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A fetus doesn’t have to see a yawn to catch it.  Mothers can spread yawns to their yet-to-be-born offspring during pregnancy, researchers…

In a galaxy 4.4 billion light-years away, scientists may have discovered the most massive pair of black holes ever found.…

Rodents in South America may be poised to carry disease to new places. Warming temperatures and shifts in rainfall patterns…

Lily Burton is the Spring 2026 science writing intern at Science News. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Molecular and…

Brain cells that help make us human are also uniquely vulnerable to multiple sclerosis. A newfound cellular repair kit can’t…

In X-Men, Warren Worthington III sprouts huge white wings from his back and shoots into the sky. Scientists have yet…

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She is a two-time winner…

Humankind’s recent journey around the moon produced a spectacular photo album of our corner of the universe. Here was the…

In hospitals across Nigeria and much of sub-Saharan Africa, children with severe diarrhea arrive daily. Clinicians act quickly to prevent…

Neandertals may have had an unexpected tool in their kits: rhinoceros teeth. Marks in fossil rhino teeth found in caves…