NASA's Perseverance drives on Mars' terrain for first time

Study shows cactus pear as drought-tolerant crop for sustainable fuel and food

Cactus pear as drought-tolerant crop for sustainable fuel and food

Blind trust in social media cements conspiracy beliefs

Coastal changes worsen nuisance flooding on many US shorelines, study finds

Coronavirus News Roundup: February 27–March 5

Comet Catalina suggests comets delivered carbon to rocky planets

New potential for functional recovery after spinal cord injury

Surprise: Societal Scholars Could Drive Climate Policy

Going forth with standardized tests may cause more problems than it solves

Food security: Irradiation and essential oil vapors for cereal treatment

'I want to ride my bicycle!' People set to change mobility choices post-lockdown

Tantalizing signs of phase-change 'turbulence' in RHIC collisions

Making sense of commotion under the ocean to locate tremors near deep-sea faults

Ecosystem services: Species are our livelihoods

Engineering marvel: Sixth mirror cast for Giant Magellan Telescope

Life's rich pattern: Researchers use sound to shape the future of printing

Eight ways chemical pollutants harm the body

What can stream quality tell us about quality of life?

Sports information on social networks leaves out women, disabled and minority disciplines

Species traded legally through Hong Kong with inadequate traceability

Study finds no link between gender and physics course performance

Using a radical to break C-F bonds one at a time

Instrument at BESSY II shows how light activates molybdenum disulfide layers to become catalysts

New tool finds and fingerprints previously undetected PFAS compounds in watersheds on Cape Cod

Controlling adhesions in the abdomen

Light in concert with force reveals how materials become harder when illuminated

Compression or strain—the material always expands

Taking 2-D materials for a spin

New study suggests humans evolved to run on less water than our closest primate relatives

'Fungal ghosts' protect skin, fabric from toxins, radiation

Study shows that the GW190521 event could be explained by primordial black holes

Earth's position and orbit spurred ancient marine life extinction

'Falling insect' season length impacts river ecosystems

BCAS3-C16orf70 complex is a new actor on the mammalian autophagic machinery

The negative effects of powerful political connections

How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you

How would digital COVID vaccine passports work? And what's stopping people from faking them?

How to build support for ambitious climate action in 4 steps

Spacewalking astronauts tackle more solar panel advance work

Oocyte growth relies on physical phenomena that drive smaller cells to dump their contents into a larger cell

Greenland ice loss may have begun as early as the mid-'80s

This tiny echidna moves 7 tons of soil a year, helping tackle climate change

Scanning tunneling microscopy reveals the origins of stable skyrmion lattices

Trump's Policy Failures Have Exacted a Heavy Toll on Public Health

Calculus instruction methods reveal mechanisms that discourage BIPOC participation in STEM

Planet-hunting eye of Plato

Study finds campus housing can mirror racial denotations of larger society

Rare earth unlocks copper, gold and silver secrets

Southwest Iceland is shaking – and may be about to erupt

New copolymer binder to extend the life of lithium ion batteries

Particle detector at Fermilab plays crucial role in Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

Improved understanding of plasma source for synthesis of carbon nanotubes

Mining water and metal from the moon at the same time

One starfish to rule them all

Financial crashes, pandemics, Texas snow: How math could predict 'black swan' events

When Facebook, Twitter flag posts as 'unverified,' readers listen

Walking pace among cancer survivors may be important for survival

Better warnings needed about health impacts of long-range wildfire smoke

Frog cakes and Fruchocs: Famous local foods attract valuable tourist dollars

Professor seeks to help adults better communicate with children

A mass exodus from California? Not exactly, says new study

The story of polar aurora just got much bigger: Unknown magnetospheric mechanisms revealed

How do forests function in persistent organic pollutant cycling?

Beauty is in the brain: AI reads brain data, generates personally attractive images

Researchers propose novel dichroic laser mirror design with mixture layers and sandwich-like-structure interfaces

How an 'antibiotic' helps bacteria eat

Study: Combined liver-cytokine humanization rescues circulating red blood cells for testing drugs

Roundworms 'read' wavelengths in the environment to avoid dangerous bacteria that secrete colorful toxins

Widespread wildfire as a proxy for resource strain

Large-scale study uncovers recent genetic connectivity in chimpanzee subspecies, despite isolation

Tracking proteins in the heart of cells

Key enzymes for synthesizing natural products

X-ray microscopy reveals the outstanding craftsmanship of Siberian Iron Age textile dyers

An ultra-degree-of-freedom structured vector beam

Nanoprinted high-neuron-density optical linear perceptrons perform near-infrared inference on a CMOS chip

The Famed Painting The Scream Holds a Hidden Message

Fine particulate matter from wildfire smoke more harmful than pollution from other sources

New quantum theory heats up thermodynamic research

Antarctic seals reveal worrying threats to disappearing glaciers

The collapse of Northern California kelp forests will be hard to reverse

Why reopening US schools is so complicated

SpaceX: more risks, better rockets?

9 great apes get COVID-19 vaccinations at San Diego Zoo

I asked an AI to tell me how beautiful I am

Little damage from huge Pacific quake; tsunami threat passes

Giant clam shells worth $3.3 million seized in Philippine raid

Quake-ravaged part of Croatia sees gaping sinkholes emerge

Biden lauds NASA team for giving US 'dose of confidence'

Variable compensation and salesperson health