Near-invincible tardigrades may see only in black and white
Next time you’re looking at a rainbow, be thankful you’re not a tardigrade. While the microscopic creatures, also known as water bears, are master...
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The tiny dot in this image may be the first look at exomoons in the making
New telescope images may provide the first view of moons forming outside the solar system. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile glimpsed a...
Why the CDC says it’s crucial to start wearing masks indoors again
Delta has changed the course of the pandemic in the United States yet again. After spurring a summer surge in COVID-19 cases, the more...
How some lizards breathe underwater
Some anole lizards have a newfound superpower: They can breathe underwater by trapping air in a bubble on their snouts. What’s more, these reptiles...
Why it’s still so hard to find treatments for early COVID-19
More than a year and a half into the pandemic, researchers are beginning to get a handle on how the coronavirus makes people sick...
A stunning visualization of Alaska’s Yukon Delta shows a land in transition
The westward journey of the mighty Yukon River takes it from its headwaters in Canada’s British Columbia straight across Alaska. The river has many...
‘Wild Souls’ explores what we owe animals in a human-dominated world
Wild SoulsEmma MarrisBloomsbury, $28 On the Arctic Ocean’s fringe, polar bears stand on ice thinning from human-caused climate change. Without thick ice from which...
3.42-billion-year-old fossil threads may be the oldest known archaea microbes
Threadlike filaments pressed in rock may be the remnants of archaea that burped methane near hydrothermal vents 3.42 billion years ago. If so, these...
With Steven Weinberg’s death, physics loses a titan
Mythology has its titans. So do the movies. And so does physics. Just one fewer now. Steven Weinberg died July 23, at the age...
What experts know so far about COVID-19 boosters for immunocompromised people
People with weak immune systems don’t always mount strong defenses against the coronavirus, even after being fully vaccinated. A third COVID-19 vaccine dose might...
Newborn screening for cancer risk could save lives. Should it be done? 
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