New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

A lung cancer trial bolsters a long-held idea that treatment timing matters, showing a simple shift could help immunotherapy ...

A student created a low-cost baby carrier that filters sunlight to safely treat jaundice where electricity and equipment are ...

Shorter food chains could mean reefs are less able to weather changes in food availability, threatening an already vulnerable ...

After 10 years, just over half the people in a trial of antibiotics for appendicitis have not needed an appendectomy.

The regurgitated material from before the time of dinosaurs provides a rare window into the feeding habits of a prehistoric ...

In Cape Verde, conservation has boosted the sea turtle population 100-fold — but the male-female balance is way off.

A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red dwarf’s four worlds.

After years of confusion, a new study confirms the proton is tinier than once thought. That enables a test of the standard model of particle physics.

Hydrogen reserves in Earth’s core large enough to supply at least nine oceans may influence processes on the surface today.

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Editor Janet Raloff has been a part of the Science News Media Group since 1977. While a staff writer at Science News, she covered the environment, toxicology, energy, science poli ...