Many of the Science News staff’s favorite books of the year challenge how we understand the world, from rethinking human history to reimagining the toilet.…
An elusive form of matter called a quantum spin liquid isn’t a liquid, and it doesn’t spin — but it sure is quantum. Predicted nearly…
From teeny hummingbirds to giant whooping cranes, roughly half of the world’s more than 10,000 bird species migrate. Longer wings and beefed-up flying muscles often…
A corona variant and human innovation are impacting investing and business. Omicron Rebound The stock market is like a boxer who keeps taking punches but…
Hopes for an easy pill that could combat COVID-19 before people land in the hospital have dimmed a bit. New data about an antiviral pill…
Kanu Caplash was lying on a futon in a medical center in Connecticut, wearing an eye mask and listening to music. But his mind was…
Tiny “living machines” made of frog cells can replicate themselves, making copies that can then go on to do the same. This newly described form…
Apparent cure for rabies — Science News, December 4, 1971 The painful and always fatal virus disease rabies may at last be licked — not…
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An individual from an enigmatic hominid species strode across a field of wet, volcanic ash in what is now East Africa around 3.66 million years…