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Science Newsby Jake Buehler18 Aug 2026
This nose grows. During harsh Japanese winters, long-clawed shrews’ snouts temporarily expand. The seasonal swelling is the opposite of the previously known winter pattern in shrews, in which the...
Science Newsby Tina Hesman Saey18 Aug 2026
Note: Slight spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. A plot device in the new Spider-Man movie is real-world science.
Science Newsby Jake Buehler17 Aug 2026
Not all slime is created equal. A species of land snails tweaks its slime’s chemical recipe to create five different varieties of mucus, using each for a particular job.
Science Newsby Meghan Rosen17 Aug 2026
The COVID-19 vaccine may give brain cancer patients a bonus shot at survival. Patients who received the vaccine within 100 days before biopsy or tumor surgery lived twice as long as those who...
Science Newsby Erin Garcia de Jesús14 Aug 2026
Rain may bring disease-carrying mosquitoes. But the lack of it could have been a factor that led to the first urban yellow fever outbreak in Brazil in decades.
Science Newsby Brendan Pierson14 Aug 2026
Necrotizing enterocolitis, a life-threatening inflammation of the intestine that mostly affects premature babies, can strike with almost no warning.
Science Newsby Erin Garcia de Jesús14 Aug 2026
In The Sheep Detectives, Mopple has a superpower: The anthropomorphic sheep can’t forget anything.
Science Newsby Emily Conover13 Aug 2026
A key facet of a proton’s identity can be traced to the glue that holds it together. A new study suggests that a property called the baryon number — a defining characteristic of protons and related...
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