River Ecosystem Restoration Can Mean Just Add Water
Planners returned water to Arizona's Santa Cruz River's dry bed in 2019, and various species began showing up the same day.
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Old Seaweed Reveals Secret of Monterey Sardine History
Decades-old specimens solve a long-standing mystery
Play Helped Dogs Be Our Best Friends
The ancestors of today’s dogs already exhibited some playfulness, which became a key trait during domestication.
Bundles of Plant-Water-Transportation Cells Resemble Snake Eyes
A microscopic image reveals a plant’s vascular system
Nobelist Talks CRISPR Uses
New Nobel laureate in chemistry Jennifer Doudna talks about various applications of the gene-editing tool CRISPR.
New Nobel Laureate Talks Today’s Virology
Charles Rice, who today shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, talked about how rapidly research now occurs, compared with his early work...
Discovery of Hepatitis C Snags Nobel Prize in Medicine
Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice share the award for identifying the virus behind the blood-borne liver disease
The Moss That Lives under a Rock
If you lived in a desert, you’d probably want to live under a rock, too
Structure and Chemistry Dictate How Cicada Wings Repel Water and Kill Bacteria
A new analytical process shows how chemicals affect the nanostructures of an insect’s wings
Dinosaurs Got Cancer, Too
Researchers seeking evidence for cancer in dinosaurs found it in a collection of bones at a paleontology museum in Alberta.
Deadly Spread of Some Cancers May Be Driven by a Common Mouth Microbe
An ordinary bacterium can trigger changes in some primary tumors that lead to dangerous metastasis
Study Sequences 100 Tomato Varieties
New research catalogues tomatoes’ genetic variation
Fish Eggs Survive Journey through a Duck
New research suggests one way fish might spread to distant waters
Fruit Flies Plug into the Matrix
A new budget-friendly virtual-reality system helps researchers study the brains of small animals
Fluttering Feathers Could Spawn New Species
Fork-tailed flycatchers make a fluttering sound with their wings—but separate subspecies have different “dialects” of fluttering. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Bird Brains Are Far More Humanlike Than Once Thought
The avian cortex had been hiding in plain sight all along. Humans were just too birdbrained to see it
Is There Life on Venus? These Missions Could Find It
Following a tantalizing discovery, these spacecraft could be headed to Earth’s twisted twin in search of the truth
Science News from around the World
Here are some brief reports about science and technology from all over, including one from Israel about what DNA reveals about the Dead Sea Scrolls’ parchment.
These Small Mammals Snort to a Different Tune
Hyraxes, which live in Africa and the Middle East, punctuate their songs with snorts. And the snorts appear to reflect the animals’ emotional state. Jason G. Goldman reports.
This ‘Small World’ Is Packed with Animated Beauty
Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition captures creatures and forces that are invisible to the naked eye.
