About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Earth and the planet suddenly went dark. The impact and its aftermath were catastrophic. Tsunamis inundated coastlines, earthquakes rattled the ground, acid rain poured from the skies and wildfires scorched the terrain. Roughly 75 percent of species, including all nonavian dinosaurs, went extinct. That day…
November 21, 2025 2 min read Iran’s Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological Catastrophe The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame By Humberto Basilio edited by Claire Cameron A dry water feature in Tehran on…
The Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica NASA/ZUMA Wire/Shutterstock Underwater “storms” are melting the ice shelf protecting the Thwaites “doomsday” glacier in Antarctica, raising concerns that we could be underestimating future sea level rise. Up to 10 kilometres wide – making them “submesoscale” features – these storm-like vortices start swirling when waters of different density or…
When the United States faced the looming threat of World War II in the 1930s, it bet big on science — and won. The nation invested billions of dollars in research at universities and in industry. That influx of funds led to multiple advances in weaponry, including the atom bomb. Less morally fraught innovations included radar, computer…
What Blind Cave Fish and Venomous Snails Can Teach Us about Diabetes Studies of insulin, blood sugar and diabetes in other animals such as fish and dogs have already saved millions of lives and could lead to new treatments for type 1 and type 2 diabetes. By Tom Lum edited by Kelso Harper This video…
Artist’s impression of a field of Population III stars 100 million years after the big bang NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/M. Zamani The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine distant galaxies in the far reaches of the early universe for the first time. Some of these have chemical signatures that seem to point…
New scientific findings come out every day. Often, people only learn about the researchers behind some of these discoveries years or decades later when they win a Nobel Prize. We think you should know about them much sooner. This year, Science News is highlighting five early- and mid-career scientists as part of our Scientists to…
November 20, 2025 2 min read Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year, affecting some 74,000 participants By Dan Vergano edited by Claire Cameron Mark Wilson/Newsmakers/Getty Sickle cell disease, sleep…
The possible turtle tracks at Monte Cònero, Italy Paolo Sandroni Strange impressions in a rock face in Italy may have been left by a stampede of sea turtles disturbed by an earthquake around 83 million years ago. Free climbers discovered the unusual features in an area that is off limits to the public on the…
Is your face a glazed doughnut or a dewy dumpling? I don’t mean which of these foods are stuck on your face. Instead, these are all recent skin care trends, which, despite some key differences, share a similarity beyond their gastronomically delightful nomenclature: the popular belief that skin should glow. It should be radiant, lustrous,…
