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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…

There’s a new contender for the universe’s earliest first-generation stars. A bright clump seen about 450 million years after the…

Genes for immunity forged in a germ-filled past are often blamed for making our bodies overreact to harmless triggers such…

If you were to imagine a waterfall, a misty cascade into an azure pool surrounded by towering trees might come…

A vast, frozen fog of interstellar ice has been charted across expanses of the Milky Way, poised to supply water…