Skip to content
HeyJared

Science News

Science News is a specialized journalism outlet dedicated to covering advances across the natural and physical sciences, with an emphasis on explaining complex research in an accessible, evidence‑based way.

Outlet · US · Official site

Indexed articles, last 90 days
156
Latest publication
Oct 1, 2026
Audience
Top 500K sites
Earliest in this view
Jul 6, 2026

Latest articles

  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Meghan Rosen

    Here’s how brain-eating amoebas may infect people (opens the original)

    Excerpt

    Read excerpt

    Naegleria amoebas’ exploration skills and crawling behaviors could help explain how the brain-eating variety travel into human brains.

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Melissa Hobson

    A video of a humpback whale and her dead calf reveals the animals’ bond (opens the original)

    Excerpt

    Read excerpt

    A female humpback whale may have spent days with her stillborn calf. This rare sighting may suggest that baleen whales experience grief.

  3. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Stefan Lovgren

    A new map points out U.S. rivers most worth protecting (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    First, the bad news: Of all the rivers in the contiguous United States, only 6 percent are both in healthy condition and meaningfully safeguarded. The good news is that many more may be just one repair away from thriving. A new map highlights where conservation money and attention would do the most good as the climate warms, researchers report September 16 in PLOS One. The effort is the most comprehensive to date, assessing the health of the lower 48 states’ rivers and streams. “We can now point

  4. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · RJ Mackenzie

    Exhaling may speed up reaction times (opens the original)

    Excerpt

    Read excerpt

    Scientists testing potential treatments for sleep apnea made an unexpected discovery. How quickly people react may depend on whether they’re breathing in or out.

  5. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Hannah Thomasy

    A medieval remedy could offer ideas for beating antibiotic resistance (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    A look one thousand years into the past is revealing clues about how to develop the bacteria-fighting drugs of the future.A concoction from a 10th century medical manuscript damaged cell membranes, altered the expression of disease-promoting genes and interfered with interbacterial communication when added to bacterial cultures, researchers report September 3 in mSphere. What’s more, three kinds of harmful bacteria developed resistance to the medicinal mixture much more slowly compared with conv

Publishing over time

Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.

Recurring subjects

Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.

Audience

Top 500K sites

Measured Aug 1, 2026

Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.

How this was measured

About this data

Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.

Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.

See coverage about Science News