Physician Uché Blackstock talks about her experience of the huge health disparities faced by Black Americans in her new book Legacy | Continue reading
Changing how dyslexia is diagnosed could help many more children learn to read | Continue reading
Changing how dyslexia is diagnosed could help many more children learn to read | Continue reading
Squirrels spread their fall bounty across several locations. But do they have a key to this treasure map? | Continue reading
The Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota has had nuclear missile silos on its land for decades. Now the U.S. government wants to take the old weapons out and replace them with new ones, and it’s unclear how many living there know about that. | Continue reading
People already suffering from climate change are beseeching world leaders to hold global temperature rise to 1.5°C, even if we surpass that threshold temporarily | Continue reading
From self-pollination to bogs, cranberries are a Thanksgiving classic with many fascinating botanical and genetic features | Continue reading
The best-yet map of active volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io hints at a hidden magma ocean—and more | Continue reading
Nuclear clocks could shatter timekeeping records. Now physicists are learning how to build one | Continue reading
Two orbiting stars are causing unsustainably large tides as they draw closer together | Continue reading
During the COVID pandemic, the U.S. initially saw a drop in births followed by a bump | Continue reading
The explosive secret behind Saturn’s rings, a Scandinavian arrow frozen for 4,000 years, the world's deepest-known virus, and much more in this month’s Quick Hits | Continue reading
Scientists have proposed a network of supercomputing centers that would focus on local climate impacts | Continue reading
Science in meter and verse | Continue reading
A light midday snooze boosts memory and other types of cognition—and your mood | Continue reading
The search for room-temperature superconductors has suffered scandalous setbacks, but physicists are optimistic about the field’s future | Continue reading
An instrument mounted to the International Space Station was built to map dust in the atmosphere, but it’s also giving scientists a wealth of information about methane and carbon dioxide emissions | Continue reading
The U.S. will see “fewer emergency room visits, fewer asthma attacks” and will save money if it cuts carbon emissions, a new Union of Concerned Scientists analysis says | Continue reading
The active ingredient in Wegovy and Ozempic reduced the risk of heart attacks and strokes in a large trial of people with cardiovascular disease who were considered overweight or had obesity, but the cost and side effects remain barriers | Continue reading
Migraine, stroke and epilepsy disproportionately affect members of the transgender community—but neurologists are often unprepared to respond | Continue reading
Early research presented at the leading brain conference suggests that the pandemic changed the brains of teenagers | Continue reading
Participants who smelled odors while they slept performed better on word-recall tests | Continue reading
A road trip through the communities shouldering the U.S.’s nuclear missile revival | Continue reading
The surprisingly subtle math behind the Powerball and Mega Millions | Continue reading
15 nuclear missiles deployed in underground concrete silos across the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota. It took displacement and flood to get them there. | Continue reading
Trees can outsmart animals such as squirrels and birds by synchronizing their seed production | Continue reading
Two unusual annual meteor showers come at the end of the year, and each can spark astonishing celestial fireworks | Continue reading
A newly approved CRISPR therapy could transform the treatment of sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia—but the technology is expensive | Continue reading
Hungarian-American biophysicist and inventor Mária Telkes illuminated the field of solar energy. She invented a solar oven, a solar desalination kit and, in the late 1940s, designed one of the first solar-heated houses | Continue reading
The two nations announced limited steps to address climate change. But even a modest agreement could have far-reaching effects | Continue reading
Shifting temperatures disrupt the cues animals rely on to navigate their environment | Continue reading
Charting the seafloor with deep-diving animals can help scientists predict glacial and ice-sheet-melting physics | Continue reading
Geneticists don’t know what most human genes do. A new research tool may help | Continue reading
The U.S. is ramping up construction of new “plutonium pits” for nuclear weapons | Continue reading
Engineers and paleontologists teamed up to reconstruct an ancestor of starfish from the Paleozoic era and figure out how it moved | Continue reading
Unions are good medicine, spurring vaccinations in their wider communities while overcoming pandemic politics | Continue reading
A generator equation can spit out many prime numbers, but it leaves important mathematical questions unanswered | Continue reading
Here's a look at how the brain uses its mental dictionary to remember and retrieve language | Continue reading
China and the U.S. agreed to new greenhouse gas reduction commitments ahead of upcoming climate talks, but the relationship between the world’s top two emitters remains “challenging” | Continue reading
From stray bullets to power companies, humans spark almost all of California’s wildfires | Continue reading
Media attention to Ivy League schools distracts from the much more important—and undersupported—public university system | Continue reading
These fallout maps show the toll of a potential nuclear attack on missile silos in the U.S. heartland | Continue reading
Most hospitals typically test people for drugs that drove overdoses 15 to 20 years ago. We need a national system for expanded testing to help patients get the treatment they need today | Continue reading
New research suggests that hitting the snooze button to squeeze in an extra five or 10 minutes of sleep may actually be good for you | Continue reading
An enormous magma intrusion under Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula is causing earthquake swarms and forcing evacuations | Continue reading
Scientists have developed an ultrasound device to detect aggressive breast cancer that may develop between screenings | Continue reading
The new U.S. National Climate Assessment details how climate change will alter nearly every aspect of American life—and how the U.S. can help avoid “potentially catastrophic outcomes” | Continue reading