Category: Science

Liver scarring can pave the way to cancer down the line. A new blood test in development might help doctors spot it.

Compressed air bids bye-bye to invasive sun corals in Brazil. The blasts obliterated soft tissue and fragments couldn’t regenerate.

Journalist Kevin Hartnett chronicles how code-checking tools and AI are being used to tackle difficult math problems.

More than 70% of the state is under “extreme” to “exceptional” drought conditions, and other parts of the U.S. Southeast are similarly affected. But why

A new study of a Neanderthal toddler reveals that our closest evolutionary relatives’ growth patterns differed from those of modern humans.

An alarming study claims the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation is weakening more than believed previously. But experts say its findings are far from the final

It’s been 40 years since animal advocates founded a sanctuary for farm animals in New York and California, and they say April 17 is their

A recent satellite photo captured a gleaming halo of phytoplankton encircling the remote Chatham Islands. The stunning sight is the result of a hidden underwater

In a study of 6.5 million children in Brazil, higher temperatures were associated with worse nutrition outcomes, especially in vulnerable groups.

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies over the Mojave Desert in California on April 14, 2026.

With half a beak, Bruce has developed an innovative fighting style that has won the kea top status in his flock, videos and documented interactions

You’re the earliest known life form. There’s no food around right now. It would be great to go somewhere else. But you’re stuck. Really stuck.

“We women are the land guardians and keepers,” says Theonila Roka Matbob of Papua New Guinea, recognized for her efforts to repair the environmental and

A dark patch in Mars’ Utopia Planitia region has grown significantly since it was first photographed in 1976. Scientists have a loose understanding of what