How redefining one word strips the Endangered Species Act’s ability to protect vital habitat
It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to…
The Sun ejects roughly a billion tons of charged plasma in a single coronal mass ejection — and it can cross 150 million kilometers to Earth in under 18 hours
A coronal mass ejection is the Sun throwing a piece of itself at the rest of the solar…
During Aging, Cells Develop a Preference for Short Genes
Cells transcribe active genes into messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules, using a crucial complex known as RNA polymerase II.…
Wildfires kill long after the flames have gone | Wildfires
The wildfires sweeping across Europe are damaging precious habitats, destroying property and taking people’s lives (Fast-spreading wildfire kills…
A red dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1, just 40 light-years from Earth, hosts seven Earth-sized planets — including three orbiting in the narrow zone where liquid water could potentially survive
TRAPPIST-1 is not impressive by the usual standards of stargazing. It is too faint to see with the…
Experts warn of ways screwworm could spread in the US and new difficulties in keeping it at bay | US news
When conservationists set up cameras in remote regions of Central American forests, they wanted to monitor illegal cattle…
Why space games still struggle with the scale of the universe
Space is incomprehensibly vast. So huge that the human mind struggles to even conceptualize it. The observable universe…
Taiwan takes gold at Physics Olympiad
By Rachel Lin and Esme Yeh / Staff reporters Taiwan tied for first with five golds at the…
‘The moon looked wrong’: Artemis II mission controller Chris White on taking historic lunar flyby photos from 250,000 miles away
On April 6, the four crewmembers of NASA‘s Artemis II mission swooped around the far side of the…
When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from Antarctica’s George VI Ice Shelf in January 2025, scientists aboard a nearby research vessel sailed to the exposed seafloor and found a thriving forest of giant sponges, octopuses, and sea spiders that had survived for centuries without sunlight
The most important part of the Antarctic iceberg story is not the iceberg. It is what appeared after…
An asteroid struck somewhere north of Australia 11 million years ago, scattering molten glass across a 900-kilometre ellipse in South Australia — yet scientists still cannot find the crater it left behind
The glass is small enough to sit in a museum drawer, but the event it points to was…
Beavers are emerging sooner in spring amid warmer weather
The most anticipated day of my year is “BDay” — the first day when beavers are spotted on…