A new analysis of an ancient fish rules out some prominent ideas about its identity and offers a new name, noting similarities to modern fishes’ larvae — but gives no certain answers about its place on the tree of life. sciencenews.org/article/ancien…

The biggest clash in cosmology might be inching closer to resolution, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. sciencenews.org/article/cosmol…

Want to equip yourself to evaluate AI claims? You can start by reading 'AI Snake Oil.' sciencenews.org/article/ai-sna…

Cross a boomerang, a ribbon, and a fish, and you might get 'Pegasus volans' — a 50-million-year-old fossil whose evolutionary ties to other species have remained mysterious since its discovery in the late 18th century. sciencenews.org/article/ancien…

The biggest clash in cosmology might be inching closer to resolution, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. If the “Hubble tension” is real, it would demand a drastic shift in how scientists understand the universe. sciencenews.org/article/cosmol…

A new type of pain medication may be approved next year. What does that mean for people with chronic pain? sciencenews.org/article/next-g…

Nuclear clocks could be even more precise than the record-holding atomic clocks and could be used to make new tests of fundamental physics theories. sciencenews.org/article/nuclea…

Unfortunately for porbeagles, it’s a shark-eat-shark world. sciencenews.org/article/shark-…

The Southern Hemisphere is sweltering in winter for the second year in a row. sciencenews.org/article/heat-s…

Up to 80 percent of women experience hot flashes at some point during the menopausal transition. sciencenews.org/article/hot-fl…

"We're trying to discover something completely new, and that's really exciting." - Lab scientist David Woodward on @LZdarkmatter's new #DarkMatter results. Read more Science News: sciencenews.org/article/dark-m…

Winter is coming — or is it? A prolonged wintertime heat wave in Australia is smashing temperature records. sciencenews.org/article/heat-s…

About 20% of all U.S. adults experience chronic pain, defined as pain on most days or every day during the previous three months. Nearly 7% have high-impact chronic pain, which is bad enough to limit daily life or work activities most or every day. sciencenews.org/article/next-g…

A missing porbeagle was likely killed by a great white. It’s the first known case of adult porbeagles being hunted by a predator, scientists say. sciencenews.org/article/shark-…

Today, the United States tightly limits workers’ exposure to vinyl chloride, a chemical used to make PVC pipes and a variety of other plastic products. sciencenews.org/article/50-yea…

Scientific clockmakers have measured the inner workings of one atomic nucleus a million times better than ever before. sciencenews.org/article/nuclea…