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.

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

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

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We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen environmental ...

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

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

A 26-kilogram plastic garment, flown on a model human torso on the uncrewed Artemis I mission, may one day protect astronauts ...

School device use links with lower test scores and distractions abound. But reversing the entrenched pandemic pivot to ...

Estrogen-only menopause therapy in older women was linked to less Alzheimer’s brain pathology at autopsy but may not prevent ...

Gluons do more than hold protons together. They may also help define the proton’s identity through a quantum property called ...