News

  1. Astronomy

    Skepticism grows over whether the first known exomoon exists

    New analyses of the data used to find the first discovered exomoon are reaching conflicting results.

    By Lisa Grossman
  2. Health & Medicine

    A mysterious dementia that mimics Alzheimer’s gets named LATE

    An underappreciated form of dementia that causes memory trouble in older people gets a name: LATE.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Health & Medicine

    How holes in herd immunity led to a 25-year high in U.S. measles cases

    U.S. measles cases have surged to 704. Outbreaks reveal pockets of vulnerability where too many unvaccinated people are helping the virus spread.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  4. Animals

    How aphids sacrifice themselves to fix their homes with fatty goo

    Young aphids swollen with fatty substances save their colony by self-sacrifice, using that goo to patch breaches in the wall of their tree home.