Supernova surprise creates elemental mystery

New Yorkers believe pandemic will persist, but express hope in wake of election

No nanoparticle risks found in field tests of spray sunscreens

Climate change as a catalyst in Greater Cahokia

A combined strategy in catalyst design for Suzuki cross-couplings

New platform generates hybrid light-matter excitations in highly charged graphene

Chaotic early solar system collisions resembled 'asteroids' arcade game

No poaching occurring within most Channel Islands marine protected areas

Best region for life on Mars was far below surface

Flightless birds more common globally before human-driven extinctions

What's killing killer whales? Orca report covering a decade of necropsies identifies threats

African trade routes sketched out by mediaeval beads

'Message in a bottle' tracks plastic pollution

The making of mysterious mazes: How animals got their complex colorations

2020 Is a Record Year for Disaster Shelters, Red Cross Says

Roly polies transfer environmental toxins to threatened fish populations in California

Amphibian die-offs worsened malaria outbreaks in Central America

Ozone breaks down THC deposited on surfaces from thirdhand cannabis smoke

Greenland ice sheet faces irreversible melting

Plant-inspired alkaloids protect rice, kiwi and citrus from harmful bacteria

Researchers determine how the SARS-CoV-2 virus hijacks and rapidly causes damage to human lung cells

An archaeological project analyzes informal commerce in the colonial Caribbean

Researchers develop new class of plant nanobionic sensor to monitor arsenic levels in soil

Method could improve SARS-CoV-2 testing in variety of sewage systems

Carbon dioxide converted to ethylene—the 'rice of the industry'

A machine learning solution for designing materials with desired optical properties

Electronic waste on the decline, new study finds

Protein molecules in cells function as miniature antennas

The tree of cortical cell types describes the diversity of neurons in the brain

Natural three-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal

Making the workplace safer with innovative covid-19-fighting solutions

New microscope technique reveals details of droplet nucleation

Researchers improve the measurement of a fundamental physical constant

Continents prone to destruction in their infancy, study finds

Visualisation reveals how a protein 'hunkers down' to conserve energy

New glue sticks easily, holds strongly, and is a gas to pull apart

Self-repairing gelatin-based film could be a smart move for electronics

Active camouflage artificial skin in visible-to-infrared range

Scientists invent a new type of microscope that can see through an intact skull

New butterfly-inspired hydrogen sensor is powered by light

Japan is about to bring back samples of an asteroid 180 million miles away

Photonics meets surface science in a cheap and accurate sensor for biological liquids

Biomedical engineers find active particles swim against the current

Valuing 'natural capital' vital to avoid next pandemic, global experts warn

Newly discovered ghostly circles in the sky can't be explained by current theories, astronomers excited

Researchers ask public for help finding lingering ash trees

Entry barriers for women are amplified by AI in recruitment algorithms, study finds

Science confirms what we all know: Gentrification disproportionately affects minorities

Creating a next-generation photonic-electronic integration circuit

Dark energy camera snaps deepest photo yet of galactic siblings

HETDEX project on track to probe dark energy

Cell membranes in super resolution

Psychology research shows 'water cooler talk' can have big benefits

The very lonely seismometer: A 'dormant' earthquake monitoring program's last remnants

SOHO's pioneering 25 years in orbit

Chemistry professor uses old materials to make newer, better solar cells

Not all blackened landscapes are bad. We must learn to love the right kind

2020 one of three hottest years ever recorded: UN

Report: Climate change damaging more World Heritage sites

Satellites can see the pollution trails from individual ships

Novel biocatalytic membrane removes micropollutants in an efficient and stable way

New glue sticks easily, holds strongly, and is a gas to pull apart

Novel metal-organic framework nanosheets developed for anticorrosive coating

New tuberous species of begonia found in southern Yunnan

Elephants found to have the highest volume of daily water loss ever recorded in a land animal

Sediment cores from Dogger Littoral suggest Dogger Island survived ancient tsunami

China's space ambitions: Robot on Mars, a human on the moon

How lessons from bees, leaves and our own blood may help us save civilization

Why there's a lot more to love about jacarandas than just their purple flowers

In the far future, stellar flybys will completely dismantle the solar system

Scientists discover new way to measure turbulence of large planets and exoplanets

Researchers develop new electrode structure for all-solid-state secondary battery

China spacecraft collects moon samples to take back to Earth

Second cyclone in a week threatens Sri Lanka, India

Logging in to get kicked out: Inside America’s virtual eviction crisis

The U.S. Has Embraced Immigrant Tech Entrepreneurs. Now It's Europe's Turn

The election is over, but voter fraud conspiracies aren’t going away

No country 'immune' to COVID-19 economic shock, but Asian nations will bounce back faster

The UK has granted emergency approval for Pfizer/BioNTech’s covid-19 vaccine

China's 'space dream': A Long March to the Moon and beyond

'Don't leave trash in the desert': Utah monolith removal explained

Lab developing device to help Earth dodge asteroids

New Zealand symbolically declares climate emergency

Wildlife advocates sue US agency to protect Canada lynx

Keeping California a powerhouse of almond production

After 100 years, Cornell University plant pathologists revisit fire blight hypothesis

New tests identify early changes in Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms appear

Cancer cells 'remove blindfold' to spread

Cultured meat has been approved for consumers for the first time