As Every Version of You opens, New Year’s Eve is being celebrated in a virtual utopia akinbostanci/Getty The sky’s all wrong tonight. Oversaturated blue, it pixelates at the horizon into streaky seawater, and is hole-punched by the sun sinking towards its bloated reflection. The tide beats against the shore. One, two, three up the sand….
Fall is a grueling time of year for some families, as many start to consider where their child will go to school the following year. A lot of families opt for the school they are zoned or assigned to, but others, depending on their district or personal preferences, may consider different public, charter or private…
Claire North’s Slow Gods follows a deep-space pilot Shutterstock/Vadim Sadovski We’ll need to get our skates on if we’re to keep up with all the new science fiction published in November. New Scientist sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson is adamant that we must read Claire North’s Slow Gods, and I’m inclined to take her at…
October 30, 2025 3 min read Glowing Sperm Reveals How Female Mosquitos Control Sex Female Aedes mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia By Mariana Lenharo & Nature magazine Sex between Aedes aegypti mosquitoes lasts about 14 seconds. Jacopo Razzauti/The Rockefeller University Female mosquitoes that transmit dengue and other diseases are…
Faecal bacteria viewed with an electron microscope Science Photo Library / Alamy Stock Photo Rats given gut microbiome transplants from exuberant human toddlers seem to be more willing to explore their environment. This finding hints that the bacteria inhabiting our guts when we are children play a role in shaping our personalities. “It suggests our…
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will launch a review of the safety of the abortion pill, mifepristone. Health researchers say they’re concerned that the review will be politicized and based on flawed reports. More than 100 studies published over the past…
The bulletproof fabric is both lightweight and strong Jin Zhang Group, Peking University A new material is so strong that just a 1.8-millimetre-thick sheet of it could stop a bullet, making it far stronger than Kevlar and possibly the strongest fabric ever made. Bulletproof vests work by spreading the energy of a projectile through a…
Rachel Feltman: Happy Halloween, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Halloween is pretty much my favorite holiday. That’s mostly because of the crisp autumn weather and the spooky vibes, but I certainly don’t mind an excuse to eat way, way more candy than usual. But what does this annual sugar splurge mean…
Illustration of a teenage girl who is the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father JOHN BAVARO FINE ART/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY For only the second time, researchers have obtained the full genome of a Denisovan, a group of ancient humans who lived in Asia. The DNA was extracted from a single 200,000-year-old tooth found…
Meghan Rosen is a senior writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology with an emphasis in biotechnology from the University of California, Davis, and later graduated from the science communication program at UC Santa Cruz.
