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New science stories every week, written by scientists themselves

Deborah Jin engineered new quantum states of matter — twice

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According to colleague Kathryn J. Levin, Jin "probably would have gotten the Nobel"

Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Racial injustice causes Black Americans to age faster than whites

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Nicole Van Groningen, Cedars-Sinai Hospital

Comment 2 peer comments

Why cultivated meat is about to have its Tesla Roadster moment

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Daan Luining, Molecular Biology

'Hyper urban' coyote genomes are growing apart from their city and rural cousins

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Jaime Chambers, Washington State University

Comment 2 peer comments

A viper's zig-zag colors help blur their predators' vision

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Sam Zlotnik, University of Florida

Comment 3 peer comments

Cervical mucus is an unsung indicator of women's health

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Lauren J. Young

US prisons are an experiment that lets COVID-19 run wild

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Science Friday

Scientists put visions of letters in blind people's brains

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Meredith Schmehl, Duke University

Comment 6 peer comments

Paralyzed man has sense of touch restored by brain-machine interface

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Hayden Kee, Fordham University

Comment 2 peer comments

Museums and summer camps are excluding non-white people

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Unbarred by school district lines, informal science education isn't equally accessible

Kristen Vogt Veggeberg, University of Illinois at Chicago

Scientists unmask a virus that mimicked human RNA and hit on a potential vaccine

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Ankita Arora, University of Colorado

Comment 3 peer comments

The banana as we know it is going extinct. Could gene editing save it?

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Frank Swain

Meet Lynnae Quick, NASA's hunter of space cryomagma

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Maryam Zaringhalam, Molecular Biology

Two mini microscopes watched a mouse’s brain move its body in real time

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Sruthi Sanjeev Balakrishnan, National Centre for Biological Sciences

Comment 6 peer comments

Yes, you can put a price on nature. Doing so could stop environmental destruction

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Vanessa Vieites, Florida International University

How deadly is COVID-19? A biostatistician answers

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Ronald D. Fricker, Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Shy sea lions may have a better shot at survival than their rambunctious siblings

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Fernanda Ruiz Fadel, Advanced Identification Methods GmbH

Comment 2 peer comments

Climate change is toppling tree frogs from rainforest canopies

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Joan Meiners, Ecology

What would it be like to grow up as the first mammoth-elephant hybrid?

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Meet Greta, the loneliest creature in the world

Britt Wray

The sugar in semen makes HIV drugs less effective

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Marnie Willman, University of Manitoba Bannatyne

Comment 3 peer comments

Sexual rivalries are how you evolve antlers, pincers, and tusks

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Kendall Powell, Knowable Magazine

Narwhal DNA captured a survival story the last time the glaciers melted

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Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Widespread PFAS chemical pollution will likely make COVID-19 worse

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Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

Comment 2 peer comments

Drug repurposing gave remdesivir its second, third, and fourth chance

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Brittney G. Borowiec, Wilfrid Laurier University

Comment 3 peer comments

What are the advantages of an mRNA vaccine for COVID-19?

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Joshua Peters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Comment 1 peer comment

Antibiotics in fish farming create resistance and are an animal welfare disaster. It’s time for a change

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Lauren Sara McKee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Comment 2 peer comments

Why don't banana-flavored candies taste like bananas?

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Johanna Mayer

Albatrosses can spy on illegal fishing in international waters

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But could satellite-tagging further endanger these seabirds?

Ashley Marranzino, University of Rhode Island

Comment 2 peer comments

Here's how to make health technology accessible to everyone

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Sophie Okolo, Health Technology

Comment 2 peer comments

Rapid DNA sequencing of unknown bacteria helps doctors choose which antibiotics to treat it with

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Allison J Matthews, Tufts University

Los datos producidos por los científicos no llegan a la gente que los necesita

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Maria Gatta, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Mount St. Helens is a natural laboratory for studying how ecosystems recover from disasters — but a road threatens to ruin those efforts

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Eric Wagner, High Country News

A smell test can predict whether unresponsive patients will recover

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Thiago Arzua, Medical College of Wisconsin

Comment 3 peer comments

Science thinks it's unbiased. Queer scientists know that's not true

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Liza Brusman, University of Colorado, Boulder

Lasers can help us detect viruses faster than typical medical tests

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Katherine McCormick, University of Washington

What makes something smell good or bad?

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Weihong Lin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Rakaia Kenney, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Kayla Lemons, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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