Science

Nature, Published online: 27 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01256-5Genomic analysis suggests that the outbreak probably began in December or January, but a shortage of data is hampering efforts to pin down the source. [...]

Inexpensive Chinese solar panels are pitting Americans who want cheap equipment against those who want to make it [...]

Researchers might have located the birthplace of 469219 Kamo‘oalewa, a small asteroid that has been described as Earth’s “mini-moon.” The post Earth’s Mini-Moon Linked to Farside Lunar Crater appeared first on Sky & Telescope. [...]

H5N1 influenza virus particles have been detected in commercially sold milk, but it’s not clear how the virus is spreading in cattle or whether their milk could infect humans [...]

Research suggests that people tend to exaggerate how critically they will be viewed if they reveal negative information about themselves to others [...]

Here’s what a chef, a vet and two anthropologists have to say about eating periodical cicadas [...]

Someday an unlucky outburst from our sun could strike Earth and fry most of our electronics—and we’ve already had some too-close-for-comfort near misses [...]

Ahead of a project to spray carbon dioxide into jungle plots, researchers contemplate what its results might signal about the forest’s future. [...]

Study finds surprisingly harmful fabrications in OpenAI’s speech-to-text algorithm [...]

The Periodic Table of Food aims to detail molecular contents of food crops and animals [...]

Nature, Published online: 26 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01251-wNew research is revealing the mechanisms linking loneliness and conditions like dementia, depression and cardiovascular disease. [...]

Nature, Published online: 26 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01229-8Researchers from several disciplines hope to predict — and prevent — scenarios that pose risks to humanity. [...]

Nature, Published online: 26 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01257-4Moving to non-profit work requires researchers to shift their mindset to focus on applied science for policymaking and conservation practice. [...]

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore (left) and Suni Williams (right) pose by their mission patch following their arrival at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in the run-up to the Starliner Crew Flight Test on May 6. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now For the first time since the end of the shuttle program, a trio [...]

In the 1970s a young psychologist challenged a popular theory of how we acquire language, launching a fierce debate that continues to this day [...]

The EPA has released four new pollution rules, most focusing on coal-fired power, as the final pieces of Biden’s push to clean up the power sector [...]

People understand how saving tropical forests is good for the planet, but temperate forests are equally indispensable in fighting climate change [...]

There has never been a better time to be or become a birder [...]

The large constellation Vela contains many hidden treasures. The post Sail into the Southern Skies with Vela appeared first on Sky & Telescope. [...]

Joints in jaws and limbs, once thought to have evolved for life on land, turn out to date back much earlier, to sharks and their relatives [...]