Here are the most promising coronavirus vaccine candidates out there By Yasemin Saplakoglu Scientists around the world are creating dozens of unique vaccine candidates to fight the novel coronavirus — and they're doing it at unprecedented speeds.
Arecibo radio telescope, damaged beyond repair, seen from space By Chelsea Gohd Satellites spotted gashes in the damaged Arecibo Observatory, which will be decommissioned.
Spacecraft with precious asteroid cargo is almost home after 3 billion-mile trek By Michelle Starr On Dec. 6, 2020, after six years in space, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 spacecraft will finally return to Earth.
The world's newest monkey species was found in a lab, not on an expedition By Tracie McKinney The discovery of the Popa langur, a medium-sized leaf-eating monkey found in central Myanmar, was recently announced by scientists.
Roman-era Egyptian child mummy scanned with laser-like precision By Mindy Weisberger High-energy X-ray scans of an intact Egyptian mummy mapped a detailed glimpse of the bones and objects inside.
2 of Darwin's famous notebooks, including iconic 'Tree of Life' sketch, are missing By Laura Geggel Two notebooks Darwin filled after his HMS Beagle expedition are missing, possibly stolen.
Who set up this mysterious metal monolith in Utah desert? (It's not aliens.) By Stephanie Pappas Who embedded a 10-foot-tall metal monolith in the remote Utah desert?
SARS-CoV-2 relative found lurking in frozen bats from Cambodia By Nicoletta Lanese For the first time, close relatives of the novel coronavirus have been found outside China.
Americans celebrated Thanksgiving during a pandemic before. Here's what happened. By Brandon Specktor How did Americans celebrate the holidays during the influenza pandemic of 1918? With a lot of partying, turns out.
Physicists could do the 'impossible': Create and destroy magnetic fields from afar By Stephanie Pappas The ability to cancel and induce magnetic fields from a distance could improve biomedicine.
Is belief in God a delusion? By Ryan McKay, Robert Ross As the pandemic raged in April, churchgoers in Ohio defied warnings not to congregate. But what do psychologists have to say about strong beliefs in a god?
Faint 'super-planet' discovered by radio telescope for the 1st time By Samantha Mathewson Scientists have discovered a cold, faint "super-planet" that has remained elusive to traditional infrared survey methods.
Hubble captures a black hole's 'shadow beams,' yawning across space By Michelle Starr In images from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have spotted an entirely new phenomenon.
Stratolaunch starts building Talon hypersonic plane for Mach 6 flights By Elizabeth Howell Stratolaunch has started construction on a prototype of a Mach 6 vehicle designed to launch from the world's biggest airplane.
Crested rats can kill with their poisonous fur By Mindy Weisberger Rabbit-size rats from Eastern Africa are the only mammals on Earth that gain a poison defense from plants.
China launches historic Chang'e 5 mission to collect the first moon samples since 1976 By Mike Wall The first lunar sample-return mission since the 1970s is underway.
Man's 'heart attack' was really side effect from swallowed battery By Ashley P. Taylor Whether or not it affects the heart, eating batteries is dangerous.
Oxford COVID-19 vaccine up to 90% effective (with the right dose) By Yasemin Saplakoglu A third major coronavirus vaccine candidate has revealed promising results in late-stage trials.
Pinwheel Cave rock art in California may depict hallucinogenic 'trance flower' By Laura Geggel Starting about 400 years ago, Indigenous people in California had hallucinogenic ceremonies in a cave by Santa Barbara.
Rebuilding Notre Dame will be incredibly hard By Stephanie Pappas A new documentary from NOVA shows the delicate and difficult work of restoring the Notre Dame Cathedral after the April 2019 fire that destroyed its roof.
