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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)...

New Report Finds Efforts to Slow Climate Change Are Working—Just Not Fast Enough

In the 10 years since the signing of the Paris Agreement, the backbone of international climate action,...

An ancient bone recasts how Indigenous Australians treated megafauna

Australia’s First Peoples were more early paleontologists than extinction-driving butchers, a group of scientists argue. For decades,...

A tiny, levitated glass sphere behaves like the hottest engine ever made

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

Sperm From Older Men Have More Genetic Mutations

Human semen not only accumulates genetic mutations with age; as the percentage of sperm carrying potentially serious...

COVID-related smell loss may last years

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

Easter Island’s Moai Statues May Have Walked to Where They Now Stand

Easter Island statues, traditionally known as moai on the remote island of Rapa Nui in the South...

Mystery Object From ‘Space’ Strikes United Airlines Flight Over Utah

The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Sunday that it is investigating an airliner that was struck by...
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