The question of whether dietary supplements might help combat the coronavirus reveals an essential tension between what people want and what we’ve got. What we…
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Measles has come back with a vengeance around the world in recent years, wiping out steep declines in cases seen since the start of the…
In August, a dry lightning storm over California sparked an intense wildfire that raged through communities in the Santa Cruz mountains. After the CZU Lightning…
Indigenous Bolivian Amazon dwellers are helping to bolster recent findings that normal body temperature, around 37° Celsius, or 98.6° Fahrenheit, might not be so normal…
Clouds may be ecosystems — Science News, November 14, 1970 Clouds in the sky may contain living microbial ecosystems…. [Research] determined that metabolic activity, in the…
Mars’ water is being skimmed off the top. NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft found water lofted into Mars’ upper atmosphere, where its hydrogen and oxygen atoms are…
When one of Hye-Sook Park’s experiments goes well, everyone nearby knows. “We can hear Hye-Sook screaming,” she’s heard colleagues say. It’s no surprise that she…
The atmospheric light show nicknamed STEVE may be even weirder than skywatchers thought. STEVE, short for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement, is a sky glow…
Atlantic hurricanes are taking longer to weaken after making landfall than they did 50 years ago, thanks to climate change. Over the past 50 years,…
Some immune defenses of the brain may have their roots in the gut. A new study in mice finds that immune cells are first trained…