Ocean acidification could degrade sharks' tough skin (Dec 2019)

Why some whales are giants and others are just big (Dec 2019)

Flooding Earth’s atmosphere with oxygen may not have needed a triggering event (Dec 2019)

Licelike insects munched on dinosaur feathers around 100 million years ago (Dec 2019)

Fingerprints of climate change are increasingly appearing in extreme weather (Dec 2019)

Electric charges on dust grains may help explain how planets are born (Dec 2019)

Scientists’ brains shrank a bit after an extended stay in Antarctica (Dec 2019)

Climate-warming CO2 emissions will hit a record high in 2019 (Dec 2019)

An ancient outbreak of bubonic plague may have been exaggerated (Dec 2019)

A new, theoretical type of time crystal could run without outside help (Nov 2019)

A carved rock found in Jordan may be the oldest known chess piece (Nov 2019)

How two gamma-ray bursts created record-breaking high-energy photons (Nov 2019)

A tiny switch could redirect light between computer chips in mere nanoseconds (Nov 2019)

California landfills are belching high levels of climate-warming methane (Nov 2019)

Silver-backed chevrotains have been ‘rediscovered’ by science after 29 years (Nov 2019)

Vitamin E acetate is a culprit in the deadly vaping outbreak, the CDC says (Nov 2019)

Trapping atoms in a laser beam offers a new way to measure gravity (Nov 2019)

The first artificial material that follows sunlight may upgrade solar panels (Nov 2019)

A toe bone hints that Neandertals used eagle talons as jewelry (Nov 2019)

Molecular jiggling may explain why some solids shrink when heated (Nov 2019)

A new estimate triples the number of people in the path of rising seas (Oct 2019)

The solar system may have a new smallest dwarf planet: Hygiea (Oct 2019)

Strontium is the first heavy element detected from a neutron star merger (Oct 2019)

Aye-ayes just got weirder with the discovery of a tiny, sixth ‘finger’ (Oct 2019)

Powerful storms may be causing offshore ‘stormquakes’ (Oct 2019)

Big dinosaurs kept cool thanks to blood vessel clusters in their heads (Oct 2019)

How tardigrades protect their DNA to defy death (Oct 2019)

The development of the lithium-ion battery has won the chemistry Nobel Prize (Oct 2019)

With 20 new moons, Saturn now has the most of any solar system planet (Oct 2019)

Discovery of how cells sense oxygen wins the 2019 medicine Nobel (Oct 2019)

A new image reveals the structure of the cosmic web (Oct 2019)

Losing genes may have helped whales’ ancestors adapt to life under the sea (Oct 2019)

Hurricane Lorenzo hit Category 5 farther east than any other storm (Sep 2019)

CO2 from champagne bottles can form shock waves like those seen in rocket exhaust (Sep 2019)

Alcohol-producing bacteria could cause liver disease in some people (Sep 2019)

We’ve lost 3 billion birds since 1970 in North America (Sep 2019)

Gravitational waves from a ringing black hole support the no-hair theorem (Sep 2019)

Birds fed a common pesticide lost weight rapidly and had migration delays (Sep 2019)

Ancient crystal growths in caves reveal seas rose 16 meters in a warmer world (Sep 2019)

Einstein’s general relativity reveals new features of a pulsar (Sep 2019)

How ancient oceans of magma may have boosted Earth’s oxygen levels (Sep 2019)

Iron sulfide may be keeping Mercury’s core toasty and its magnetic field alive (Sep 2019)

Human meddling has manipulated the shapes of different dog breeds’ brains (Sep 2019)

A 3.8 million-year-old skull reveals the face of Lucy’s possible ancestors (Sep 2019)

A chip made with carbon nanotubes, not silicon, marks a computing milestone (Aug 2019)

Ocean acidification could weaken diatoms’ glass houses (Aug 2019)

Climate change may make El Niño and La Niña less predictable (Aug 2019)

Quantum physicists have teleported ‘qutrits’ for the first time (Aug 2019)

Big and bold wasp queens may create more successful colonies (Aug 2019)

New cloaking devices could hide objects from water waves and currents (Aug 2019)

Fluid in superdeep diamonds may be from some of Earth’s oldest unchanged material (Aug 2019)

Even without concussions, just one football season may damage players’ brains (Aug 2019)

Giant, active galaxies from the early universe may have finally been found (Aug 2019)

Mercury levels in fish are rising despite reduced emissions (Aug 2019)

Why people with celiac disease suffer so soon after eating gluten (Aug 2019)

Monkeys can use basic logic to decipher the order of items in a list (Aug 2019)

The Arctic is burning and Greenland is melting, thanks to record heat (Aug 2019)

U.S. wells are pumping up groundwater from increasing depths (Jul 2019)

Boosting a gut bacterium helps mice fight an ALS-like disease (Jul 2019)

Increased control over ions’ motions may help improve quantum computers (Jul 2019)

Planting trees could buy more time to fight climate change than thought (Jul 2019)

WHO declares a public health emergency over Congo’s Ebola outbreak (Jul 2019)

Night-shining ‘noctilucent’ clouds have crept south this summer (Jul 2019)

Scientists still can’t agree on the universe’s expansion rate (Jul 2019)

3 questions seismologists are asking after the California earthquakes (Jul 2019)

The largest seaweed bloom ever detected spanned the Atlantic in 2018 (Jul 2019)

These fungi drug cicadas with psilocybin or amphetamine to make them mate nonstop (Jul 2019)

Antioxidants may encourage the spread of lung cancer rather than prevent it (Jun 2019)

Gut microbes might help elite athletes boost their physical performance (Jun 2019)

Diamond detectors could aid the search for dark matter (Jun 2019)

A computer model explains how to make perfectly smooth crepes (Jun 2019)

Hyenas roamed the Arctic during the last ice age (Jun 2019)

Astronomers may have spotted the ghost galaxy that hit the Milky Way long ago (Jun 2019)

DNA reveals ancient Siberians who set the stage for the first Americans (Jun 2019)

Soil eroded by glaciers may have kick-started plate tectonics (Jun 2019)

The accretion disk around our galaxy’s black hole has been spotted at last (Jun 2019)

Chemicals in biodegradable food containers can leach into compost (Jun 2019)

Gut bacteria may change the way many drugs work in the body (Jun 2019)

Thousands of birds perished in the Bering Sea. Arctic warming may be to blame (Jun 2019)

In a first, scientists took the temperature of a sonic black hole (May 2019)

Tweaking one gene with CRISPR switched the way a snail shell spirals (May 2019)

The kilogram just got a revamp. A unit of time might be next (May 2019)

How allergens in pollen help plants do more than make you sneeze (May 2019)

Apollo-era moonquakes reveal that the Moon may be tectonically active (May 2019)

Deep-sea fishes’ eye chemistry might let them see colors in near darkness (May 2019)

Dying stars called collapsars may forge much of the universe’s gold (May 2019)

1 million species are under threat. Here are 5 ways we speed up extinctions (May 2019)

Pandas’ share of protein calories from bamboo rivals wolves’ from meat (May 2019)

A jawbone shows Denisovans lived on the Tibetan Plateau long before humans (May 2019)

Skepticism grows over whether the first known exomoon exists (Apr 2019)

A global survey finds that the Arctic Ocean is a hot spot for viruses (Apr 2019)

This is the slowest radioactive decay ever spotted (Apr 2019)

U.S. measles cases hit a record high since the disease was eliminated in 2000 (Apr 2019)

More than a million tiny earthquakes revealed in Southern California (Apr 2019)

Saturn’s moon Titan sports phantom hydrocarbon lakes (Apr 2019)

Tiny microplastics travel far on the wind (Apr 2019)

The first picture of a black hole opens a new era of astrophysics (Apr 2019)

A new hominid species has been found in a Philippine cave, fossils suggest (Apr 2019)

Chickens stand sentinel against mosquito-borne disease in Florida (Apr 2019)

How deadly, fast-moving flows of volcanic rock and gas cheat friction (Apr 2019)

How emus and ostriches lost the ability to fly (Apr 2019)

Bacteria can be coaxed into making the toughest kind of spider silk (Apr 2019)

The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors are back on (Apr 2019)

How a proton gets its spin is surprisingly complicated (Mar 2019)

In a first, a fossilized egg is found preserved inside an ancient bird (Mar 2019)

Surprising astronomers, Bennu spits plumes of dust into space (Mar 2019)

People can sense Earth’s magnetic field, brain waves suggest (Mar 2019)

Ultraprecise atomic clocks put Einstein’s special relativity to the test (Mar 2019)

Stroke victims with busy immune responses may also see mental declines (Mar 2019)

The ‘roof of the world’ was raised more recently than once thought (Mar 2019)

A second HIV patient has gone into remission after a stem cell transplant (Mar 2019)

Hidden ancient neutrinos may shape the patterns of galaxies (Mar 2019)

Sleeping in on the weekend can’t make up for lost sleep (Mar 2019)

A long handshake can spread your DNA to objects you didn’t touch (Feb 2019)

Supernovas show the universe expands at the same rate in all directions (Feb 2019)

Why kids may be at risk from vinyl floors and fire-resistant couches (Feb 2019)

Tooth plaque shows drinking milk goes back 3,000 years in Mongolia (Feb 2019)

Why some Georgia O’Keeffe paintings have ‘art acne’ (Feb 2019)

Climate change could increase foodborne illness by energizing flies (Feb 2019)

Photons reveal a weird effect called the quantum pigeonhole paradox (Feb 2019)

Collapsing ice cliffs may not contribute to sea level rise (Feb 2019)

A space rock collision may explain how this exoplanet was born (Feb 2019)

DNA from extinct red wolves lives on in some mysterious Texas coyotes (Feb 2019)

Lasers could send messages right to a listener’s ear (Feb 2019)

Climate change might not slow ocean circulation as much as thought (Jan 2019)

The latest picture of Ultima Thule reveals a remarkably smooth face (Jan 2019)

Earth’s core may have hardened just in time to save its magnetic field (Jan 2019)

Being messy on the inside keeps metamaterials from folding under stress (Jan 2019)

This honeybee parasite may be more of a fat stealer than a bloodsucker (Jan 2019)

Prosecco production takes a toll on northeast Italy’s environment (Jan 2019)

A cosmic flare called the ‘Cow’ may reveal a new way that stars die (Jan 2019)

Desalination pours more toxic brine into the ocean than previously thought (Jan 2019)

Nerve cells from people with autism grow unusually big and fast (Jan 2019)

A protein in mosquito eggshells could be the insects’ Achilles’ heel (Jan 2019)

A weird type of zirconium soaks up neutrons like a sponge (Jan 2019)

Satellites make mapping hot spots of ammonia pollution easier (Jan 2019)

A new implant uses light to control overactive bladders (Jan 2019)

New Horizons shows Ultima Thule looks like a snowman, or maybe BB-8 (Jan 2019)

This scientist watches meat rot to decipher the Neandertal diet (Jan 2019)