This Hubble Space Telescope image of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) was taken on April 23, 2020. Last month, Comet ATLAS shattered skywatchers’ hopes of a brilliant display when it began crumbling — but scientists have spotted a new opportunity to…
If there’s a single clear note rising from the cacophony of coronavirus news, it’s that the pandemic will not end without a vaccine. Though dozens of vaccine candidates are in the works, some hopping through clinical trial phases at an…
Two residents of Snohomish County, Washington, who fell ill with COVID-19-like symptoms in December have now tested positive for antibodies against the new coronavirus. The findings suggest the virus might have arrived in the U.S. earlier than thought. One of…
In this episode of Life’s Little Mysteries, we’ll take a closer look at dreams that terrify: nightmares. What causes nightmares, and does everybody have them? What can you do to prevent nightmares? And if you’re caught in the middle of…
An image taken by James Carpenter, an American Museum of Natural History researcher and coauthor of the new paper, shows the distinctive face of a murder hornet. So-called “murder hornets” have arrived in the United States. The Asian giant hornet…
Reconstruction of the Cretaceous marine animal Marsupites testudinarius. Weird, multisided geometric shapes called buckyballs have been discovered in an unexpected place: marine animals that lived 80