Two bonobos adopted infants outside their group, marking a first for great apes
Attentive parenting appears across the animal world, but adoption is rarer, especially when youngsters taken in aren’t kin. Now researchers have witnessed bonobos adopting...
SCIENTIFIC NEWS
We still don’t know for sure where the coronavirus came from. Here’s why
More than a year after the novel coronavirus had spread to all corners of the globe, officially becoming a pandemic, we still don’t know...
Coronavirus reinfections appear rare, especially in people younger than 65
Second bouts of COVID-19 are rare, though people 65 years and older may be at higher risk of reinfection than younger ones, a study...
50 years ago, researchers treated chronic pain with electricity
Fooling the brain — Science News, March 20, 1971 Chronic pain can be treated surgically by severing nerves or by destroying a small part...
Two new books investigate why it’s so hard to define life
If everything in the world had to be divided into two bins — one for living things and one for nonliving — the task...
A gargantuan supernova remnant looks 40 times as big as the full moon
A cloud of expanding gas in space is the largest supernova remnant ever seen in the sky, a new study confirms. The Milky Way...
Phosphorus for Earth’s earliest life may have been forged by lightning
One key ingredient for life thought to be delivered to Earth by meteorites may have been homemade after all. The phosphorus that went into...
Most of Mars’ missing water may lurk in its crust
An ocean’s worth of water may be lurking in minerals below Mars’ surface, which could help explain why the Red Planet dried up. Once...
A deadly fungus behind hospital outbreaks was found in nature for the first time
A deadly fungus that seemed to spring up out of nowhere in hospitals has been found in nature for the first time. Researchers isolated...
An ancient hippo-sized reptile may have been surprisingly agile
Some 260 million years ago, before the rise of dinosaurs, bone-crushing anteosaurs reigned as land’s largest predators. A new analysis of an anteosaur skull...
‘One step away from famine’: Inside Afghanistan’s hunger crisis 
Bangladesh: UNICEF chief calls for an end to child marriage 
Rule breaking by just a few people can be contagious 
Yemen war continues to force families from homes amid hunger and disease