science Newsby Ben Feldman·14h ago

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Science Newsby Michael Marshall·1d ago

When Rae Mainwaring was 13, she developed a peculiar illness. She recalls “just feeling awful” and experiencing a crushing fatigue.

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Science Newsby Emily Conover·1d 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.

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Science Newsby Aimee Cunningham·1d ago

In 2025, the number of children receiving a drug promoted — but unproven — for autism treatment grew, especially toward the end of the year.

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Science Newsby Emily Conover·2d 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.

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Science Newsby Tina Hesman Saey·2d 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...

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Science Newsby Mara Johnson-Groh·2d 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.

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Science Newsby Sahas Mehra·2d 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.

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Science Newsby Jake Buehler·3d 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...

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Science Newsby Tina Hesman Saey·3d ago

Note: Slight spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. A plot device in the new Spider-Man movie is real-world science.

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Science Newsby Jake Buehler·4d 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.

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Science Newsby Meghan Rosen·4d 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...

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Science Newsby Erin Garcia de Jesús·7d 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.

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Science Newsby Brendan Pierson·7d ago

Necrotizing enterocolitis, a life-threatening inflammation of the intestine that mostly affects premature babies, can strike with almost no warning.

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Science Newsby Erin Garcia de Jesús·7d ago

In The Sheep Detectives, Mopple has a superpower: The anthropomorphic sheep can’t forget anything.

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Science Newsby Emily Conover·8d ago

A key facet of a proton’s identity can be traced to the glue that holds it together. A new study suggests that a property called the baryon number — a defining characteristic of protons and related...

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Science Newsby Emily Conover·8d ago

The sun routinely blasts charged particles into space, but similar outbursts from other stars have been mysteriously hard to spot.

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