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Rebounding COVID-19 isn’t limited to Paxlovid patients. An infection can come back even for people not given the drug.

In the 1970s, biologists hoped to freeze organs so more could last long enough to be transplanted. Scientists are now starting to manage this feat.

An art historian has teamed up with chemists to uncover the science behind cosmetics used around 500 years ago.

Unlike all other studied primates, humans lack vocal membranes. That lets humans produce the sounds that language is built on, a new study suggests.

The Arctic isn’t just heating up two to three times as quickly as the rest of the planet. New analyses show that warming is almost four times as fast.

Learning how the common Epstein-Barr virus may trigger multiple sclerosis could help experts design better treatments — or perhaps end the disease.

A novel vocalization made by the captive great apes may help them draw human attention.

Sea sponges rely on a sneezing mechanism to clear their pores, using mucus to flush out debris. This mucus provides food for other marine life.

A new study opens the door for future balloon-based missions to study the geology of other worlds.

Along a river in Washington state, the repositioned beavers built dams that lowered stream temperatures and boosted water storage.

A technique used to reveal dark matter could also shed light on a disagreement about the clumpiness of matter in the cosmos.

Starlight is eroding the atmospheres of a handful of gassy exoplanets that are a bit smaller than Neptune, gradually exposing the rocky cores within.

Navigating neutrinos Tidal disruption events, in which supermassive black holes rip apart stars, could supercharge ghostly subatomic particles called neutrinos, Emily Conover reported in “Zippy neutrino linked to a source” (SN: 6/18/22, p. 8). Conover reported that scientists tracked a high-energy neutrino to an area of the sky where a bright flare, thought to be

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses science’s fascination with space, from 25 years of Mars rovers to the James Webb Space Telescope’s mind-blowing first images.

Over 25 years, remotely controlled rovers have uncovered Mars’ watery history and continue to search for evidence that life once existed there.

Though decades away, the project hopes to use an array of ultrasensitive sensors as a “wind chime,” jostled by dark matter blowing past Earth.

In a new field dubbed “necrobotics,” researchers used a syringe and some superglue to control the dead bodies of wolf spiders.

A monoclonal antibody for malaria passed an early hurdle and now will be tested in children in Africa, who are most at risk of dying from the disease.

Bright and dusty spokes of star formation connect the Cartwheel Galaxy’s inner and outer rings in a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Sensors, pumps and artificial fluid staved off tissue damage in pigs after cardiac arrest. The system may one day preserve organs for transplantation.