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Scientists electrically culled invasive fish in a 20-year battle—but the fish fought back with rapid evolution

Many asteroids are related, but their family trees can be hard to trace

A museum exhibit in Australia lets visitors hear music generated by brain cells derived from the blood of a dead composer.

Nearly 100 years ago dozens of ships were abandoned in a shallow bay in the Potomac River. Today plants and animals are thriving on the skeletons of these vessels

An analysis of Taylor Swift’s interviews suggests her speech pattern has changed over her career

Carla Brodley, founding executive director of the Center for Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University, explains how to make computer science education more accessible to everyone

Brain imaging is illuminating the patterns linked to productive, positive dialogue, and those insights could help people connect with others

Cells in cow udders could act as a site for human flu and bird flu viruses to swap genes and generate dangerous novel strains

The infection rate of one type of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales bacteria has risen by more than 460 percent in recent years. Scientists say people receiving treatment in hospitals are at highest risk

The Trump administration is backing leucovorin as a treatment for autism, despite limited evidence. Some doctors and researchers are concerned

Up to 98 percent of the energy of an earthquake goes into flash heating rocks, not shaking the ground, new research shows. The finding could help yield better earthquake forecasts

Mary Roach unpacks the millennia-long effort to replace failing body parts—and the reasons that modern medicine still struggles to match the original designs.

By understanding warning signs and talking to your child, parents can help reduce the risk of teen suicide

Lunar minerals can rust when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, experiments show

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) continues to affect infants and older and immunocompromised people around the world. These graphics reveal where the burden lies and what the effects of immunizations are

American Indian and Alaska Native infants experience the highest rates of RSV-related hospitalization in the U.S., but a breakthrough immunization is helping to close the gap

The year 2023 marked the debut of groundbreaking innovations to prevent severe RSV infections in infants. Now protected babies are way less likely to develop severe infections or to end up in the ICU

Abigail Echo-Hawk, a preeminent Native American public health expert, discusses RSV, “data genocide” and positive change driven by Indigenous storytelling

RSV is the leading cause of infant hospitalizations in the U.S. But that could soon change as research advances lead to new preventive drugs for everyone

Tragic RSV vaccine trials in the 1960s set the field back for decades. Here’s how scientists finally made breakthroughs in RSV immunization