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The unsung women of quantum physics get their due

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

As quantum mechanics turns 100, a new revolution is under way

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

Juvenile capuchins are kidnapping infants of another monkey species

There’s a serious case of stranger danger unfolding on an island off the coast of Panama. A...

A ‘talking’ ape’s death signals the end of an era

Erin Wayman is the managing editor for print and longform content at Science News. She has...

RSV wasn’t as hard on U.S. babies last winter. This may be why

Last winter’s respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, season wasn’t as brutal for U.S. babies. A new study...

New audio tech could let you listen privately without headphones

Controlling sound has long been a staple of science fiction and fantasy. In Dune, the cone of...

FDA plan to ban fluoride supplements baffles and alarms dental experts

A decades-old dental health treatment may soon vanish in the United States. Access to fluoride supplements, prescribed...

An at-home cervical cancer screening device was OK‘d by the FDA

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

A Baby Received a Custom Crispr Treatment in Record Time

Last August, KJ Muldoon was born with a potentially fatal genetic disorder. Just six months later, he...

Seafloor amber may hold hints of a tsunami 115 million years ago

Wavelike patterns in 115-million-year-old amber suggest that a long-ago tsunami inundated what is now northern Japan, researchers...

What gene makes orange cats orange? Scientists figured it out

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s...

Cryopreservation is not sci-fi. It may save plants from extinction

Early one morning in 1985, a pair of researchers trekked into a spit of Colombian rainforest surrounded...
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