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5,105 results for: seek

  1. Math

    In science, popularity breeds unreliability

    Popularity can mean unreliability both in science news coverage and within research itself.

    By Tom Siegfried
  2. Ecosystems

    Bluebird moms inadvertently fuel wars between species

    Extra hormones delivered to eggs holding sons in tough times end up driving one bluebird species to chase off another

    By Susan Milius
  3. Science & Society

    Deflategate favored foul play over science

    Science didn’t get center stage in the rulings on whether the New England Patriots underinflated footballs during championship game against the Indianapolis Colts.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  4. Climate

    Melting ice forces walrus detour

    Warming temperatures and shrinking summer ice cover have forced the animals to seek solid ground during feeding season.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  5. Animals

    Seeking the loneliest whale

    An enigmatic whale roams the North Pacific, and next year Bruce Mate will lead a monthlong expedition to find it.

    By Sid Perkins
  6. Neuroscience

    White House gives progress report on BRAIN Initiative

    More pieces of President Obama’s ambitious BRAIN Initiative announced April 2013 have fallen into place.

    By Science News Staff
  7. Psychology

    Scientists of a feather flock together

    When it comes to major scientific issues such as global warming and GMOs, scientists and the public don’t see eye to eye. It might be because socially, they don’t see each other at all.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  8. Ecosystems

    ‘Earth: A New Wild’ puts people in the picture

    PBS nature series ‘Earth: A New Wild’ shows humans living with, and not off, their environments

    By Bethany Brookshire
  9. Cosmology

    Dust erases evidence for gravity wave detection

    The claimed detection of primordial gravitational waves does not hold up after taking into account galactic dust, a new analysis concludes.

    By Andrew Grant
  10. Health & Medicine

    U.S. measles tally for 2015 now at 121 cases

    The 2014–2015 measles outbreak in the United States has now reached people in 17 states and the District of Columbia.

    By Nathan Seppa
  11. Planetary Science

    Mystery patch found floating on Titan’s seas

    Changes on the surface of a methane lake on one of Saturn’s moons may signal the onset of summer there.

    By Science News Staff
  12. Health & Medicine

    Six ways to beat chronic stress

    Counseling, mindfulness training and purposeful social contact may counteract the effects of chronic stress.

    By Nathan Seppa