Science

Naegleria fowleri was detected in 34% of western U.S. National Park water samples — and researchers warn aging infrastructure is expanding the amoeba's geographic reach nationwide.

James Webb Telescope mapped 164,000 galaxies in the COSMOS-Web survey, creating the deepest view ever of the dark matter scaffolding connecting the observable universe.

The NSF's plan to shut down a $368 million deep-sea monitoring network threatens irreplaceable ocean data crucial to detecting climate tipping points like AMOC collapse.

An AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine produced robust immune responses in its first 72-person human trial, researchers reported Monday in The Lancet.

A first-in-class RAS inhibitor cut the risk of death by 60% in metastatic pancreatic cancer, doubling median survival from 6.7 to 13.2 months in a landmark Phase 3 trial published in the NEJM.

South Australia's koala population has grown so large that forests can no longer sustain it, turning a decades-long conservation success story into an accelerating ecological crisis.

Bumblebees solve novel puzzles spontaneously — including by cheating to win the reward. The discovery challenges long-held assumptions about cognition in small-brained insects.

Tokyo researchers show a 10 kg X-ray telescope could map five key lunar elements in two years — opening a window on the Moon's formation no mission has yet achieved.

An mRNA vaccine designed almost entirely by machine learning generated cross-coronavirus immunity in 96 healthy volunteers with no serious adverse events — a first for the field.