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Climate Change Made Hurricane Melissa 4 Times More Likely, Study Suggests

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Fueled by...

The ‘10 Martini’ Proof Connects Quantum Mechanics With Infinitely Intricate Mathematical Structures

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In 1974, five years before he wrote his...

A new AI technique may aid violent crime forensics

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

Cancer treatments may get a boost from mRNA COVID vaccines

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

How Do Metal Detectors Work?

Why would you want to detect metal? Oh, I don't know … maybe you want to find...

Nanotyrannus was not a teenaged T. rex

For decades, researchers have debated whether a fossil of a small, fierce theropod belonged to a teenaged...

A New Startup Wants to Edit Human Embryos

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the...

NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Jet Takes Flight

About an hour after sunrise over the Mojave Desert of Southern California, NASA’s newest experimental supersonic jet...

This flower smells like injured ants — and flies can’t resist it

A Japanese flower lures in its pollinators with a morbid perfume — the scent of injured ants....

A Fight Over Big Tech’s Emissions Has the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Caught in the Crossfire

Last week’s request for public comment from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) doesn’t look like a major...

How to Keep Subways and Trains Cool in an Ever Hotter World

The highest temperature that Jonathan Paul has ever recorded in a London Tube station is about 42...

Some planets might home brew their own water

Some planets might produce their own water instead of relying on outside sources. In laboratory experiments, researchers...
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