Before Apollo 11 landed, astronauts needed a map of the Moon

Only one person responded to a call for an absolutely critical mission

Timothy Swindle, University of Arizona

July 18, 2019

Neurons and cancer cells are a dangerous duo

Claudia Lopez, University of Pennsylvania

4 peer comments

July 16, 2019

Climate change is destroying ancient murals in Texas

July 14, 2019

Rear Admiral Amazing Grace Hopper taught computers English

Alyssa Shepard, The Scripps Research Institute

July 11, 2019

Bacteria from our guts have the tools to solve blood bank shortages

Lauren Sara McKee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

3 peer comments

July 8, 2019

"Paraben-free" products aren't safer than anything else

Emily Harari, UC Berkeley

July 2, 2019

Those few cigarette puffs during adolescence might have altered your brain

Constanza Paulina Silva Gallardo, Pennsylvania State University

1 peer comment

June 30, 2019

Loneliness is an epidemic, and we can turn to technology to fix it

Sophie Okolo, Health Technology

3 peer comments

June 26, 2019

Scientists have engineered a self-destruct button in bacteria

Molly Sargen, Harvard University

1 peer comment

June 24, 2019

60% of astronauts test positive for active herpes virus in space

Something about space brings out cold sores - what does it mean for people on Earth?

Mackenzie Thornbury, University of Montreal

2 peer comments

June 24, 2019

People trust scientists, says landmark survey, but there are troubling trends

Farah Qaiser, University of Toronto

June 21, 2019

CRISPR nanoparticles are the next big hope in Alzheimer’s disease treatments

Tara Fernandez, Cell Biology

June 20, 2019

The US-Mexico border is making life complicated for green sea turtles

Tim Briggs, Northeastern University

1 peer comment

June 18, 2019

Sister Miriam Michael Stimson turned early models of DNA inside out

Laura Mast, Georgia Institute of Technology

June 17, 2019

Sex isn't binary, and we should stop acting like it is

Liza Brusman, The Scripps Research Institute

June 14, 2019

You're eating, drinking, and breathing microplastics. Now what?

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

2 peer comments

June 14, 2019

There's no corner of the globe safe from microplastic pollution

Rebecca Dzombak, University of Michigan

2 peer comments

June 10, 2019

Testing drugs on stem cells in petri dishes may revolutionize our understanding of difficult-to-study diseases

Carina Seah, University of Southern California

4 peer comments

June 9, 2019

Alternative medicine could treat our maladies, but we have to study it

It is sorely lacking in rigorous scientific research

Song-My Hoang, University of Pittsburgh

3 peer comments

June 6, 2019

Bertha Parker, the first Native American archaeologist, taught herself how to excavate a site

Ashley Marranzino, University of Rhode Island

June 6, 2019

This year the flu came in two waves – here’s why

Patricia L. Foster, Indiana University

June 5, 2019

Meet Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya: the Russian mathematician who pushed through the Iron Curtain

Farah Qaiser, University of Toronto

June 3, 2019

By 2100, the ocean will be a different color

Maddie Bender, Yale University

June 2, 2019

Meet Marjory Stoneman Douglas, champion and savior of the Everglades

Jenny Howard, Wake Forest University

May 31, 2019

Listen to your parents when they tell you to tidy up: it's good for your brain

Ive Velikova, Neuroscience

1 peer comment

May 29, 2019

The 1919 solar eclipse experiment that confirmed relativity was built with sweat and hard, physical labor

Joshua Roebke, University of Texas at Austin

May 29, 2019

Evolution is elegant but not when it's in David Sloan Wilson's hands

Devang Mehta, University of Alberta

May 27, 2019

People with narcolepsy process humor differently

A good joke or sudden surprise can trigger muscle weakness

Quinn Eastman, Emory University

May 24, 2019

Microglia may be the missing clue to solve the opioid epidemic

Sara Whitestone, Université de Bordeaux

2 peer comments

May 23, 2019

Climate change is almost too big a problem to study. The solution? Volcanoes.

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

1 peer comment

May 21, 2019

Being a Pokémon Master in childhood permanently alters your brain

Hannah Thomasy, University of Washington

2 peer comments

May 20, 2019

Why parents should think twice about tracking apps for their kids

Joel Michael Reynolds, UMass Lowell

May 16, 2019

Neuroscience should take sex differences in the brain more seriously

Aarthi Gobinath, Neuroscience

7 peer comments

May 15, 2019

Biodiversity loss is the very real end of the world and no one is acting like it

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

4 peer comments

May 14, 2019

In the ruling against Caster Semenya, bogus science is being used to stifle the vulnerable

Sarah Laframboise, University of Ottawa

1 peer comment

May 13, 2019

Meet Nobel Prize winner Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, who let doctors see into your blood

Jordan Harrod, Harvard University

2 peer comments

May 12, 2019

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