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Gamma rays flared as this lightning bolt formed

The collision of two lightning-bolts-in-the-making spawned an exceedingly brief but extremely energetic flash of gamma rays....

Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate

Cuts made by the Trump administration are threatening the function of a tiny but crucial office within...

A new AI-based weather tool surpasses current forecasts

Weather forecasting is getting cheaper and more accurate. An AI model named Aurora used machine learning to...

Scientists used a levitating magnet to hunt for dark matter

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

New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station

It is microscopic and rod-shaped, can create spores, and may have evolved to survive hundreds of miles...

FDA significantly limits access to COVID-19 vaccines

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

Biden’s prostate cancer is incurable, but it is treatable

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

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...
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