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The Day After Tomorrow to Snowpiercer to Snowball Earth: These end-of-days visions of a frozen Earth are largely fantastical…but can contain a snowflake of truth. sciencenews.org/article/snowba…

Nurse sharks in the Bahamas near Eleuthera Island had traces of drugs like caffeine and painkillers and had impaired metabolism, a new study reports. sciencenews.org/article/cocain…

Static electricity is a touchy subject. Now, scientists have identified a hidden factor at play when objects touch. sciencenews.org/article/static…

Scientists found something in platypus fur they’ve never seen in mammals before: hollow pigment structures. sciencenews.org/article/platyp…

Chile’s Monte Verde site may be thousands of years younger than previously thought, data suggest. sciencenews.org/article/first-…

The arid hills of Western Australia’s Pilbara region contain the earliest evidence yet of tectonic plates sliding across Earth’s surface. sciencenews.org/article/earth-…

Hot, humid conditions now sharply limit everyday activity, especially for older adults. sciencenews.org/article/extrem…

Whether the Dania Beach vervet monkeys survive largely depends on how they are perceived: valued residents, or nonnative threat. sciencenews.org/article/wild-m…

Fitbit, Apple Watch, Google Pixel, Oura Ring — all could soon help to spot early signs of insulin resistance, a precursor to type 2 diabetes. sciencenews.org/article/smartw…

Microbes, like all life on Earth, are facing a warming climate. Their communities are changing, but what that means and how that might impact our atmosphere is unclear. sciencenews.org/article/climat…

Nighttime satellite observations show that 44 major U.S. cities have more cloud cover over their urban areas than over nearby rural land, researchers report. sciencenews.org/article/city-s…

Today, more than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for an organ transplant. sciencenews.org/article/every-…

Could Earth freeze over? Sure, because it has before. But it would take more than a few weeks. sciencenews.org/article/snowba…

During hot weather, daily activities such as walking and gardening can become dangerous. Such obstructive heat has become much more common around the world, researchers report. sciencenews.org/article/extrem…

You've heard of Florida Man news stories. Well, we've got one on Florida Monkeys. sciencenews.org/article/wild-m…

When combined with clinical markers, smartwatch data was able to help detect insulin resistance with nearly 90 percent accuracy. sciencenews.org/article/smartw…

Each year, thousands of people in the U.S. die waiting for donated organs. A new book shares how organs from other species could change that. sciencenews.org/article/every-…

Just when you think platypuses can’t get any stranger… Scientists discover their fur has structures previously thought unique to birds. sciencenews.org/article/platyp…

Touch can be electrifying — literally. Scientists just identified an important factor in how electric charge is exchanged when two objects touch. sciencenews.org/article/static…

Across 44 major U.S. cities, nighttime cloud cover was up to 15 percent higher over urban areas than nearby rural land. Why? How buildings are clustered may be the answer. sciencenews.org/article/city-s…