Passing through the Milky Way’s arms may have helped form Earth’s solid ground (Sep 2022)

The worldwide water-lifting power of plants is enormous (Sep 2022)

A clever molecular trick extends the lives of these ant queens (Sep 2022)

The James Webb telescope spotted carbon dioxide in an exoplanet’s atmosphere (Aug 2022)

A new seasoning smells like meat thanks to sugar — and mealworms (Aug 2022)

‘Chameleon’ forces remain elusive in a new dark energy experiment (Aug 2022)

7-million-year-old limb fossils may be from the earliest known hominid (Aug 2022)

Common, cheap ingredients can break down some ‘forever chemicals’ (Aug 2022)

The first known monkeypox infection in a pet dog hints at spillover risk (Aug 2022)

Why humans have more voice control than any other primates (Aug 2022)

The Arctic is warming even faster than scientists realized (Aug 2022)

Relocated beavers helped mitigate some effects of climate change (Aug 2022)

Scientists mapped dark matter around galaxies in the early universe (Aug 2022)

A new James Webb telescope image reveals a galactic collision’s aftermath (Aug 2022)

Two black holes merged despite being born far apart in space (Aug 2022)

A new technology uses human teardrops to spot disease (Aug 2022)

Astronauts might be able to use asteroid soil to grow crops (Jul 2022)

Famine and disease may have driven ancient Europeans’ lactose tolerance (Jul 2022)

The world is ‘losing the window’ to contain monkeypox, experts warn (Jul 2022)

Underground heat pollution could be tapped to mitigate climate change (Jul 2022)

Two pig hearts were successfully transplanted into brain-dead people (Jul 2022)

Do gophers farm roots? It’s not as clear as viral articles claim (Jul 2022)

The most distant rotating galaxy hails from 13.3 billion years ago (Jul 2022)

The flowery scent of a Zika or dengue infection lures mosquitoes (Jul 2022)

College COVID-19 testing can reduce coronavirus deaths in local communities (Jul 2022)

How scientists are shifting their search for links between diet and dementia (Jul 2022)

How to build better ice towers for drinking water and irrigation (Jul 2022)

Aliens could send quantum messages to Earth, calculations suggest (Jul 2022)

Six months in space leads to a decade’s worth of long-term bone loss (Jun 2022)

Britons’ tools from 560,000 years ago have emerged from gravel pits (Jun 2022)

Earth’s oldest known wildfires raged 430 million years ago (Jun 2022)

Cats chewing on catnip boosts the plant’s insect-repelling powers (Jun 2022)

How fast a row of dominoes topples depends on friction (Jun 2022)

Western wildfires’ health risks extend across the country (Jun 2022)

Ancient bacterial DNA hints Europe’s Black Death started in Central Asia (Jun 2022)

A celestial loner might be the first known rogue black hole (Jun 2022)

Ancient penguin bones reveal unprecedented shrinkage in key Antarctic glaciers (Jun 2022)

A pigment’s shift in chemistry robbed a painted yellow rose of its brilliance (Jun 2022)

Mosquitoes prefer dozing over dining when they are sleep-deprived (Jun 2022)

A new origin story for domesticated chickens starts in rice fields 3,500 years ago (Jun 2022)

Just 3 ingredients can quickly destroy widely used PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ (Jun 2022)

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft spotted a ‘hedgehog’ on the Sun (Jun 2022)

Trained dogs sniff out COVID-19 as well as lab tests do (Jun 2022)

Pulsars may power cosmic rays with the highest-known energies in the universe (May 2022)

These dolphins may turn to corals for skin care (May 2022)

Here’s why pipe organs seem to violate a rule of sound (May 2022)

A Denisovan girl’s fossil tooth may have been unearthed in Laos (May 2022)

We finally have an image of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way (May 2022)

Oat and soy milks are planet friendly, but not as nutritious as cow milk (May 2022)

Lava and frost may form the mysterious lumps on Jupiter’s moon Io (May 2022)

Ancient zircons may record the dawn of plate tectonics (May 2022)

Glowing spider fossils may exist thanks to tiny algae’s goo (Apr 2022)

A new nuclear imaging prototype detects tumors’ faint glow (Apr 2022)

Most bats don’t echolocate in broad daylight. Here’s an exception (Apr 2022)

A newly discovered planet renews debate about how some giant worlds form (Apr 2022)

More than 57 billion tons of soil have eroded in the U.S. Midwest (Apr 2022)

Leeches expose wildlife’s whereabouts and may aid conservation efforts (Apr 2022)

A star nicknamed ‘Earendel’ may be the most distant yet seen (Apr 2022)

Where you grew up may shape your navigational skills (Apr 2022)

Forests help reduce global warming in more ways than one (Mar 2022)

Levitating plastic beads mimic the physics of spinning asteroids (Mar 2022)

Smoke from Australia’s intense fires in 2019 and 2020 damaged the ozone layer (Mar 2022)

A gene therapy for hemophilia boosts levels of a crucial clotting protein (Mar 2022)

Lithium mining may be putting some flamingos in Chile at risk (Mar 2022)

An extinct rat shows CRISPR’s limits for resurrecting species (Mar 2022)

A new image captures enormous gas rings encircling an aging red star (Mar 2022)

Some deep-sea octopuses aren’t the long-haul moms scientists thought they were (Mar 2022)

Africa’s fynbos plants hold their ground with the world’s thinnest roots (Mar 2022)

One forensic scientist is scraping bones for clues to time of death (Feb 2022)

A rare collision of dead stars can bring a new one to life (Feb 2022)

Artificial intelligence challenges what it means to be creative (Feb 2022)

How ‘hot Jupiters’ may get their weirdly tight orbits (Feb 2022)

Weird ‘superionic’ matter could make up Earth’s inner core (Feb 2022)

A diamondlike structure gives some starfish skeletons their strength (Feb 2022)

Male elephant seals aim to get huge or die trying (Feb 2022)

Vinegar eels can synchronize swim (Feb 2022)

The past’s extreme ocean heat waves are now the new normal (Feb 2022)

Urban animals may get some dangerous gut microbes from humans (Jan 2022)

Volcanic avalanches of rock and gas may be more destructive than previously thought (Jan 2022)

Scientists vacuumed animal DNA out of thin air for the first time (Jan 2022)

Oxygen-rich exoplanets may be geologically active (Jan 2022)

Drug-resistant bacteria evolved on hedgehogs long before the use of antibiotics (Jan 2022)

The coronavirus may cause fat cells to miscommunicate, leading to diabetes (Jan 2022)

Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ could have far-reaching climate effects (Jan 2022)