A surge in opioid-exposed newborns has U.S. doctors revamping treatments and focusing on families.
Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, a citizen science project, lets space enthusiasts search for undiscovered objects in the sky, including a hypothesized planet at the far reaches of the solar system.
Simulations of HAT-P 7b’s magnetic field give clues to why the exoplanet’s winds blow both east and west.
Small ice particles called ice-lollies, because of their lollipop-like appearance, can form in clouds.
Today’s opioids stop pain — but they’re also dangerous. Scientists are hunting for replacements.
EEG recordings can help indicate whether a newborn baby is in pain, a preliminary study suggests.
A new deepwater laser tool measures the carbon-filtering power of snot nets created by little-known sea animals called giant larvaceans.
Human noise stretches into the wilderness.
As an alternative to genetically modified mosquitoes, Florida skeeter police are testing one of two strategies that use bacteria to meddle with insect sex lives.
Molecular oxygen detected around comet 67P may not be a relic of the solar system’s birth. Instead, it may be generated by interactions of water, the solar wind and the comet’s surface.
South African species Homo naledi is much younger than previously thought.
A fossil embryo known as Baby Louie has been identified as a new species of dinosaur called Beibeilong sinensis.
An experimental "exercise in a pill" increases running endurance in mice before they step foot on a treadmill.
Source tumors may already contain the mutations that drive aggressive cancer spread.
A new exoskeleton helps people prone to falling stay on their feet.
A 36 million-year-old whale fossil bridges the gap between ancient toothy predators and modern filter-feeding baleen whales.
Compared with Neptune, HAT-P-26b’s atmosphere has few heavy elements, suggesting it formed differently than the ice giants in Earth’s solar system.
Antimatter in cosmic rays could be a sign of dark matter.
Physicists demonstrate the possibility of a “naked” singularity in curved space.
People can see and hear meteors simultaneously because of radio waves produced by the descending space rocks.
Scientists have worried about antibiotic resistance for decades.
At first, ophthalmologist Xu Wang thought her experiment had failed. But instead, she revealed a new role for the breast cancer drug tamoxifen — protection from eye injury.