Simple hand-built structures can help streams survive wildfires and drought
Wearing waders and work gloves, three dozen employees from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service stood at a small creek amid...
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A gene defect may make rabbits do handstands instead of hop
One defective gene might turn some bunnies’ hops into handstands, a new study suggests. To move quickly, a breed of domesticated rabbit called sauteur...
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine holds up in an updated analysis of trial data
Analysis of the latest data from a clinical trial for a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford shows the shot...
A plant gene may have helped whiteflies become a major pest
At some point between 35 million and 80 million years ago, a whitefly landed on a leaf and started sucking its sweet sap. That...
Octopus sleep includes a frenzied, colorful, ‘active’ stage
Octopuses cycle through two stages of slumber, a new study reports. First comes quiet sleep, and then a shift to a twitchy, active sleep...
50 years ago, experiments hinted at the possibility of life on Mars
Organics on Mars — Science News, March 27, 1971 [Researchers] have exposed a mixture of gases simulating conditions believed to exist on the surface...
How using sheepskin for legal papers may have prevented fraud
Fraudulent efforts to tweak legal documents in Great Britain may have been thwarted by the very parchment those documents were written on, a new...
Atomic clocks take a step toward redefining the second
A new measurement moves scientists closer to revamping how we keep time. After scientists redefined the unit of mass, the kilogram, in 2019, they...
A new black hole image reveals the behemoth’s magnetic fields
Astronomers have gotten their first glimpse of the magnetic fields tangled around a black hole. The Event Horizon Telescope has unveiled the magnetism of...
The dark matter mystery deepens with the demise of a reported detection
First of two parts In mystery stories, the chief suspect almost always gets exonerated before the end of the book. Typically because a key...
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Yemen escalation fuels fears of further cholera, measles spread 
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