Becoming a king of lions is as dramatic in real life as it is in the movies. A new four-part documentary series, Lion, ...

The star passes very close to the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole and could reveal the black hole’s spin by tracking how ...

In early trials, a new vaccine that didn’t require refrigeration still protected against tetanus and diphtheria.

Long-clawed shrews’ snouts temporarily grow larger in the winter. This skull reshaping may be an extreme survival strategy in ...

A plot device in the new Spider-Man movie is real-world science. A trick used to turn off fictional superpowers in the movie is based on actual genetic therapies for rare diseases.

Editor Janet Raloff has been a part of the Science News Media Group since 1977. While a staff writer at Science News, she ...

A recent shot of the COVID-19 vaccine doubled survival time in glioblastoma patients who had undergone tumor biopsy or ...

Snails have five distinct types of mucus, each with its own job. The mollusks tweak calcium secretions to get the chemical ...

Animals searching for water brought the forest to the city, perhaps sparking Brazil’s first yellow fever outbreak in decades.

In The Sheep Detectives, Mopple has a superpower: The anthropomorphic sheep can’t forget anything. He joins a long line of fictional characters with some version of photographic memory — a strikingly ...

Necrotizing enterocolitis strikes premature babies with almost no warning. A new approach aims to detect it early with a ...

Science News. Previously she was a news editor at New Scientist, where she ran the physical sciences section of the magazine ...