Specialized protein helps these ground squirrels resist the cold (Dec 2017)

The Sun’s outer atmosphere is far more complex than previously thought (Dec 2017)

These weather events turned extreme thanks to human-driven climate change (Dec 2017)

AI has found an 8-planet system like ours in Kepler data (Dec 2017)

Ticks had a taste for dinosaur blood (Dec 2017)

This new dinosaur species was one odd duck (Dec 2017)

The most distant quasar ever spotted hails from the universe’s infancy (Dec 2017)

New setup for image recognition AI lets a program think on its feet (Dec 2017)

New 3D printed materials harness the power of bacteria (Dec 2017)

‘Arrow of time’ reversed in quantum experiment (Nov 2017)

The dietary habits of the emerald ash borer beetle are complicated (Nov 2017)

The key to breaking down plastic may be in caterpillars’ guts (Nov 2017)

Simulating the universe using Einstein’s theory of gravity may solve cosmic puzzles (Nov 2017)

Cholera pandemics are fueled by globe-trotting bacterial strains (Nov 2017)

This star cheated death, exploding again and again (Nov 2017)

Alzheimer’s protein can travel from blood to build up in the brain (Nov 2017)

Humans are driving climate change, federal scientists say (Nov 2017)

Dino-dooming asteroid impact created a chilling sulfur cloud (Nov 2017)

Photons are caught behaving like superconducting electrons (Oct 2017)

An interstellar asteroid might have just been spotted for the first time (Oct 2017)

What detecting gravitational waves means for the expansion of the universe (Oct 2017)

Mating with Neandertals reintroduced ‘lost’ DNA into modern humans (Oct 2017)

The newest AlphaGo mastered the game with no human input (Oct 2017)

Neutron star collision showers the universe with a wealth of discoveries (Oct 2017)

Gut fungi might be linked to obesity and inflammatory bowel disorders (Oct 2017)

During El Niño, the tropics emit more carbon dioxide (Oct 2017)

In many places around the world, obesity in kids is on the rise (Oct 2017)

Much of the world’s honey now contains bee-harming pesticides (Oct 2017)

Why it’s good news that Pluto doesn’t have rings (Oct 2017)

Cool way to peer into molecules’ inner workings wins chemistry Nobel Prize (Oct 2017)

A baby ichthyosaur’s last meal revealed (Oct 2017)

Trio wins physics Nobel Prize for gravitational wave detection (Oct 2017)

Cracking the body clock code wins trio a Nobel Prize (Oct 2017)

Turning up the heat on electrons reveals an elusive physics phenomenon (Sep 2017)

3-D scans of fossils suggest new fish family tree (Sep 2017)

Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays come from outside the Milky Way (Sep 2017)

Intense storms provide the first test of powerful new hurricane forecast tools (Sep 2017)

The Sun’s strongest flare in 11 years might help explain a solar paradox (Sep 2017)

When a fungus invades the lungs, immune cells can tell it to self-destruct (Sep 2017)

Pollen hitches a ride on bees in all the right spots (Sep 2017)

People may have lived in Brazil more than 20,000 years ago (Sep 2017)

Rings of Uranus reveal secrets of the planet's moon Cressida (Sep 2017)

Molecules face the big chill (Aug 2017)

New antennas are up to a hundredth the size of today’s devices (Aug 2017)

Some secrets of China’s terra-cotta army are baked in the clay (Aug 2017)

How an itch hitches a ride to the brain (Aug 2017)

Embryos kill off male tissue to become female (Aug 2017)

A new tool could one day improve Lyme disease diagnosis (Aug 2017)

Seismologists get to the bottom of how deep Earth’s continents go (Aug 2017)

Gene editing creates virus-free piglets (Aug 2017)

Neutrino experiment may hint at why matter rules the universe (Aug 2017)

Gene editing of human embryos gets rid of a mutation that causes heart failure (Aug 2017)

One in three U.S. adults takes opioids, and many misuse them (Aug 2017)

Diamond joins the realm of 2-D thin films, study suggests (Jul 2017)

Most football players who donated their brains to science had traumatic injury (Jul 2017)

Cows produce powerful HIV antibodies (Jul 2017)

Scientists peek inside the mind of Maxwell’s demon (Jul 2017)

Water bears will survive the end of the world as we know it (Jul 2017)

GM moth trial gets a green light from USDA (Jul 2017)

Delaware-sized iceberg breaks off Antarctic ice shelf (Jul 2017)

Whales feast when hatcheries release salmon (Jul 2017)

How humans (maybe) domesticated themselves (Jul 2017)

The Moon might have had a heavy metal atmosphere with supersonic winds (Jun 2017)

Flight demands may have steered the evolution of bird egg shape (Jun 2017)

DNA reveals how cats achieved world domination (Jun 2017)

Quantum satellite shatters entanglement record (Jun 2017)

New heart attack treatment uses photosynthetic bacteria to make oxygen (Jun 2017)

New kind of ‘tan in a bottle’ may one day protect against skin cancer (Jun 2017)

Oldest known Homo sapiens fossils come from northern Africa, studies claim (Jun 2017)

Milky Way’s loner status is upheld (Jun 2017)

When it comes to the flu, the nose has a long memory (Jun 2017)

LIGO snags another set of gravitational waves (Jun 2017)

Juno spacecraft reveals a more complex Jupiter (May 2017)

How a flamingo balances on one leg (May 2017)

European fossils may belong to earliest known hominid (May 2017)

Even short-term opioid use can set people up for addiction risks (May 2017)

When it’s hot, plants become a surprisingly large source of air pollution (May 2017)

Orangutans take motherhood to extremes, nursing young for more than eight years (May 2017)

Ancient whale tells tale of when baleen whales had teeth (May 2017)

Antiproton count hints at dark matter annihilation (May 2017)

A baby's pain registers in the brain (May 2017)

Crack in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf forks (May 2017)

Here’s how an asteroid impact would kill you (May 2017)

Ocean acidification may hamper food web’s nitrogen-fixing heroes (Apr 2017)

Cassini’s ring dive offers first close-up of Saturn’s cloud tops (Apr 2017)

Faux womb keeps preemie lambs alive (Apr 2017)

Immune cells play surprising role in steady heartbeat (Apr 2017)

Plot twist in methane mystery blames chemistry, not emissions, for recent rise (Apr 2017)

Food for microbes found on Enceladus (Apr 2017)

Common virus may be celiac disease culprit (Apr 2017)

Bone-inspired steel cracks less under pressure (Apr 2017)

Food odors are more enticing to sleep-deprived brains (Apr 2017)

Dengue fever spreads in a neighborly way (Mar 2017)

Deadly New Zealand quake hopscotched across faults (Mar 2017)

Superfluid helium behaves like black holes (Mar 2017)

How one enslaving wasp eats through another (Mar 2017)

Changing climate could worsen foods’ nutrition (Mar 2017)

How to grow toxin-free corn (Mar 2017)

Warming soils may belch much more carbon (Mar 2017)

Astronomers detect oldest known stardust in distant galaxy (Mar 2017)

Choosing the right cyberattack response is a complicated game (Mar 2017)

Oldest microfossils suggest life thrived on Earth about 4 billion years ago (Mar 2017)

Seven Earth-sized planets orbit nearby supercool star (Feb 2017)

Howler monkeys may owe their color vision to leaf hue (Feb 2017)

Ceres harbors homegrown organic compounds (Feb 2017)

Supernova spotted shortly after explosion (Feb 2017)

Fleeting dead zones can muck with seafloor life for decades (Feb 2017)

Horse evolution bucks evolutionary theory (Feb 2017)

Middling black hole may be hiding in star cluster (Feb 2017)

Physicists seek neutron lifetime’s secret (Feb 2017)

Dragonfish opens wide with flex neck joint (Feb 2017)

Possible sign of dark matter shows up again (Jan 2017)

Big genetics study blazes path for bringing back tomato flavor (Jan 2017)

Chemists strike gold, solve mystery about precious metal’s properties (Jan 2017)

For three years in a row, Earth breaks heat record (Jan 2017)

Petrified tree rings tell ancient tale of Sun’s behavior (Jan 2017)

Pain promoter also acts as pain reliever (Jan 2017)

Many tiny moons came together to form Moon, simulations suggest (Jan 2017)

Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf nears breaking point (Jan 2017)

Meat-eating pitcher plants raise deathtraps to an art (Jan 2017)

Carbon can exceed four-bond limit (Jan 2017)

Gotcha: Fast radio burst's home nabbed (Jan 2017)

These acorn worms have a head for swimming (Jan 2017)