More than a year after the novel coronavirus had spread to all corners of the globe, officially becoming a pandemic, we still don’t know where…
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Second bouts of COVID-19 are rare, though people 65 years and older may be at higher risk of reinfection than younger ones, a study from…
Fooling the brain — Science News, March 20, 1971 Chronic pain can be treated surgically by severing nerves or by destroying a small part of…
If everything in the world had to be divided into two bins — one for living things and one for nonliving — the task might…
A cloud of expanding gas in space is the largest supernova remnant ever seen in the sky, a new study confirms. The Milky Way has…
One key ingredient for life thought to be delivered to Earth by meteorites may have been homemade after all. The phosphorus that went into building…
An ocean’s worth of water may be lurking in minerals below Mars’ surface, which could help explain why the Red Planet dried up. Once home…
A deadly fungus that seemed to spring up out of nowhere in hospitals has been found in nature for the first time. Researchers isolated the…
Some 260 million years ago, before the rise of dinosaurs, bone-crushing anteosaurs reigned as land’s largest predators. A new analysis of an anteosaur skull suggests…
A light crackling sound floats above a field in northern Switzerland in late summer. Its source is invisible, tucked inside a dead, dried plant stem:…