To understand neutrinos, it pays to be small-minded. The subatomic particles are so lightweight, they’re almost massless. They’re a tiny fraction of the mass of…
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The continuing battle over pot — Science News, April 24,1971 The White House Conference on Youth voted to legalize the sale of grass (with restrictions).…
Editor’s note: This story will be updated periodically. A helicopter just flew on Mars. NASA’s Ingenuity hovered for about 40 seconds above the Red Planet’s…
Science on a MissionNaomi OreskesUniv. of Chicago, $40 In 2004, Japanese scientists captured the first underwater images of a live giant squid, a near-mythical, deep-ocean…
Evidence is building that an uncommon immune response is behind dangerous, but incredibly rare, blood clots associated with some COVID-19 vaccines. But the good news…
Helium: Should it be conserved? — Science News, April 17, 1971 To avoid some of the loss and provide a stockpile against future needs, the…
As our planet orbits the sun, it swoops through clouds of extraterrestrial dust — and several thousand metric tons of that material actually reaches Earth’s…
Efforts to promote equity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering and math have a long way to go, a new report suggests. Over the last…
As climate change brings more wildfires to the western United States, a rare fungal infection has also been on the rise. Valley fever is up…
Wind energy is surging in the United States. In 2020, turbines generated about 8 percent of the country’s electricity — roughly 50 times the share…