News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Cancer treatments may get a boost from mRNA COVID vaccines

    Cancer patients who got an mRNA COVID vaccine within a few months of their immunotherapy lived longer than those who did not, health records show.

    By Meghan Rosen
  2. Paleontology

    Nanotyrannus was not a teenaged T. rex

    A new Nanotyrannus fossil suggests the diminutive dino lived alongside T. rex in the late Cretaceous Period.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  3. Plants

    This flower smells like injured ants — and flies can’t resist it

    A type of Japanese dogbane releases a scent identical to wounded ants’ distress signal, drawing in scavenging flies that unwittingly pollinate it.

    By Rohini Subrahmanyam
  4. Astronomy

    Some planets might home brew their own water

    Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.