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Runaway stars could influence the cosmos far past their home galaxies

Dozens of fugitive stars were caught fleeing a dense star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the...

A Major GLP-1 Drug Shortage Is Over. Some Patients Aren’t Celebrating

Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration announced that tirzepatide is no longer in shortage. It...

Florida Hospitals and Nursing Homes Are Bracing for Hurricane Milton

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene tore through the American Southeast, hospitals and health care providers...

Work on protein structure and design wins the 2024 chemistry Nobel

Meghan Rosen is a staff writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She...

Climate change fueled the fury of hurricanes Helene and Milton

Meteorologists have watched in awe as Hurricane Milton, churning over the anomalously warm waters in...

To tell a right-trunked elephant from a lefty, check the wrinkles

There’s a Sherlock Holmes tale in here somewhere: A clever observer could check wrinkles and whiskers on...

Europa Clipper is launching to solve an alien mystery

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will soon be on its way to help solve a quarter-century-old mystery: Could...

New electrical stitches use muscle movement to speed up healing

Stitches are getting a shocking upgrade. In an experiment in rats, a new strong, flexible thread...

The discovery of tools key to machine learning wins the 2024 physics Nobel

As artificial intelligence explodes in popularity, two of its pioneers have nabbed the 2024 Nobel Prize in...

Through Hurricanes Helene and Milton, Amateur Radio Triumphs When All Else Fails

The morning after Hurricane Helene pummeled the eastern seaboard of the US, Thomas Witherspoon inspected the damage...

Semaglutide saps mice’s motivation to run

CHICAGO — Mice love to run. But not when they’re taking semaglutide, the diabetes and weight-loss drug...

This Man Found 1,650 Ways to Turn a Profit While Decarbonizing

Ambition is not a dirty word—especially if you’re Bertrand Piccard. The explorer, psychiatrist, and environmentalist aims to...
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