Efforts to promote equity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering and math have a long way to go, a new report suggests. Over the last…
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Federal health officials in the United States are pressing pause on administering Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine following rare reports of blood clots in people…
Screams of joy appear to be easier for our brains to comprehend than screams of fear, a new study suggests. The results add a surprising…
As climate change brings more wildfires to the western United States, a rare fungal infection has also been on the rise. Valley fever is up…
A Magellanic penguin in Brazil ingested a face mask. A hedgehog in England got itself entangled in a glove. An octopus off the coast of…
Stony corals that build reefs have been hiding their diversity in plain sight. A genetic analysis of the most widespread reef coral in the Indo-Pacific…
Wind energy is surging in the United States. In 2020, turbines generated about 8 percent of the country’s electricity — roughly 50 times the share…
The under-ice trek of an autonomous underwater vehicle is giving scientists their first direct evidence for how and where warm ocean waters are threatening the…
The most oxygen-poor star-forming galaxy ever found hints that the first galaxies to arise after the universe’s birth glittered with supermassive stars that left behind…
Even after ancient humans took their first steps out of Africa, they still unexpectedly may have possessed brains more like those of great apes than…