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Millions of kids have missed routine vaccines thanks to COVID-19

Jul 14 2021 7:00 PM

Missed shots due to the pandemic may have cut vaccination rates for measles, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis to their lowest levels in over a decade.

Would dogs return the favor if you gave them treats? It's complicated

Jul 14 2021 2:00 PM

An experiment in which dogs did not reciprocate food giving with humans may reveal something about the dogs, or about how science is done.

Climate change may rob male dragonfly wings of their dark spots

Jul 14 2021 9:00 AM

Less colorful, cooler wings may be advantageous to dragonflies in a warmer world. But the change could mess with the insects' mating.

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Mixing trees and crops can help both farmers and the climate

Jul 14 2021 6:00 AM

Agriculture is a major driver of climate change and biodiversity loss. But integrating trees into farming practices can boost food production, store carbon and save species.

Froghoppers are the super-suckers of the animal world

Jul 13 2021 7:01 PM

To feed on plant xylem sap, a nutrient-poor liquid locked away under negative pressure, froghoppers have to suck harder than any known creature.

Hurricanes may not be becoming more frequent, but they're still more dangerous

Jul 13 2021 11:02 AM

A new study suggests that there aren't more hurricanes now than there were roughly 150 years ago.

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'The Joy of Sweat' will help you make peace with perspiration

Jul 13 2021 9:00 AM

Dripping with science and history, a new book by science journalist Sarah Everts seeks to take the stigma off sweat.

The first step in using trees to slow climate change: Protect the trees we have

Jul 13 2021 6:00 AM

In all the fuss over planting trillions of trees, we need to protect the forests that already exist.

Dogs tune into people in ways even human-raised wolves don't

Jul 12 2021 11:00 AM

Puppies outpace wolf pups at engaging with humans, even with less exposure to people, supporting the idea that domestication has wired dogs' brains.

Satellites show how a massive lake in Antarctica vanished in days

Jul 12 2021 10:00 AM

Within six days, an Antarctic lake with twice the volume of San Diego Bay drained away, leaving a deep sinkhole filled with fractured ice.

How science overlooks Asian Americans

Jul 12 2021 8:00 AM

Existing scientific datasets fail to capture details on Asian Americans, making it hard to assess the group's overall well-being.

One mutation may have set the coronavirus up to become a global menace

Jul 12 2021 6:00 AM

A study pinpoints a key mutation that may have put a bat coronavirus on the path to becoming a human pathogen, helping it better infect human cells.

50 years ago, scientists found a virus lurking in human cancer cells

Jul 09 2021 10:00 AM

In 1971, scientists were building a case for viruses as a cause of cancer. Fifty years later, cancer-preventing vaccines are now a reality.

The gap in parenting time between middle- and working-class moms has shrunk

Jul 09 2021 8:00 AM

Some well-educated mothers are spending less time with their kids than before, while some less-educated mothers are spending more, a new study shows.

Why planting tons of trees isn't enough to solve climate change

Jul 09 2021 6:00 AM

Massive projects need much more planning and follow-through to succeed – and other tree protections need to happen too.

How Romanesco cauliflower forms its spiraling fractals

Jul 08 2021 2:00 PM

By tweaking just three genes in a common lab plant, scientists have discovered the mechanism responsible for one of nature's most impressive fractals.

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