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A ridge of rocks in New Mexico holds a snapshot of a dinosaur heyday. Fossils of crested hadrosaurs, long-necked sauropods…

Subterranean mosquitoes specialized for life in subways and sewers first evolved to pester humans millennia ago in Mediterranean civilizations. A…

The world’s most prized coffee comes from partially digested beans pooped out by the Asian palm civet. Now, researchers are…

Painful experience has taught Erika Moore that benign doesn’t always mean harmless. Moore, a biomedical engineer at the University of…

The vessel rolled in the swell as fishers pulled huge nets bursting with tuna onto the deck then poured the…

Australia’s First Peoples were more early paleontologists than extinction-driving butchers, a group of scientists argue. For decades, the debate over…

Duping a guppy is easier than duping a ring dove — at least when it comes to a classic optical…

Ultra-endurance athletes triumph over staggering distances and harsh conditions. But one of their toughest foes may be their own metabolic…

Carly Kay is the Fall 2025 science writing intern at Science News. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from the University…

Citations A. Topiwala et al. Alcohol use and risk of dementia in diverse populations: evidence from cohort, case-control and Mendelian…