Mega El Niños triggered the world’s worst mass extinction
A flurry of intense and wild swings in climate conditions may have fueled the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history. […]
Even as vaccines for mpox reach Africa, questions remain about the virus
When the virus that causes mpox jumped onto the international stage in 2022, countries around the world, including the United
Some bacteria in your mouth can divide into as many as 14 cells at once
Among the more than 500 species of bacteria that thrive in the human mouth, one seems to play by its
Earth’s ancient ‘greenhouse’ conditions were hotter than thought
Over the last 485 million years, Earth has been both a lot colder and a lot hotter than once thought.
A biogeochemist is tracking the movements of toxic mercury pollution
One of the world’s richest biodiversity hot spots is Peru’s Madre de Dios, a region of the Amazon nestled at
A cell biologist is investigating the balance of brain flexibility, stability
One of the most remarkable things about the human brain is that it changes. A lot. This ability to reinvent
How a dying star is similar to a lava lamp
For the first time, astronomers have watched gas boil and bubble on the surface of a distant star. Scientists observed
How to spot tiny black holes that might pass through the solar system
Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom could be careening through the solar system unnoticed. But their days
This researcher studies how misinformation seeps into science and politics
TV stars and terrorists may appear to have little in common. But after watching YouTube videos by members of a
A neutrino mass mismatch could shake cosmology’s foundations
As the youthful universe congealed under the pull of gravity, matter knotted itself into galaxies, galaxy clusters and filaments, weaving