Plants communicate distress using their own kind of nervous system
Model mustard plant uses the same signals as animals to relay distress
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Ammonia, a poorly understood smog ingredient, could be key to limiting deadly pollution
New tools help researchers focus on pollutant that helps fuel toxic haze -
Engineered natural killer cells may be the next great cancer immunotherapy
Inspired by success with T cells, scientists equip other immune cells with cancer-homing protein -
BPA substitutes may be just as bad as the popular consumer plastic
Some bisphenol A–free replacements cause genetic defects in animals -
Physicists’ search for rare Higgs boson pairs could yield new physics
Double-Higgs hunt at Large Hadron Collider will test standard model of physics -
Researchers reboot ambitious effort to sequence all vertebrate genomes, but challenges loom
Vertebrate Genomes Project seeks a stronger funding backbone -
Universities are worse than drug companies at reporting clinical trial results
Almost 90% of academic clinical trials are not reported promptly to European registry -
Could November elections scramble a controversial U.S. mission to a frozen moon?
Powerful lawmaker who backed Europa lander faces possible defeat -
Hurricane Florence is coming. Scientists are scrambling to prepare
Storm poses both challenge and opportunity for researchers -
New find clears Madagascar’s first settlers of wiping out world’s largest bird
Humans arrived thousands of years earlier than thought -
Watch these new ‘designer proteins’ light up when they hit their target
Synthetic proteins could track everything from illegal drugs to gene expression -
Scientists engineer a powerful new weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria
New drug can breach sturdy cell membranes and thwart life-threatening infections -
These red crayon markings may be the first known human drawing
73,000-year-old discovery cements sophistication of Stone Age humans -
As massive Zika vaccine trial struggles, researchers revive plan to intentionally infect humans
Disappearance of Zika in Americas makes it tough for $110 million trial to evaluate worth of vaccine candidate -
Some scientists publish more than 70 papers a year. Here’s how—and why—they do it
Science chats with statistician John Ioannidis about “hyperprolific” authors -
This broken gene may have turned our ancestors into marathoners—and helped humans conquer the world
Mice with the same genetic change become ultradistance runners -
Watch these sluggish basking sharks break through the water as quickly as great whites
Why they do it is still a mystery -
Fungi that live in cockroaches, oil paintings, and other bizarre places come to light in new report
Royal Botanic Gardens’ first report on the world’s fungi highlights new discoveries -
Puerto Rico’s catastrophic hurricane gave scientists a rare chance to study how tropical forests will fare in a stormier future
Climate warming could make forests less resilient -
NASA space laser will track Earth’s melting poles and disappearing sea ice
ICESat-2 will inform predictions of human-driven sea level rise -
Slippery volcanic soils blamed for deadly landslides during Hokkaido earthquake
Hillsides slid away on slippery layer of pumice -
Controversial plastic trash collector begins maiden ocean voyage
Youthful inventor wants to clean up plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean -
If you’ve had anesthesia, you can likely thank this veterinarian who just won a top science prize
John “Iain” Glen, inventor of propofol, among four Lasker Award winners -
Fewer people are answering a U.S. agency’s citizenship query. That’s fueling fears for the 2020 census
Nonresponse rates have doubled on American Community Survey question, study finds -
These eerie new images reveal the insides of fish and snakes like never before
Scientists use fluorescence imaging to show stunning anatomical details
