Stories by Andrea Tamayo

The moss Physcomitrium patens joins tardigrades and thale-cress as a species that has survived in space

Thousands of years ago, a space rock hit what is now China, leaving a bowl-shaped crater some 900 meters wide

Researchers simulated the effects that different web decorations had on vibrations, adding fresh insight to a decades-old debate about the function of these structures

Disease-causing bacteria that have been recently discovered in the teeth of Napoleonic soldiers may have spurred the massive infantry’s demise during its retreat from Russia

Wyoming’s “dinosaur mummies,” once thought to preserve fossilized flesh, are actually detailed clay molds formed by microbes as the creatures decayed

Nearly 100 years ago dozens of ships were abandoned in a shallow bay in the Potomac River. Today plants and animals are thriving on the skeletons of these vessels

Three vaccines were on the agenda for this week’s meeting of ACIP, the CDC’s key advisory panel on immunization: the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccine, the hepatitis B vaccine and COVID vaccines

Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have spotted a moon nestled near Uranus’s rings that’s so small you could walk around it

An ongoing civil war in Sudan has forced millions of people to flee their homes and move to camps, where a lack of water and sanitation infrastructure, along with heavy rains, are fueling a massive cholera outbreak. What role does the environment play in how the outbreak is spreading?

Today this material can seal pipes and brave the ocean. But someday it could be used in surgery or underwater repairs

A devastating bacterium has decimated populations of sunflower sea stars, predators that play a crucial role in their environment

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon called true polar wander