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12/29/2022

Sleeping glass frogs hide by storing most of their blood in their liver

Dec 22 2022 2:56 PM

Glass frogs snoozing among leaves blend in by hiding almost all their red blood cells in their liver until the tiny animals wake up.

Extreme weather in 2022 showed the global impact of climate change

Dec 22 2022 1:58 PM

Heat waves, floods, wildfires and drought around the world were exacerbated by Earth's changing climate.

Io may have an underworld magma ocean or a hot metal heart

Dec 22 2022 9:00 AM

New calculations support dueling ideas for what powers the ubiquitous volcanoes on the hellish surface of Jupiter's innermost moon.

These are the most popular Science News stories of 2022

Dec 22 2022 7:00 AM

Science News drew over 13 million visitors to our website this year. Here's a recap of the most-read news stories and long reads of 2022.

These 5 biomedical advances gave 2022 a sci-fi feel

Dec 21 2022 1:00 PM

Big steps in biology and medicine include pig to human organ transplants, synthetic embryos and a fully complete human genome.

Humans haven't set foot on the moon in 50 years. That may soon change

Dec 21 2022 11:00 AM

In 1972, the era of crewed missions to the moon came to an end. Fifty years later, a new one has begun.

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Here are 5 record-breaking science discoveries from 2022

Dec 21 2022 9:00 AM

The earliest surgery, fastest supercomputer and biggest single-celled bacteria were some of this year's top science superlatives.

Squid edit their RNA to keep cellular supply lines moving in the cold

Dec 21 2022 7:00 AM

Squid change their RNA more often in the cold, producing motor proteins that keep cellular cargo on track.

The James Webb Space Telescope wasn't the only big space news in 2022

Dec 20 2022 1:00 PM

DART crashed into an asteroid, Artemis went to the moon and we got a pic of our galaxy's monstrous black hole. Space was a busy place this year.

These are our favorite animal stories of 2022

Dec 20 2022 11:00 AM

Goldfish driving cars, skydiving salamanders and spiders dodging postcoital death are among the critters that most impressed the Science News staff.

Medical racism didn't begin or end with the syphilis study at Tuskegee

Dec 20 2022 9:00 AM

Racism that fueled the syphilis study still permeates the U.S. health care system, causing disparities in access to medical care and health measures.

The James Webb telescope is getting glimpses of small, far-off planets

Dec 20 2022 7:00 AM

Hints of one exoplanet atmosphere's chemical makeup and the discovery of a planet orbiting another star are two of the telescope's early successes.

Mysterious ichthyosaur graveyard may have been a breeding ground

Dec 19 2022 2:48 PM

Some 230 million years ago, massive dolphinlike reptiles gathered to breed in safe waters — just like many modern whales do, a study finds.

Long genital spines on male wasps can save their lives

Dec 19 2022 11:00 AM

A male wasp's genital spines can save his life in an encounter with a scary tree frog, a new study shows.

The first planet found by the Kepler space telescope is doomed

Dec 19 2022 9:00 AM

The exoplanet dubbed Kepler 1658b is spiraling toward its host star and will meet a fiery death in less than 3 million years.

These science discoveries from 2022 could be game changers

Dec 19 2022 7:00 AM

Gophers that farm, the earliest known hominid, a strange hybrid monkey and the W boson's mass are among the findings awaiting more evidence.

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