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Brain cancer can dissolve parts of the skull

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

In Orbit You Have to Slow Down to Speed Up

If you watch sci-fi movies, you’d think that flying a spaceship is just like driving a slightly...

Meet the Palestinian Teens Trying to Win Robotics Gold

For the entirety of the past year, as the teenage roboticists of Team Palestine have been working...

Dinosaurs were thriving before the asteroid hit, new analysis suggests

A ridge of rocks in New Mexico holds a snapshot of a dinosaur heyday. Fossils of crested...

Subway mosquitoes evolved millennia ago in ancient Mediterranean cities

Subterranean mosquitoes specialized for life in subways and sewers first evolved to pester humans millennia ago in...

Coffee beans pooped out by civets really are tastier. Here’s why

The world’s most prized coffee comes from partially digested beans pooped out by the Asian palm civet....

Which venomous snakes strike the fastest?

Some vipers are the sprinters of snakes. Vipers wielded the fastest attacks in a comparison of 36...

Quantum ‘echoes’ reveal the potential of Google’s quantum computer

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She...

Scientists and fishers have teamed up to find a way to save manta rays

The vessel rolled in the swell as fishers pulled huge nets bursting with tuna onto the deck...

Most women get uterine fibroids. This researcher wants to know why

Painful experience has taught Erika Moore that benign doesn’t always mean harmless. Moore, a biomedical engineer at...

NASA’s Boss Just Shook Up the Agency’s Plans to Land on the Moon

NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy made two television appearances on Monday morning in which he shook up...

Resistant Bacteria Are Advancing Faster Than Antibiotics

The proliferation of difficult-to-treat bacterial diseases represents a growing threat, according to the World Health Organization's (WHO)...
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