The Vera Rubin Observatory is shedding new light on the faraway regions by Neptune and beyond, including possible solar ...

Designed to study the powerful outbursts, the Swift Observatory quickly contributed to a wide range of discoveries. Now, it's ...

Using a proof-of-concept test to analyze fragments of RNA in urine, researchers can detect cases of bladder cancer.

GPS tracking reveals fast east-west flights lead to a mismatch between birds' internal time and the sun’s position, skewing ...

Madagascan flying foxes aren’t as mighty as they were 150 years ago. The big bats have shrunk, possibly due to selective ...

Everyday Earth clouds get their start with a bit of salt or dust. Not so the Red Planet's Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, ...

The first estimate of CTE prevalence across the NFL suggests 75 percent of players may suffer from the neurodegenerative ...

Beautiful ripples drew Víctor Ortega Jiménez to feeding flamingos. Unraveling their secret could inspire new ways to filter ...

Most comets would have hit Earth with too much speed and at too sharp an angle for life-giving molecules to survive impact, a ...

Senior physics writer Emily Conover joined Science News in 2016. She has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago, where she studied the weird ways of neutrinos, tiny elementary particles ...

Sophie Hartley is a Fall 2024 science writing intern at Science News. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Human Development and Creative Writing from the University of Chicago and a master’s ...