News

  1. Climate

    A robot swarm is on a mission to map Greenland’s perilous ice sheets

    The ambitious expedition aims to fill data gaps about the glacier-sea boundary to predict when the world might tip into a catastrophic climate regime.

    By Mićo Tatalović
  2. Agriculture

    Scientists say Beefalo are all beef, no -alo. Breeders disagree

    A whole-genome analysis of Beefalo, a hybrid bison-cattle breed, suggests very few individuals have any bison DNA at all, a new study reports.

    By Libby Riddle
  3. Health & Medicine

    Many U.S. teens underestimate fentanyl’s deadly risk

    A majority of 8th-graders and roughly a third of 10th- and 12th-graders do not see great risk in using fentanyl once or twice, a study reports.