We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
In a study of 6.5 million children in Brazil, higher temperatures were associated with worse nutrition outcomes, especially in vulnerable groups.
Pacific pocket mice are geographically isolated, but the species may retain the genetic diversity needed to adapt to climate change.
Climate change could be forcing gray whales to seek food in San Francisco Bay, where vessel strikes may be driving rising deaths.
Conservationists now list the penguins and seals as “Endangered.” Climate change in Antarctica has led to plunging populations.
The ocean plastic that washes up on Hawaii’s beaches is recycled into asphalt to pave roads. The roads are then tested for microplastic pollution.
The tiny seismic signals of rainwater moving through the ground show how heavy tilling damage soil.
Ryan Gosling is on a mission to save the sun — and Earth — from star-killing microbes. Science News dissects the science behind the sci-fi movie.
Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.
Climate change is affecting microbes, and that has implications for all life on Earth.
