New research may upend what we know about how tornadoes form (Dec 2018)

Corn domestication took some unexpected twists and turns (Dec 2018)

Voyager 2 spacecraft enters interstellar space (Dec 2018)

Global carbon dioxide emissions will hit a record high in 2018 (Dec 2018)

In a first, a woman with a uterus transplanted from a deceased donor gives birth (Dec 2018)

Scientists’ collection of gravitational waves just got a lot bigger (Dec 2018)

Dads, not just moms, can pass along mitochondrial DNA (Dec 2018)

Half the world’s annual rain falls in just 12 days (Nov 2018)

Physicists finally calculated where the proton’s mass comes from (Nov 2018)

NASA’s InSight lander has touched down safely on Mars (Nov 2018)

Small doses of peanut protein can turn allergies around (Nov 2018)

It’s official: We’re redefining the kilogram (Nov 2018)

Coffee or tea? Your preference may be written in your DNA (Nov 2018)

A massive crater hides beneath Greenland’s ice (Nov 2018)

Vitamin D supplements don’t prevent heart disease or cancer (Nov 2018)

Bizarre metals may help unlock mysteries of how Earth’s magnetic field forms (Nov 2018)

A lack of sleep can induce anxiety (Nov 2018)

Physicists measured Earth’s mass using neutrinos for the first time (Nov 2018)

A mashup of yeast and E. coli shows how mitochondria might have evolved (Nov 2018)

Fossils hint hominids migrated through a ‘green’ Arabia 300,000 years ago (Nov 2018)

New devices could help turn atmospheric CO2 into useful supplies (Oct 2018)

Hurricane Willa breaks an eastern and central Pacific storm season record (Oct 2018)

T. rex pulverized bones with an incredible amount of force (Oct 2018)

More tornadoes are popping up east of the Mississippi (Oct 2018)

What the electron’s near-perfect roundness means for new physics (Oct 2018)

A mysterious polio-like disease has sickened as many as 127 people in the U.S. (Oct 2018)

City size and structure may influence influenza epidemics (Oct 2018)

The first observed wimpy supernova may have birthed a neutron star duo (Oct 2018)

These light-loving bacteria may survive surprisingly deep underground (Oct 2018)

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees versus 2 has big benefits, the IPCC says (Oct 2018)

Speeding up evolution to create useful proteins wins the chemistry Nobel (Oct 2018)

Hubble may have spotted the first known exomoon (Oct 2018)

Dazzling laser feats earn these physicists a Nobel (Oct 2018)

Giraffes inherit their spots from their mothers (Oct 2018)

Discovery of how to prod a patient’s immune system to fight cancer wins a Nobel (Oct 2018)

Warm tropical Atlantic waters juiced the 2017 hurricane season (Sep 2018)

The first rovers to explore an asteroid just sent photos home (Sep 2018)

Cholesterol traces suggest these mysterious fossils were animals, not fungi (Sep 2018)

Sea level rise doesn’t necessarily spell doom for coastal wetlands (Sep 2018)

Sound waves can make bubbles in levitated drops of liquid (Sep 2018)

A new hydrogen-rich compound may be a record-breaking superconductor (Sep 2018)

How obesity may harm memory and learning (Sep 2018)

Wildfires make their own weather, and that matters for fire management (Sep 2018)

German skeletons hint that medieval warrior groups recruited from afar (Sep 2018)

Artificial intelligence could improve predictions for where quake aftershocks will hit (Aug 2018)

An elusive Higgs boson decay has finally been spotted (Aug 2018)

Scientists create a mineral in the lab that captures carbon dioxide (Aug 2018)

A fossil mistaken for a bat may shake up lemurs’ evolutionary history (Aug 2018)

A filter that turns saltwater into freshwater just got an upgrade (Aug 2018)

A resurrected gene may protect elephants from cancer (Aug 2018)

A new computer program generates eerily realistic fake videos (Aug 2018)

New Horizons may have seen a glow at the solar system’s edge (Aug 2018)

The debate over people’s pathway into the Americas heats up (Aug 2018)

Strange metals are even weirder than scientists thought (Aug 2018)

Cremated remains reveal hints of who is buried at Stonehenge (Aug 2018)

Fossil teeth show how a mass extinction scrambled shark evolution (Aug 2018)

Rare blue diamonds are born deep in Earth’s mantle (Aug 2018)

In a first, physicists accelerate atoms in the Large Hadron Collider (Jul 2018)

Mars (probably) has a lake of liquid water (Jul 2018)

What leech gut bacteria can tell us about drug resistance (Jul 2018)

Pediatricians warn against chemical additives in food for kids (Jul 2018)

This amber nugget from Myanmar holds the first known baby snake fossil (Jul 2018)

Wildfires are making extreme air pollution even worse in the northwest U.S. (Jul 2018)

A high-energy neutrino has been traced to its galactic birthplace (Jul 2018)

Bird poop helps keep coral reefs healthy, but rats are messing that up (Jul 2018)

Cancer cells engineered with CRISPR slay their own kin (Jul 2018)

Nerve cells that help control hunger have been ID’d in mice (Jul 2018)

Researchers create hybrid embryos of endangered white rhinos (Jul 2018)

Astronomers snap the first baby pictures of a planet (Jul 2018)

This invasive tick can clone itself and suck livestock dry (Jun 2018)

Mini machines can evade friction by taking quantum shortcuts (Jun 2018)

Finally, there’s a way to keep syphilis growing in the lab (Jun 2018)

Mars got its crust quickly (Jun 2018)

Einstein’s general relativity reigns supreme, even on a galactic scale (Jun 2018)

Leaf-cutter ants pick up the pace when they sense rain (Jun 2018)

Magnetic fields may be propping up the Pillars of Creation (Jun 2018)

Sunshine is making Deepwater Horizon oil stick around (Jun 2018)

Kids with food allergies are twice as likely to have autism (Jun 2018)

Tropical cyclones have slowed over the last 70 years (Jun 2018)

A big analysis of environmental data strengthens the case for plant-based diets (Jun 2018)

Dogs carry a surprising variety of flu viruses (Jun 2018)

Blame opioids for a fifth of young adult deaths in the United States (Jun 2018)

Mysterious neutrino surplus hints at the existence of new particles (Jun 2018)

Never-before-seen dunes on Pluto spotted in New Horizons images (May 2018)

Dark matter particles elude scientists in the biggest search of its kind (May 2018)

Fleets of self-driving taxis could be choreographed to cut traffic (May 2018)

As CO2 increases, rice loses B vitamins and other nutrients (May 2018)

A caterpillar outwits corn defenses by gorging on fattening ‘junk’ food (May 2018)

Another hint of Europa’s watery plumes found in 20-year-old Galileo data (May 2018)

RNA injected from one sea slug into another may transfer memories (May 2018)

This AI uses the same kind of brain wiring as mammals to navigate (May 2018)

A celebration of curiosity for Feynman’s 100th birthday (May 2018)

Here’s how to use DNA to find elusive sharks (May 2018)

New ideas about how stars die help solve a decades-old mystery (May 2018)

Neutron stars shed neutrinos to cool down quickly (May 2018)

The first smallpox treatment is one step closer to FDA approval (May 2018)

Last year’s solar eclipse set off a wave in the upper atmosphere (Apr 2018)

Footprints prove humans hunted giant sloths during the Ice Age (Apr 2018)

The latest star map from the Gaia spacecraft plots 1.7 billion stars (Apr 2018)

This meteorite’s diamonds hint that it was born in a lost planet (Apr 2018)

Rising CO2 levels might not be as good for plants as we thought (Apr 2018)

Why touch can be such a creepy sensation in VR (Apr 2018)

Dogs lived and died with humans 10,000 years ago in the Americas (Apr 2018)

Einstein’s general relativity reveals new quirk of Mercury’s orbit (Apr 2018)

This material uses energy from ambient light to kill hospital superbugs (Apr 2018)

Finger fossil puts people in Arabia at least 86,000 years ago (Apr 2018)

The search for mysterious dark matter underdogs steps up (Apr 2018)

Seafloor map shows why Greenland’s glaciers melt at different rates (Apr 2018)

Ardi walked the walk 4.4 million years ago (Apr 2018)

Dark matter is MIA in this strange galaxy (Mar 2018)

Humpback whale bumps have marine biologists stumped (Mar 2018)

The great Pacific garbage patch may be 16 times as massive as we thought (Mar 2018)

Male birth control pill passes a safety test (Mar 2018)

Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may be water worlds (Mar 2018)

Tree rings tell tale of drought in Mongolia over the last 2,000 years (Mar 2018)

Astronomers can’t figure out why some black holes got so big so fast (Mar 2018)

Dino-bird had wings made for flapping, not just gliding (Mar 2018)

This baby bird fossil gives a rare look at ancient avian development (Mar 2018)

4 surprising things we just learned about Jupiter (Mar 2018)

Massive stellar flare may have fried Earth’s nearest exoplanet (Mar 2018)

In the future, an AI may diagnose eye problems (Mar 2018)

A rare rainstorm wakes undead microbes in Chile’s Atacama Desert (Feb 2018)

Two-way communication is possible with a single quantum particle (Feb 2018)

The last wild horses aren’t truly wild (Feb 2018)

An amateur astronomer caught a supernova explosion on camera (Feb 2018)

The flowers that give us chocolate are ridiculously hard to pollinate (Feb 2018)

Household products make surprisingly large contributions to air pollution (Feb 2018)

Look to penguins to track Antarctic changes (Feb 2018)

5 ways the heaviest element on the periodic table is really bizarre (Feb 2018)

Humans are overloading the world’s freshwater bodies with phosphorus (Feb 2018)

Pollinators are usually safe from a Venus flytrap (Feb 2018)

The way dwarf galaxies move puts a new spin on galaxy formation (Feb 2018)

Gravity doesn’t leak into large, hidden dimensions (Feb 2018)

Plastic pollution increases risk of devastating disease in corals (Jan 2018)

An ancient jaw pushes humans’ African departure back in time (Jan 2018)

Massive dust storms are robbing Mars of its water (Jan 2018)

New twist on a flu vaccine revs up the body’s army of virus killers (Jan 2018)

Ultrathin 2D metals get their own periodic table (Jan 2018)

Trio of dead stars upholds a key part of Einstein’s theory of gravity (Jan 2018)

Fast radio bursts may be from a neutron star orbiting a black hole (Jan 2018)

‘Laid-back’ bonobos take a shine to belligerents (Jan 2018)

These disease-fighting bacteria produce echoes detectable by ultrasound (Jan 2018)

Aliens ruled out for why Tabby’s star flickers (Jan 2018)

A sinking, melting ancient tectonic plate may fuel Yellowstone’s supervolcano (Jan 2018)