A magnetic trap captures elusive ultracold plasma
In terms of difficulty, trapping a plasma is right up there with catching a cloud and pinning it down, or holding a moonbeam in...
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To understand how ‘night-shining’ clouds form, scientists made one themselves
NASA’s Super Soaker mission was basically an extreme DIY project: To better understand how noctilucent, or night-shining clouds form, researchers made one from scratch....
Andromeda’s and the Milky Way’s black holes will collide. Here’s how it may play out
The supermassive black holes at the centers of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are doomed to engulf each other in an ill-fated cosmological...
COVID-19 has exacerbated a troubling U.S. health trend: premature deaths
There is no good time for a pandemic, but COVID-19 hit the United States as a public health crisis was well under way. The...
Most pro athletes who got COVID-19 didn’t develop heart inflammation
Most professional athletes who got COVID-19 didn’t suffer heart damage from it, a new study suggests. Researchers screened 789 players who had tested positive...
Female green tree frogs have noise-canceling lungs that help them hear mates
To find her mate amidst a cacophony of frog croaks, groans, squeaks and trills, a female green tree frog just needs to take a...
Catnip repels insects. Scientists may have finally found out how
A whiff of catnip can make mosquitoes buzz off, and now researchers know why. The active component of catnip (Nepeta cataria) repels insects by...
50 years ago, U.S. commercial whaling was coming to an end
Whale protection — Science News, March 6, 1971 Whaling by the single remaining United States whaling firm, the Del Monte Fishing Co. of San...
DNA databases are too white, so genetics doesn’t help everyone. How do we fix that?
It’s been two decades since the Human Genome Project first unveiled a rough draft of our genetic instruction book. The promise of that medical...
People who have had COVID-19 might need only one shot of a coronavirus vaccine
People who have already had COVID-19 — even if they didn’t show symptoms — may be able to get away with just a single...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? 
This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now