These devices use an electric field to scare sharks from fishing hooks
A new gadget takes advantage of sharks’ sixth sense to send the fish scurrying away from deadly hooks. Sharks, rays and their relatives can...
Carvings on Australia’s boab trees reveal a generation’s lost history
Brenda Garstone is on the hunt for her heritage. Parts of her cultural inheritance are scattered across the Tanami desert in northwestern Australia, where...
Louis Pasteur’s devotion to truth transformed what we know about health and disease
Great scientists become immortalized in various ways. Some through names for obscure units of measurement (à la Hertz, Faraday and Curie). Others in elements...
Some Maya rulers may have taken generations to attract subjects
Commoners may have played an unappreciated part in the rise of an ancient Maya royal dynasty. Self-described “divine lords” at a Maya site called...
UAE enhances attractiveness as a preferred destination
For people looking to relocate and work there in the year 2022, the UAE has solidified its place as one of the most desirable...
At a long COVID clinic, here’s how doctors are trying to help one woman who is struggling
Listen to this story about long COVID realities Click here for a full audio version of this story, read by Science News staff writer...
The pristine Winchcombe meteorite suggests that Earth’s water came from asteroids
Late in the evening of February 28, 2021, a coal-dark space rock about the size of a soccer ball fell through the sky over...
UAE is a committed partner for climate actions: US Secretary of Agriculture
The UAE is a strong and committed partner for climate action, and it is in their very best interests to steer climate-smart agriculture and...
COP27 Fiddling as World Warms
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 15 (IPS) – The latest annual climate conference has begun in the face of a worsening climate crisis and further...
Three Truths to Address Sexual Exploitation, Abuse & Harassment in the UN
NEW YORK, Nov 15 (IPS) – The U.S. Government has recently published ‘Engagement Principles’ on Protection from Sexual Exploitation Abuse & Sexual Harassment within...
Prairie voles can find partners just fine without the ‘love hormone’ oxytocin 
Mysterious marks on Ice Age cave art may have been a form of record keeping 
It’s possible to reach net-zero carbon emissions. Here’s how 
Birds that dive may be at greater risk of extinction