News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Pollution mucks up the lungs’ immune defenses over time

    A study of immune tissue in the lungs reports that particulate matter buildup from air pollution may impair respiratory immunity in older adults.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  2. Animals

    These devices use an electric field to scare sharks from fishing hooks

    SharkGuard gadgets work by harnessing sharks’ ability to detect electric fields. That could save the animals’ lives, a study suggests.

    By Darren Incorvaia
  3. Health & Medicine

    Got a weird COVID-19 symptom? You’re not alone

    From head to COVID toe, doctors have seen a bevy of bizarre cases.

    By Meghan Rosen
  4. Anthropology

    Carvings on Australia’s boab trees reveal a generation’s lost history

    Archaeologists and an Aboriginal family are working together to rediscover a First Nations group’s lost connections to the land.