Science

Though numbers are still small, clinical cases of Candida auris in the jumped 95 percent from 2020 to 2021, a CDC survey finds....

The discovery of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may have come despite its discoverer, Christiaan Huygens, needing eyeglasses....

An ancient animal called Essexella may have been a type of burrowing sea anemone, a new study proposes....

Drenching atmospheric rivers are slamming the U.S. West Coast, bringing needed water but dangerous flooding. Here's how scientists study these storms....

Experiments hint that in the future, we might be able to grow the staple food in the soils of the Red Planet....

An analysis of oceanic rocks hinted that ocean water drains into Earth's mantle. How much makes it back into the ocean remains unclear....

Seismic waves suggest that Earth has a hidden heart, a distinct region within the solid part of the planet's core....

The small electric charge generated by a moving insect is enough to affect the trajectory of a parasitic nematode's leap so it lands right on its host....

New U.S. data show that as maternal deaths rise, a large gap between the maternal mortality rate of Black women compared with white women persists....

A new look at old data reveals an eruption on Venus in the 1990s that was probably similar to Hawaii's Kilauea eruption in 2018....

Deeply buried remnants of a hypothetical planet that slammed into Earth 4.5 billion years ago might have set subduction into motion....

Unlike other known methane seeps, Jac Scar is slightly warmer than the surrounding water and is a home for both cold-loving and heat-loving organisms....

Racial labels don't explain biological and genetic diversity but do cause stigma. They belong "in the dustbin of history," a panel of experts says....

Taking a cue from a classic fairy tale, scientists propose a way for rovers to send back data from treacherous terrain....

Scientists used optogenetics to raise the heartbeat of a mouse, making it anxious. The finding could offer a new angle for studying anxiety disorders....

Author James Riordon discusses his new book, why neutrinos are so important and how physicists are on the verge of making big discoveries about them....

By carrying a log with the aid of head straps called tumplines, the duo demoed how people may have hauled timbers to Chaco about 1,000 years ago....

Young honeybees can't perfect waggling on their own after all. Without older sisters to practice with, youngsters fail to nail distances....

A study of Thailand macaques raises questions about whether some Stone Age cutting tools were products of planning or chance....

Nearly half of U.S. women have dense breasts. A new FDA rule makes notification of breast density national. Here's the scoop on why....

For good measure Cutting carbon dioxide emissions to curb climate change and reach net-zero is possible but not easy, Alexandra Witze reported in "The road to net-zero" (SN: 1/28/23, p. 22). A report by Princeton University's Net-Zero America ...

Editor in chief Nancy Shute talks about smart animals, from tool-using cockatoos to "self-aware" fish....

A bright streak stretching away from a remote galaxy might be the light from stolen gas and new stars caught in the wake of an escaping black hole....

Researchers have built a nerve cell "connectivity map" of a larval fruit fly brain. It's the most complex whole brain wiring diagram yet made....

Some farmers in the western United States are forgoing irrigation, which can save on water and produce more flavorful fruits and vegetables....

Scientists detail the chain of chemical reactions that occur when wildfire smoke enters the stratosphere....

Newly described fossils of Protomelission gatehousei suggest that the species, once thought to be the oldest example of bryozoans, is actually a type of colony-forming algae....

Dark voids riddle the galaxies' faces, highlighting previously invisible details about how new stars alter their locales....

It's big, if true: transmitting electricity with no resistance at room temperature and moderate pressure. But controversy dogs the team making the claim....

Microbes behind bacterial meningitis hijack pain-sensing nerve cells in the brain's outer layers, disabling a key immune response, a mouse study shows....

Ancient DNA unveils two regional populations that lived in what is now Europe and made similar tools but met different fates....

Lemon nanoparticles slowed formation of kidney stones in rats. If the sacs work the same way in people, they could help prevent the painful crystals....

Pollen stuck to fossils of earwig-like Tillyardembia pushes back the earliest record of potential insect pollinators by about 120 million years....

When juveniles snap their claws shut to create imploding bubbles, they create the fastest accelerating underwater movements of any reusable body part....

Relatively long-lived lightning strikes are the most likely to spark wildfires and may become more common as the climate warms....

Myopia, or nearsightedness, is a growing global health threat. But a Hong Kong study found that medicated eye drops may delay its onset in children....

During the transition to motherhood, there's more going on than "momnesia," neuroscientists argue. The brain changes to prep for the job of caregiving...

The impressionist painting style can be partly explained by the reality of rising air pollution from the industrial revolution, an analysis finds....

The therapy has helped veterans struggling with mental illness imagine their future selves....

If used right after a heart attack, this intravenously delivered biomaterial can preserve cardiac function. It could also treat traumatic brain injury....

In 1973, a researcher calculated that it could take millions of years to contact aliens. But that hasn't stopped scientists from trying....

A chemical reaction with the body's own sugars turned a gel cocktail into a conducting material inside zebrafish brains, hearts and tail fins....

Glowing radioactive debris from massive stars indicates our galaxy mints 10 to 20 new stars a year — double to quadruple the standard number....

An experiment with a single electron, trapped for months on end, produced one of the most precise tests yet of the standard model of particle physics....

Small stone points found in a French rock-shelter could have felled prey only as tips of arrows shot from bows, scientists say....

The galaxies formed in the universe's first 700 million years and may be up to 100 times more massive than predicted....

A larger array of quantum bits outperformed a smaller one in tests performed by Google researchers, suggesting quantum computers could be scaled up....

As fungi break down defensive chemicals in trees, some byproducts act as signals to bark beetle pests, telling them which trees are most vulnerable....

Researchers disagree on how to define burnout, or if the phenomenon is really another name for depression. Helping people cope at work still matters....

Fungi like those in the post-apocalyptic TV show are real. But humans' body temperature and brain chemistry may protect us from zombifying fungi....