Seeking clear skies and quiet, astronomers put telescopes on U.S. Moon lander
Small scopes on IM-1 mission would be first optical and radio observatories on the lunar surface[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
News at a glance: Layoffs at JPL, fossils of ancient innards, and Darwin’s library
The latest in science and policy[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
Amazon River may be altered forever by climate change
More extreme droughts and floods may become the new norm, challenging people and ecosystems[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
Serengeti’s ‘breathtaking’ mammal migration shaped by grazers’ diets
Camera traps, dung, and GPS capture new details of annual trek by zebras, wildebeests, and gazelles[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
Rice covered in cow cells aims to provide nutritious, sustainable food
“Microbeef sushi” costs about the same as plain rice, but how does it taste?[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
X-ray survey bolsters prevailing theory of universe’s expansion
eROSITA telescope shows galaxies’ “clumpiness” matches predicted effect of dark energy, dark matter[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
Mysterious ‘comb’ drawings may be among oldest cave paintings in South America
For millennia, people returned again and again to remote cave to paint comblike motif on its walls[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
‘Tag!’ Other great apes share our affinity for playful teasing
Surprisingly similar teasing behaviors across species suggest it evolved at least 13 million years ago[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
Mosquitoes may transmit West Nile virus to one another via feces
“Diagonal transmission” may maintain the virus in mosquito populations without the need for warm-blooded hosts[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
Spikes in air pollution may increase suicide risk
High levels of particulate matter can alter brain chemistry. Bringing them down prevented tens of thousands of suicides in China[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]