In the midst of a pandemic that has brought so much worry and loss, it’s natural to want to help — to do some small part to…
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The Milky Way’s core harbors two giants: the galaxy’s largest black hole and a cluster of tens of millions of stars around the black hole…
What could be more 2020 than an ongoing invasion of jumping worms? These earthworms are wriggling their way across the United States, voraciously devouring protective…
Clues from a chemical — Science News, October 3, 1970 An experimental drug’s effects on the sexual behavior of certain animals is arousing interest among investigators.……
Fresh intel from Mars is sure to stir debate about whether liquid water lurks beneath the planet’s polar ice. New data from a probe orbiting…
Schrödinger’s WebJonathan P. DowlingCRC Press, $40.95 When news broke last year that Google’s quantum computer Sycamore had performed a calculation faster than the fastest supercomputers…
Supercooled water may be a two-for-one deal. A long-standing theory holds that liquid water at temperatures well below freezing is composed of two different arrangements…
COVID-19 kills some people and leaves others relatively unscathed. But why? Age and underlying health conditions are risk factors, but scientists are trying to tease…
A two-month stint on the moon would expose astronauts to roughly the same amount of radiation as they would get living on the International Space…
Each winter, Baffin Bay freezes over as polar darkness descends over the top of the world. Come spring, phytoplankton will bloom in these cold waters…