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Planetary Science

NASA’s Perseverance rover found a new potential setting for Martian life

Now atop Jezero Crater, the robotic explorer found quartz indicative of habitable environments and possibly the oldest rocks yet seen in the solar system.

By Nikk Ogasa7 hours ago

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Life

The ‘Blob,’ an unprecedented marine heat wave, killed 4 million seabirds

By Jake Buehler11 hours ago

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Genetics

Neandertal genes in people today came from hook-ups around 47,000 years ago

By McKenzie Prillaman11 hours ago

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Health & Medicine

These are the viruses that defined 2024

By Erin Garcia de Jesús14 hours ago

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Earth

Earth’s inner core may be changing shape

By Nikk Ogasa16 hours ago

A tsunami approaches people on a coastline in Malaysia on December 26, 2004.

Earth

The 2004 tsunami killed hundreds of thousands. Are we better prepared now?

By Carolyn GramlingDecember 11, 2024

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Health & Medicine

The benefits of Ozempic and its kin may extend far beyond weight loss

By Meghan RosenDecember 11, 2024

Spotlight on Health

A boy in India pours water over his head.

Climate change made 2024 the hottest year on record. The heat was deadly

Heat waves fueled by climate change killed scores of people and upended daily life. Here are some of those stories.

By Carolyn GramlingDecember 5, 2024
How the weight loss drug tirzepatide is also helping heart failure patients
Proposed time limits on anesthesia may have jeopardized patient safety

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November 30, 2024 Vol. 206 No. 9

From the Archives

DDT in Women’s Milk

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Space missions spanned the solar system in 2024

Humankind accomplished new feats in space this year, including scooping up some of the moon’s farside and launching a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa.

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Here’s how long it would take 100 worms to eat the plastic in one face mask

A small reddish-orange wolf stretches its neck to lick nectar from the bottom of a cone-shaped flower. The wolf is standing in a field of the flowers.

Ethiopian wolves are the first large carnivores found to slurp nectar

The former Conger ice shelf is shown as a white mass on Earth's face from space.

An unexpected ice collapse hints at worrying changes on the Antarctic coast

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Electronic ‘tattoos’ offer an alternative to electrodes for brain monitoring

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Life

Trees are failing to adapt to climate change. Losing fungi partners may be why

By Rebecca DzombakDecember 4, 2024
Nature’s first fiber optics could light the way to internet innovation

By Elie DolginNovember 19, 2024
Backyard explorers discovered 15 new examples of glowing life

By Meghan RosenOctober 31, 2024

Humans

Dietary evidence bolsters Clovis hunters’ reputation as mammoth killers

By Anna GibbsDecember 4, 2024
A phone app could help people have lucid dreams

By Maria TemmingNovember 4, 2024
World record speeds for two Olympics events have fallen over time. We can go faster

By Erin Garcia de JesúsJuly 12, 2024

Climate

From electric cars to wildfires, how Trump may affect climate actions

By Carolyn GramlingNovember 25, 2024
Satellite space junk might wreak havoc on the stratosphere

By Carolyn GramlingNovember 22, 2024
Climate change has amped up hurricane wind speeds by 29 kph on average

By Nikk OgasaNovember 20, 2024

Astronomy

Astronomers see the astrosphere of a sunlike star for the first time

By Lisa GrossmanDecember 6, 2024
This is the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy

By Sophie HartleyNovember 21, 2024
A cosmic census triples the known number of black holes in dwarf galaxies

By Lisa GrossmanNovember 8, 2024

Physics

Notre Dame is reopening. What does that mean for its acoustics?

By Emily ConoverDecember 6, 2024
Radioactive beams give a real-time view of cancer treatment in mice

By Emily ConoverOctober 11, 2024
Thunderstorms churn up a ‘boiling pot’ of gamma rays

By Emily ConoverOctober 2, 2024

Health & Medicine

U.S. hospitals continue to shut down labor and delivery services

By Aimee CunninghamDecember 11, 2024
Some countries have eliminated malaria, but cases are growing elsewhere

By Tina Hesman SaeyDecember 11, 2024
During an allergic response, some immune cells digest others

By Caroline HemphillDecember 10, 2024

Earth

What leads rivers to suddenly change course?

By Nikk OgasaOctober 10, 2024
Reactive dust from Great Salt Lake may have health consequences

By Skyler WareSeptember 26, 2024
How earthquakes build beefy gold nuggets

By Nikk OgasaSeptember 9, 2024

Science & Society

These are Science News’ favorite books of 2024

By Science News StaffDecember 10, 2024
A new biography of Benjamin Franklin puts science at the forefront

By Emily ConoverNovember 29, 2024
This ‘hidden figure’ of entomology fought for civil rights

By Susan MiliusNovember 27, 2024