Science

How much water should you drink a day? It depends on se...

A study of more than 5,000 people in 23 countries finds that individual water ne...

Viruses other than the coronavirus made headlines in 2022

Here’s the latest on monkeypox, Ebola, bird flu and other outbreaks that hit thi...

Why pandemic fatigue and COVID-19 burnout took over in ...

As public health guidelines loosened this year, people were left to weigh COVID-...

50 years ago, physicists found the speed of light

In the 1970s, scientists set a new maximum speed limit for light. Fifty years la...

Brief bursts of activity offer health benefits for peop...

Non-exercisers who had brief bouts of vigorous day-to-day activity saw a reduced...

How to make tiny metal snowflakes

In a pool of molten gallium, researchers grew symmetrical, hexagonal zinc nanost...

The metric system is growing. Here’s what you need to know

Science News spoke with a metrologist about the metric system’s latest update, w...

A bizarre gamma-ray burst breaks the rules for these co...

The 50-second gamma-ray burst is the first that unambiguously breaks the rule th...

In 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope brought us new ...

Science News looks back at some of the most stunning images from the James Webb ...

The ancestor to modern brewing yeast has been found hid...

Previously found in Patagonia and elsewhere, the brewing yeast Saccharomyces eub...

Armored dinos may have used their tail clubs to bludgeo...

Broken and healed spikes on Zuul's flanks are consistent with the armored beast ...

A parasite makes wolves more likely to become pack leaders

In Yellowstone National Park, gray wolves infected with Toxoplasma gondii make r...

These are our favorite science books of 2022

Books about dinosaurs, the Milky Way and the coronavirus are among the Science N...

A new book asks: What makes humans call some animals pe...

In an interview with Science News, science journalist Bethany Brookshire discuss...

A natural gene drive could steer invasive rodents on is...

A few genetic tweaks to a readily passed-on chunk of DNA could sterilize a mouse...

Homo naledi may have lit fires in underground caves at ...

Homo naledi may have joined the group of ancient hominids who built controlled f...

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