Eight of the top 10 officials at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have now been pushed out since President Donald Trump took office
The programmer whose code underpins the Internet
Sharla Boehm, a math teacher, spent her summers coding. She’d go on to build what would eventually evolve into the Internet
How marijuana rewires the teenage brain
A growing body of research suggests cannabis poses risks to the developing brain
Hantavirus cruise ship, PCOS name change, a fish that hides in another animal’s ‘butthole’
What you should know about hantavirus, why PCOS is getting a new name, and how some fish hide in an unusual spot
Did Homo erectus and Denisovans mate? Tooth proteins hint at ancient trysts
Genetic analysis suggests interbreeding between two groups of human relatives
This small rodent is at the center of theories about the hantavirus outbreak
The long-tailed pygmy rice rat is the primary host for Andes virus, the type of hantavirus responsible for sickening passengers on the MV Hondius cruise ship
These ants navigate with a compass tuned to the moon
A newfound nocturnal navigation system challenges what entomologists thought they knew about how ants find their way
NASA reveals new clues to 2027’s Artemis III, the final test mission before a moon landing
NASA is starting to paint in some of the details of its planned 2027 Artemis III mission, but key questions, such as who its astronauts will be, are yet to be answered
Scientists catalog the ‘fractal dimensions’ of more than 130,000 islands
The “coastline paradox” helped to define fractals, but coastlines themselves turn out to be less fractal than thought
Hantavirus can persist in semen for years, but that doesn’t mean it remains contagious
Researchers know very little about how long the Andes version of the hantavirus can remain in human hosts