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Two minor meteor showers — the Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids — peak overnight on July 29-30, making it a great night for stargazing.
A controversial new paper questions whether the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a potentially dangerous alien probe, similar to claims made about ‘Oumuamua. But experts have
The most-detailed look yet at how we perspire reveals that beads of sweat are out, puddling is in.
A Neanderthal trackway discovered in Portugal shows how an adult male and two children hunted for food 78,000 years ago.
The tiny ‘backward’ brain of an ancient sea creature hints that spider ancestors might have gotten their start in the ocean.
An experimental birth control pill for males works by blocking sperm production, and it just passed its first safety test in humans.
Banning screens is often not an option. So Science News spoke with experts studying screen use and addiction in teens to help families navigate this
Dropping vaccination rates and changes in U.S. vaccine policy have public health experts concerned that annual measles outbreaks could become more frequent.
A study analyzed decades of births and found that larger families showed a distinct tendency toward all girls or all boys, rather than a mix.
Earth doesn’t rotate exactly on schedule. Scientists believe that today is going to be about a millisecond short of a typical 24-hour day.
Earlier this year, the White House proposed a nearly 24% cut to NASA’s 2026 fiscal year budget — the largest in the agency’s history. The
Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young trees, and it is
Peatlands cover just a fraction of Earth’s surface, but store huge amounts of carbon. In the Peruvian Amazon, one of these swamps has switched to
A new test called PAC-MANN is designed to detect signs of pancreatic cancer in blood. It’s still in development, but the hope is that it
