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Genetics reveal the origin story of East Asia’s favorit...

The origin of red beans — also called adzuki — has been murky. A new study says ...

Want to eat healthier? Add to your diet, rather than li...

Nutrition experts say add more greens and beans to your diet; cooking classes ca...

Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis

Tiny, newly formed tumors shed small fragments of DNA that are swept into the bl...

50 years after ‘Jaws,’ sharks face their own terror

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The heal...

U.S. seal populations have rebounded — and so have thei...

Alix Morris’s new book, A Year with the Seals, explores humans’ complicated rela...

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As Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary, Science News explores the vast range of...

Summer is a great time to protect your hearing

Concerts, fireworks and other hallmarks of summer can hurt your hearing long-ter...

A Supreme Court ruling on nuclear waste spotlights U.S....

Court ruling allows interim nuclear waste storage in Texas, but the U.S. still h...

This moth species may use the Milky Way as its guiding ...

Bogong moths migrate up to 1,000 kilometers from Australian plains to mountain c...

‘Dragon Man’ skull may be the first from an enigmatic h...

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most co...

Baby’s First Words Crossword

Solve our latest interactive crossword. We'll publish science-themed crosswords...

How attacks on evolution in classrooms have shifted ove...

Since the Scopes trial in 1925, Science News has reported on legislative attempt...

Is nuclear energy good? A new book explores this comple...

Atomic Dreams explores nuclear energy's future in the U.S. through the history o...

Fewer scavengers could mean more zoonotic disease

Scavenger populations are decreasing, a new study shows. That could put human he...

100 years after the Scopes trial, science is still unde...

In 1925, John Scopes was indicted for teaching evolution. Science News looks at ...

Black hole–shredded megastars power a new class of cosm...

These explosions, called extreme nuclear transients, shine for longer than typic...