Learn about the formation of the grains within many meteorites, emerging from collisions of planetary bodies in the early Solar System.
Learn how new ocean floor formed in real time as earthquakes, sinking crust, and fresh lava reshaped the Southeast Indian Ridge.
The latest report examines global disparities in cancer care, identifies preventable risk factors, and calls for greater political commitment to improve outcomes.
No person blind from birth has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Learn what this tell us about psychosis — and about how the mind works.
Learn how the latest IUCN Red List update links deep-sea mining, diamond projects, and invasive predators to extinction risks.
Learn more about the gray fox, why its population may be declining in the Midwest, and how citizen scientists can help monitor it.
Learn how a recent typhoon-caused flood in southern China unleashed hundreds of venomous snakes onto unsuspecting residential areas, with one death already reported.
Learn more about Legionnaires' disease and what the source of the current outbreak in New York City may be.
Learn about apoB, a cholesterol test that has proven to be a better indicator of heart attack and stroke risk than traditional “bad cholesterol” screening.
Learn how fish and amphibians have regions of vertebrae that may act like necks, challenging an common anatomical assumption.
Learn how the Parker Solar Probe detected charged dust that may help explain why the Sun’s corona gets so hot.
Learn how an MIT physicist’s proposed detector could help verify whether satellites are secretly carrying nuclear material in space.
Researchers are investigating the potential of CRISPR in relation to Down syndrome.
Learn how gene editing is transforming sickle cell disease treatment and why expanding access to younger children matters.
Learn how Tianwen-2 reached Kamo'oalewa, an Earth quasi-satellite that may be a piece of the Moon, before attempting to collect samples.
Learn more about the critical drought that is leaving Lake Powell lower than usual and the impacts that could have on hydropower dams and the people who rely on that water.
Learn how discarded oyster meat showed anti-inflammatory effects in human intestinal cells, with potential implications for chronic diseases like IBD and diabetes.
Learn how Early Paleoindians may have survived on a diet made almost entirely of mammoths, giant ground sloths, and other Ice Age mammals.
Learn how Alzheimer's prevention may be added to the tuberculosis vaccine's long list of uses, alongside treating infections and cancer.
Learn how new research is changing what we know about Homo floresiensis, casting doubt on theories that they were big game hunters.