A mysterious spiraling blue light illuminated the night skies over Europe on Monday.The cosmic whirlpool was captured in stunning video and appears to have been created by the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket b...
Humans undergoing similar radiation for cancer treatment often suffer painful side effects A protein unique to tardigrades (one shown here under a microscope) can help reduce DNA damage caused by radi...
John Green’s new book unravels how social injustice sustains the disease Henry Reider, a survivor of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, makes videos to fight stigma surrounding the disease in Lakka, Si...
The plants ooze a “larval toffee” that essentially starves tomato pinworm larvae The South American tomato pinworm (Tuta absoluta) is damaging tomato plants on four continents. Adding silicon nanopart...
Taylor Swift may not be the first person who comes to mind when you think about climate change. But more than once, the singer has found herself in the middle of a media storm over her carbon dioxide...
Compared with European Union countries and others, the United States is an outlier While avoidable deaths in the United States rose, on average, from 2009 to 2019, they trended down for European Union...
In this bonus episode of The Deep End, listen to an interview with Jon Nelson. He’ll share how he’s doing these days, now that his depression is gone. You’ll hear about the work still ahead of him, wh...
What happens when an octopus jumps on a shark for a ride around town? A "sharktopus," of course.The rare sighting, captured on video off the coast of New Zealand and shared by scientists affiliated wi...
Common coot nests preserve layers of plastic dating back decades Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra excavates a common coot nest he and colleagues collected in Amsterdam. City birds have been making thei...
In Memory Lane, two psychologists lay out the vagaries of how we remember A new book proposes that human memory is like a Lego tower, built from the ground up, broken down, put away and rebuilt each t...
A new mRNA vaccine could prevent pancreatic cancer from returning — potentially for the long haul. In a small clinical trial, some patients who received the vaccine remained cancer-free for more than ...
A taste for silky shark versus stingray may drive migration behavior Smaller fish surround this great hammerhead shark. The sharks’ taste for different foods might have a surprising conservation impac...
