Jim Landahl, a National Park Service biological science technician, spent Friday, February 14, moving willow trees from a nursery to a helipad in Grand Canyon National Park. The trees were part of eff...
Since President Donald Trump took office a few weeks ago, the administration’s frenetic activity, which has included withdrawing from global agreements and slashing slashing federal jobs and funding, ...
The disguise is one of several tricks that the larvae use to live among killer termites This blowfly larva breathes through holes that closely resemble termite eyes, helping the impostor blend in insi...
Skip to content Sid Sivakumar, a puzzle constructor and M.D./Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering and neuroscience, edited this puzzle. Looking for answers? Go to sciencenews.org/puzzle-answers. We...
A water harvesting method long used by small desert communities could scale up for cities Large-scale fog water harvesting has the potential to relieve water stress at Alto Hospicio, a fast-growing ci...
Sex is messy. It’s not just about chromosomes. Or reproductive cells. Or any other binary metric. Many genetic, environmental and developmental variations can produce what are thought of as masculine ...
How objects charge when touched depends on their history, scientists find A balloon rubbed on hair will pick up a negative charge, but scientists still don’t understand exactly how this process works....
Formed after a solar superstorm, the belts lasted longer than scientists expected The May 2024 solar storm made two new radiation belts (purple) that slotted in between the permanent Van Allen belts (...
Pamela Canaday loves her job. For the last 20 years, she has been supporting biomedical research labs at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland by running flow cytometry, a test that helps res...
Why did humans start speaking? Scientists suggest genetics played a big role – and they say the evolution of this singular ability was key to our survival.A new study links a particular gene to the an...
High temperatures and extreme pressures create ice with properties of both crystalline ice and liquid water Scientists have finally observed plastic ice (illustrated), a sort of hybrid phase between s...
