Medicine
Resistance to Last-Ditch Antibiotic Has Spread Farther Than Anticipated
Emergence of colistin resistance in farm animals around the world takes researchers by surprise
Stories by Nature
Public Health
Bats Are Global Reservoir for Deadly Coronaviruses
Finding could help researchers to better predict where these viruses are likely to make the jump from animals to people
Computing
Shining a Light on the Dark Corners of the Web
Cybercrime researcher Gianluca Stringhini explains how he studies hate speech and fake news on the underground network 4chan
Math
The Mathematicians Who Want to Save Democracy
With algorithms in hand, scientists try to make U.S. elections more representative
Climate
How Scientists Reacted to the U.S. Leaving the Paris Climate Agreement
What the U.S.'s departure from the historic pact means for efforts to fight global warming
Biology
Biodiversity Is More Than Just Counting Species
Ecologists are increasingly looking at how richness of traits — rather than number of species — helps set the health of ecosystems
Space
Juno Reveals Jupiter's Deep Secrets
Plumes of ammonia and quirky magnetic fields are among the surprises from the spacecraft’s first science results
Public Health
China Expands DNA Data Grab in Troubled Western Region
Alarms raised over suspected efforts to collect massive numbers of genetic samples from citizens
Policy & Ethics
Trump Budget Would Slash Science Programs across Government
Cuts include 18 percent at the National Institutes of Health and 30 percent at the Environmental Protection Agency
Environment
Trees in Eastern U.S. Head West as Climate Changes
Breaking from the general poleward movement of many species, flowering trees take an unexpected turn
Biology
Geneticists Enlist Engineered Virus and CRISPR to Battle Citrus Disease
Desperate farmers hope scientists can beat pathogen that is wrecking the US orange harvest
Policy & Ethics
Revamped "Anti-Science" Education Bills in U.S. Find Success
Legislation urges educators to "teach the controversy" and allows citizens to challenge curricula
Evolution
Fossil of Oldest-Known Baleen Whale Relative Unearthed in Peru
Skeleton from South America enables paleontologists to piece together the puzzle of baleen whale evolution
Mental Health
Former U.S. Mental Health Chief Leaves Google
Tom Insel will launch his own company to analyze behavior and mental illness using smartphone data
Space
Ghana Telescope Heralds First Pan-African Array
By converting a defunct communications dish, astronomers are breaking ground on Earth and beyond
Medicine
Can Zapping the Vagus Nerve Jump-Start Immunity?
An experimental procedure is exposing links between nervous and immune systems
Arts & Culture
Dreams of the Stone Age Dated for First Time in Southern Africa
Ancient rock art research could piece together how the peoples who lived in the region some 5,700 years ago interacted
Computing
Europe Set to Invest in Quantum Tech
A billion-euro, 10-year “Quantum Technology Flagship” project will pursue advances in sensors, communications and computing
Evolution
Mining Threatens Chinese Fossil Site That Revealed Planet's Earliest Animals
Protests sparked by the destruction of three key fossil-hunting areas result in a temporary halt of phosphate mining
Physics
Physicists Excited by Latest LHC Anomaly
A series of odd findings have theorists hoping for new particles
