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Features
Feature
The number of planets in the habitable zone of dim red suns, known as M dwarfs, is growing. They’re a good place to look for life.
Feature
Certain bacteria will destroy other bacteria without harming humans. They may be an answer to antibiotic-resistant infections.
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Editor's Note
You don’t need a novel or a movie to escape into what feels like another reality. Just flip through the pages of Science News. The stories will take you to other worlds, as well as inner, hidden ones.
Features
Certain bacteria will destroy other bacteria without harming humans. They may be an answer to antibiotic-resistant infections.
The number of planets in the habitable zone of dim red suns, known as M dwarfs, is growing. They’re a good place to look for life.
News
Follow-up observations of TRAPPIST-1 and its seven planets reveals details about the outermost one.
Two black holes stirred up the third set of gravitational waves ever detected.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent back unexpected details about Jupiter, giving scientists their first intimate look at the giant planet.
The 2004 Indonesian quake was surprisingly strong because of dried-out, brittle minerals far below.
Sperm freeze-dried and sent into space for months of exposure to high levels of solar radiation later produced healthy baby mice.
Flamingos’ built-in tricks for balance might have a thing or two to teach standing robots or prosthesis makers someday.
With new analyses of Graecopithecus fossils from Greece and Bulgaria, researchers argue for possible hominid origins in Europe, not Africa.
Zika spread undetected into Brazil and Florida, a genetic study suggests.
The wavelike behavior of quantum particles could be harnessed to move atoms.
Sterile mice that received transplanted egg-making stem cells were able to have healthy babies.
During a heat wave, trees and shrubs can sharply raise ozone levels, a new study shows.
Weaning in orangutans has been tricky to see in the wild, so researchers turned to dental tests to reveal long nursing period.
Crossing wild Hawaiian C. elegans with the familiar lab strain reveals genes that benefit themselves by making mother worms poison offspring who haven’t inherited the right stuff.
A study of nearly 80,000 people turns up 40 genes that may have a role in making brains smarter.
Notebook
A new camera’s record-breaking speed offers researchers a window into never-before-seen phenomena, such as combustion reactions.
The most complete skeleton of an ankylosaur shows an armored, club-tailed dinosaur with a head like a Ghostbusters demon.
Health care quality and availability improved worldwide from 1990 to 2015, but the gap between countries with the lowest and highest levels of care widened.
Researchers discovered how to use light to treat babies with jaundice 50 years ago. But questions remain about the technique’s effectiveness in some cases.
Ladybug wings could lead to new foldable technologies.
Reviews & Previews
CuriosityStream, an online streaming service, offers viewers a plethora of science documentaries, including originals from Stephen Hawking and David Attenborough.
Letters to the Editor
Warming lakes, windmills for the Arctic, mosquito control and more in reader feedback.
Science Visualized
Once every 53 days, NASA’s Juno spacecraft zooms past Jupiter’s cloud tops. A new sequence of images reveals the encounter from Juno’s viewpoint.