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Social connections in female giraffes are shown to be a strong predictor of decreased mortality.

A link is found between the fungal population in a human’s gut and the immune system’s response to fungal infections. This sheds light on potential preventative treatments against these dangerous fungal infections.

by Wei Lifigures by Wei Wu Trigger warning: this article contains mentions of suicide. What do the lead scientists behind the COVID-19 vaccine, the current first lady of the United States, and the students at Science in the News have in common?…

A New Zealand reptile carries an extra set of genes in its mitochondria that may help it adapt to cold temperatures.

What's in that sourdough starter? New research sheds light on the mysterious microbes that influence our bread.

Manasvi Verma, 1st year PhD student in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program at Harvard Medical School. Jovana Andrejevic is a fifth-year Applied Physics Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. …

John Dabiri Those of us privileged enough to frequent aquariums have probably experienced the physical inability to move past the illuminated jellyfish enclosures. Something about their mesmerizing movements holds us captive. Most of us, however,…

How do you introduce yourself, scientifically? I generally say that I’m an astronomer. More specifically, I’m an exoplanet astronomer, meaning I study planets that exist around other stars. In our solar system, all the planets orbit the Sun. I’m…

Climate models have long been reliant on information from cloud interactions with ship exhaust; however, new research shows this may not tell the whole story

New data-driven RNA simulations allow scientists to observe twisting and folding in real time.