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Trees can’t get up and walk away, but forests can

An army of treelike creatures called Ents marches to war in the second The Lord of the...

Dr. ChatGPT Will See You Now

A poster on Reddit lived with a painful clicking jaw, the result of a boxing injury, for...

Scientists Succeed in Reversing Parkinson’s Symptoms in Mice

Cases of Parkinson’s disease have doubled in the last 25 years, according to figures from the World...

Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized

The horses are slick with sweat, veins bulging, feet dancing through a maelstrom of legs and mallets...

As bird flu evolves, keeping it out of farm flocks is getting harder

H5N1 bird flu isn’t going away. In fact, the virus continues to spin off new versions that...

An ancient Earth impact could help in the search for Martian life

In a remote desert, scientists have discovered one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It dates to well...

Deep-sea mining could start soon — before we understand its risks

An underwater gold rush may be on the horizon — or rather, a rush to mine the...

China Has Attempted What Might Be the First-Ever Orbital Refueling of a Satellite

Two Chinese satellites have rendezvoused with one another more than 20,000 miles above the Earth in what...

A Giant Planet and a Small Star Are Shaking Up Conventional Cosmological Theory

Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much smaller than...

Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats

On Sunday afternoon, Michael Meyer, the founder of anti-government extremist group Veterans on Patrol, posted a warning...

These 5 nutrients might be lacking in your diet

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

Why these zombie caterpillars can’t stop eating 

Here’s a new detail of how a real-life Cordyceps fungus zombifies still-living animals: Crashing their “blood sugar.”...
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