Mars landing team 'awestruck' by photo of descending rover

Weather experts: Lack of planning caused cold catastrophe

A speed limit also applies in the quantum world

Direct cloning method CAPTUREs novel microbial natural products

Time-lapse reveals the hidden dance of roots

Depression, anxiety, loneliness are peaking in college students

New technology enables predictive design of engineered human cells

Researchers find evidence of protein folding at site of intracellular droplets

Spin Hall effect of light with near 100% efficiency

Study reveals energy sources supporting coral reef predators

Sounding rocket CLASP2 elucidates solar magnetic field

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U.S. Officially Rejoins Paris Climate Agreement

Conservation paradox: The pros and cons of recreational hunting

Sweet marine particles resist hungry bacteria

Global study of 48 cities finds nature sanitizes 41.7 million tons of human waste a year

Insight-HXMT gives insight into origin of fast radio bursts

Animal evolution—glimpses of ancient environments

Researchers decode a deep-sea-vent-endemic snail hologenome

Release of nutrients from lake-bottom sediments worsens Lake Erie's annual 'dead zone'

Animal evolution: glimpses of ancient environments

New snake species and genus discovered in Myanmar

Handheld DNA sequencers show promise for monitoring microbes during food production

Cold dust cores in the central zone of the Milky Way

Space Force sounds like a joke thanks to pop culture—that could be a problem for an important military branch

Dynamics of nanoparticles using a new isolated lymphatic vessel lumen perfusion system

The Coronavirus Is Here to Stay--Here's What That Means

The government failed Texans—so people on the internet stepped in

New research shows parents are major producers of child sexual abuse material

Astronomers publish map showing 25,000 supermassive black holes

Even Tiny Phytoplankton Have Microbiomes

Why do mass shootings spawn conspiracy theories?

COVID-19 has crippled the winter sports industry—but a digital revolution will help it recover

Mars rovers safe from lightning strikes, research finds

Physicists discover new route to active matter self-organisation

US officially back in Paris accord, vows climate action

Stromatolites—fossils of earliest life on Earth—may owe existence to viruses

Scientists make 3-D heart scan breakthrough for animals and humans

Spin Hall effect of light achieved with near 100% efficiency

New method converts methane in natural gas to methanol at room temperature

An evolutionary method for reprogramming proteases

Ultraviolet 'television' for animals helps us better understand them

A powerful, pocket-sized optical imager, no longer science fiction

Study reveals impact of evictions on people with mental health disorders

New-found molecular signature keeps key genes ready for action

Unique study of isolated bobcat population confirms accuracy of extinction model

California Republicans less likely to seek COVID vaccine, poll reports

How Will the Coronavirus Evolve?

Extending maser techniques to Floquet systems

New method converts methane in natural gas to methanol at room temperature

Decade-long study shows half of all rivers in the world heavily impacted by humans

Researchers observe stationary Hawking radiation in an analog black hole

Fierce winter storm in US seen tapering off

Why do we love koalas so much? Because they look like baby humans

Earth's magnetic field broke down 42,000 years ago and caused massive sudden climate change

Asthmatics at no higher risk getting or dying from COVID-19, assessment of studies consisting of 587,000 people shows

Farmers and scientists unite for pint-sized pygmies

Pet-inclusive housing will help tenants and landlords

Has Earth been visited by an alien spaceship? Harvard Professor Avi Loeb vs. everybody else

Bacterial magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications

New study contradicts pseudoscientific beliefs about the influence of the moon on agriculture

Cryptic sex: How female and unisexual animals reproduce without males

Seeing stable topology using instabilities

Tourism desperately wants a return to the 'old normal' but that would be a disaster

We could find extraterrestrial civilizations by their air pollution

What studying children's attitudes can tell us about gender‑based pay inequity

In step toward autonomous materials, researchers design patterns in self-propelling liquid crystals

Warming seas could wipe out Snake River chinook by 2060, scientists predict

Massive Power Failure Could Finally Cause Texas to Connect with the Nation's Power Grids

Ozone pollution levels dropped early in pandemic

Laser-based technique to elucidate the mysteries of exosomes

Paper reconciles two branches of evolutionary science into one framework

Citing levels of uncertainty decreases public faith in science

Arctic and tropical Pacific synergistic effects cause extremely cold winter in China

The future of electronics is stretchy

Origin of life: Did Darwinian evolution begin before life itself?

Researchers developing drugs to enable longer space missions

Potassium nucleus loses some of its magic

'Perseverance will get you anywhere': After 300-million-mile journey, NASA's Mars rover shares Twitter updates

Fuel for earliest life forms: Organic molecules found in 3.5 billion-year-old rocks

CSI Solid-State: The fingerprints of quantum effects

Spina bifida can be caused by uninherited genetic mutations

Saharan dust expected to hit Europe again this weekend

Dozens of whales die stranded on Indonesian beach

A first-of-its-kind geoengineering experiment is about to take its first step

China considers new actions to lift flagging birthrate

Experts Answer the Biggest COVID Vaccine Questions

COVID-19: Future targets for treatments rapidly identified with new computer simulations

How to calculate the social cost of carbon? Researchers offer roadmap in new analysis

Quartz crystals in the stomach of fossil bird complicates the mystery of its diet

Touchdown: NASA's Perseverance rover ready to search for life on Mars

India's glacier disaster highlights Himalayan dangers

Indonesia volcano erupts, spews red-hot lava

What happens when consumers pick their own prices?

Boys who play video games have lower depression risk