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A small solar system denizen farther from the sun than Pluto may be shrouded in a thin atmosphere. If confirmed,…

Like ancient subway tracks buried deep underneath modern lines, a previously unknown transport system ferries materials around the brain. But…

Pick an ailment — joint pain, brain fog, insomnia — and there’s probably a peptide therapy promising to treat it.…

America is turning the big 250 this year. To celebrate, the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., has a new…

A newly discovered organelle may hold the key to how much methane cattle burp out. The organelle doesn’t belong to…

In some of medicine’s toughest cases, the hardest part isn’t choosing the right diagnosis. It’s thinking of it at all.…

Seismic data have captured the tense quiet of the COVID-19 lockdowns and the thunderous excitement of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.…

Meghan Rosen is a senior writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She earned a Ph.D. in…

For more than 100,000 years, a Greek volcano lay silent. But deep underground, it was still growing. Tiny zircon crystals…

The rings around Uranus have mystified astronomers for almost half a century. Now, thanks to a combination of ground- and…

Filtering a protein out of a pregnant person’s blood may help ease a dangerous complication of pregnancy. In a study…

A memorable shot of espresso is less about roast and more about percolation — and now there is an equation…