Toxins Are Forever‘Worrying’ Levels of Toxic Chemicals Found in Everyday Objects, Places: Study PFAS are linked to neurological and autoimmune disorders, with possible higher mortality rates among young mothers exposed to the chemicals. By Devrupa Rakshit
MoonstruckIn a First, Scientists Find a Moon Forming Around a Planet Outside Our Solar System The observations will shed new light on how moons and planets form in young stellar systems, scientists say. By Saumya Kalia
Great AuroraScientists Finally Decode the Mystery of Northern Lights’ Origins The creation of the aurora was understood in theory before -- researchers simulated it for the first time in a lab. By Saumya Kalia
May I Have Some?How Serotonin Became the Internet’s Symbol for Hope and Happiness Joking about this neurotransmitter’s role in keeping us happy is a familiar community coping mechanism. By Aditi Murti
Invisible GoodsCompanies Are Trading CO2 Emissions to Tackle Global Warming. But the System Lacks Accountability Without proper regulations, carbon trading can increase greenhouse gas emissions and concentrate wealth among the rich. By Aditi Murti
Speak NowHow Can We Understand a Language, but Not Speak It? Separate parts of the brain are responsible for understanding and reproducing a language, making the two activities mutually exclusive. By Aditi Murti
No Songs For LoversBirds Learn Mating Calls From Older Birds. But What Happens When Older Birds Have Died Out? The survival of an endangered songbird species is further threatened because so few of its adults remain to teach love songs. By Aditi Murti
From Past To ProgressScientists Discover Oldest Animal DNA Ever, Recovered From Mammoths This DNA could help evolutionary researchers convey statements about "how mammoths came to be mammoths, why they look the way they do and how diverse they were." By Aditi Murti
Women in STEMTell Me More: Talking STEM Education and Bias With the Co‑Founders of The Life of Science "...The dominant narrative is something like 'Who will marry you if you do a Ph.D?' in our society." By Aditi Murti
in 2020?Scientists May Have Discovered an Unknown Organ Hiding in the Throat Researchers think the 'tubarial glands,' which resemble salivary glands under the tongue, are involved in saliva secretion. By Rajvi Desai
Not Quite Noble3 White, Male Scientists Win 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine The Nobel committee continues to ignore the diverse and collaborative nature of scientific discovery. By Aditi Murti
Cooperation Not CompetitionWe’ve Completely Misunderstood ‘Survival of the Fittest,’ Evolutionary Biologists Say The “fittest” is often the friendliest and most cooperative. By Rajvi Desai
Fair And EquitableCovid19 Studies Are Not Taking Sex Into Consideration, And It Could Put Women At Risk “Women are not just small men,” one researcher said. By Rajvi Desai
Heated DebateScientists Just Discovered a Gas in the Clouds of Venus That Might Signal Life Scientists cannot explain how else the gas made its way into the Venusian clouds. By Rajvi Desai
A Whole New WorldNASA Scientists May Have Discovered An Ocean World on Ceres, Between Mars and Jupiter The dwarf planet Ceres is aglow with salt deposits and minerals that point to reservoirs of seawater beneath its surface, NASA's Dawn spacecraft found. By Rajvi Desai
Keepers of Our HistoryWhen We Destroy Forests, We Lose Millennia of Data Chronicling Earth, Human History Forests hold multitudes of data that helps us understand climate change and the effects of habitat destruction. By Akhila Vijayaraghavan
Doing The Absolute LeastScientists Find Deep‑Sea Microbes That Expend The Least Amount of Energy Possible to Exist Scientists said microbes that exist on so little energy - 50 quintillion times less than humans - can expand our notions of what being alive looks like. By Aditi Murti
Clubbed TogetherGermany Asks 4,000 People to Attend Concert as a Coronavirus Experiment German scientists hope to learn more about how to safely host large-scale events amid the coronavirus pandemic. By Rajvi Desai
