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The detection of cool plasma before the tiny outbursts on the sun is helping researchers make connections between campfire flares and other solar eruptions.

Land managers in the western United States are using potential operational delineations, or PODS, to prepare for — and take advantage of — wildfires.

Giant hail that pummeled northeast Spain in August 2022 could not have formed without climate change, computer simulations suggest.

By training beekeepers, biologist Ximena Velez-Liendo is helping rural agricultural communities of southern Bolivia coexist with Andean bears.

Ocean warming enhances hurricane activity, bleaches coral reefs and melts Antarctic sea ice. That warming has been off the charts for the past year.

Though not completely vegetarian, the Iberomaurusian hunter-gatherers from North Africa relied heavily on plants such as acorns, pistachios and oats.

In her new book, Arielle Johnson, former resident scientist at the restaurant Noma, explains how to think like a scientist in the kitchen.

Patient privacy People with chronic conditions are taking medical research into their own hands, Betsy Ladyzhets reported in “Patient as scientist” (SN: 3/23/24, p. 22). Connor, a patient highlighted in the story, asked to be identified by only his first name. But the story prints the full name of his spouse. “How exactly does that […]

Editor in chief Nancy Shute reflects on the evolution of Science News' typical reader.

Deaf experimental psychologist Rain Bosworth has found that babies are primed to learn sign language just like spoken language.