Buying a gift for a loved one with cancer? Here’s why you should skip the fuzzy socks and give them meals or help with laundry instead

The season of gifting is in full swing – a time when people scour the internet and shops of all kinds for items that appropriately symbolize their relationships with their…

Bonsaiing mangroves to uncover how traits shape – and flip – ant competition – Functional Ecologists

In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, author Mark Wong, a Forrest Fellow at the University of Western Australia, discusses his new article  ‘Functional trait dissimilarity drives arboreal ant community…

Roundup litigation reprieve? U.S. government backs Bayer’s claim that its glyphosate is safe-as-used finding preempts random, conflicting state-by-state ‘failure-to-warn’ claims

U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a brief on Monday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review Monsanto’s federal preemption arguments in the sprawling litigation over its Roundup pesticide.…

Scientists Rule Out the Existence of a Long-Suspected Particle

BYLINE: Kitta MacPherson Newswise — After collecting and analyzing data for a decade, a group of scientists, including a team from Rutgers, have debunked a decades-old theory about a mysterious…

Growing Fear of Nature: Study Reveals Causes of Rising Biophobia

Summary: An increasing number of people experience fear, discomfort, or disgust toward nature—a phenomenon known as biophobia. The findings reveal that negative emotions form through both external factors such as…

Ancient lances discovered near Boeslunde rewrites Denmark’s iron working history

Two lances discovered near the village of Boeslunde on Zealand represent the earliest known examples of iron workmanship in Denmark. In August 2025, a team of archaeologists from the Museum…

Rare images reveal active sunspots minutes before they unleashed powerful X-flares that caused November 2025’s stunning auroras

In early November, a series of powerful X-class solar flares triggered coronal mass ejections that resulted in an astonishing auroral display for viewers as far south as Mexico. But for…

Viewpoint: ‘Gold standard science’ farce: RFK Jr.’s pledge dangerously mocks U.S. healthcare and endangers medicine globally

The message is hammered over and over, in news conferences, hearings and executive orders: President Donald Trump and his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., say they want the government to follow “gold standard”…

Two Beams, One Detector, Most Precise Search for ‘Sterile’ Neutrinos

Newswise — In the search for evidence of a ghostly particle called the “sterile” neutrino, the latest results from the MicroBooNE detector at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fermi National…

MicroBooNE Finds No Evidence for a Sterile Neutrino

Newswise — Scientists are closing the door on one explanation for a neutrino mystery that has plagued them for decades. An international collaboration of scientists working on the MicroBooNE experiment at the U.S. Department…