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by Alyss Sutton
Acrid smoke continues to pollute skies in the western United States. On some recent days, the air quality in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and ...
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by Alyss Sutton
A fearsome [disease] has been recognized in recent years, produced by a one-cell organism…. Mercifully, human invasion is rare, for the invader, a...
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by Alyss Sutton
Footprints discovered at what was once a rain-fed lake in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert suggest that humans on the move made a pit stop there more t...
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by Alyss Sutton
Sound waves traveling thousands of kilometers through the ocean may help scientists monitor climate change.
As greenhouse gas emissions warm the p...
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by Alyss Sutton
To better understand how widely the coronavirus has spread in the United States, some researchers are turning to an unusual source of data: blood ...
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by Alyss Sutton
Everyone has an opinion about what makes people, especially the troublemakers, who they are. Bad parents, bad genes, bad society, bad luck, bad ...
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by Alyss Sutton
For over a decade, astronomers have puzzled over the origins of fast radio bursts, brief blasts of radio waves that come mostly from distant galax...
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by Alyss Sutton
For a Game Boy doppelgänger, “batteries not included” is a perk, not a problem.
The prototype handheld game console, built by researchers at North...
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by Alyss Sutton
Ostracods look like nothing more than seeds with legs. But some species of these tiny crustaceans have an outsize claim to fame: giant sperm. In t...
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by Alyss Sutton
The NASA Artemis missions aim to send astronauts to the moon by 2024. But to succeed, they’ll need to solve big problems caused by some tiny parti...
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by Alyss Sutton
In their dying throes, some stars leave behind beautiful planetary nebulae — disk, spiral or even butterfly-shaped clouds of dust and gas (SN: 5/1...
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by Alyss Sutton
Astrophysicists have gotten their first direct view of a supermassive black hole’s appearance changing over time.
The black hole at the center of...
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