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Atom & Cosmos
Astrobiology

News in Brief | Astrobiology

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will look for ancient life in a former river delta

By Lisa Grossman | 3:36pm, November 19, 2018

Astronomy

News | Astronomy

Bennu and Ryugu look like spinning tops and scientists want to know why

By Jennifer Leman | 2:04pm, December 18, 2018

Cosmology

News | Cosmology

Voyager 2 spacecraft enters interstellar space

By Lisa Grossman | 12:57pm, December 10, 2018

Exoplanets

News | Exoplanets

Hints of Oort clouds around other stars may lurk in the universe’s first light

By Lisa Grossman | 6:00am, November 09, 2018

Particle Physics

Year in Review | Particle Physics

Neutrino discovery launched a new type of astronomy

By Emily Conover | 8:29am, December 17, 2018

Planetary Science

News | Planetary Science

New Horizons gears up for its close encounter with Ultima Thule

By Lisa Grossman | 10:00am, December 18, 2018
Body & Brain
Biomedicine

News | Biomedicine

Tumor ‘organoids’ may speed cancer treatment

By Esther Landhuis | 12:00pm, December 17, 2018

Cancer

News | Cancer

Discovery of how to prod a patient’s immune system to fight cancer wins a Nobel

By Tina Hesman Saey | 2:30pm, October 01, 2018

Clinical Trials

News | Clinical Trials

A potent fish oil drug may protect high-risk patients against heart attacks

By Aimee Cunningham | 3:00pm, November 10, 2018

Health

Year in Review | Health

Humans wiped out mosquitoes (in one small lab test)

By Susan Milius | 8:26am, December 17, 2018

Human Development

News | Human Development

Pregnant women’s use of opioids is on the rise

By Leah Rosenbaum | 4:00pm, August 09, 2018

Mental Health

Feature | Mental Health

Virtual reality therapy has real-life benefits for some mental disorders

By Maria Temming | 8:24am, November 01, 2018

Neuroscience

Year in Review | Neuroscience

Zapping the spinal cord helped paralyzed people learn to move again

By Laurel Hamers | 8:19am, December 17, 2018

Nutrition

News | Nutrition

Coffee or tea? Your preference may be written in your DNA

By Tina Hesman Saey | 9:00am, November 15, 2018
Earth & Environment
Agriculture

50 Years Ago | Agriculture

50 years ago, screwworm flies inspired a new approach to insect control

By Kyle Plantz | 7:00am, November 23, 2018

Climate

Year in Review | Climate

Half a degree stole the climate spotlight in 2018

By Carolyn Gramling | 8:36am, December 17, 2018

Earth

Science Visualized | Earth

Erosion has erased most of Earth’s impact craters. Here are the survivors

By Emily DeMarco | 6:00am, December 18, 2018

Ecosystems

Feature | Ecosystems

Beavers are engineering a new Alaskan tundra

By Sid Perkins | 9:00am, November 28, 2018

Oceans

Rethink | Oceans

Nearly 200 Great Barrier Reef coral species also live in the deep sea

By Cassie Martin | 7:05pm, December 11, 2018

Pollution

Feature | Pollution

Engineers are plugging holes in drinking water treatment

By Laurel Hamers | 6:00am, November 25, 2018

Sustainability

News | Sustainability

Hybrid rice engineered with CRISPR can clone its seeds

By Susan Milius | 3:52pm, December 12, 2018

Toxicology

News | Toxicology

An acid found in soil may make a disease killing deer less infectious

By Jennifer Leman | 6:00am, November 30, 2018

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