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The results of an experimental drug targeting tau in the brains of people at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease are a “significant step forward” even though the improvements to memory loss are small. sciencenews.org/article/new-al…

Uncrewed bots sent to get up close and personal with Arctic sea ice boundary may be key to understanding catastrophic climate change. sciencenews.org/article/robot-…

A new global map shows how gigantic bands of water vapor travel along networks of interconnected highways in the sky. sciencenews.org/article/mappin…

Have you ever wondered about your genetic ancestry? Your dog’s? What about your steak’s? Scientists recently sequenced the whole genome of the Beefalo, a cattle breed that’s supposedly 37.5% bison. Their results say otherwise. sciencenews.org/article/beefal…

These new planets join a small cadre of large but light worlds called superpuffs. sciencenews.org/article/puffie…

They grow up so fast. No, seriously. Neandertal babies probably were like Homo sapiens babies, but Neandertals appear to develop more rapidly in infancy. sciencenews.org/article/neande…

There’s a new record holder for the most distant supermassive black hole. sciencenews.org/article/record…

Practice is what makes a lefty or a righty. sciencenews.org/article/left-r…

Pluto has joined the club of rocky bodies known to experience landslides. sciencenews.org/article/pluto-…

New Horizons data reveal six giant landslides on the dwarf planet — the first confirmed there. Found along steep crater rims, the landslides could help scientists better understand what Pluto’s surface is made of and how it moves. sciencenews.org/article/pluto-…

People tend to be better at writing with either their left or the right hand. This specialization doesn’t apply to elbows, a new study suggests. sciencenews.org/article/left-r…

Beefalo: five-eighths cattle, three-eighths bison, 100 percent delicious, according to the American Beefalo Association. But a new study suggests that most Beefalo have no bison DNA at all. sciencenews.org/article/beefal…

Icefall: James Bond-like gadgets deployed to gather intelligence on dangers of melting glaciers. sciencenews.org/article/robot-…

How different — and how alike — were Neandertal and Homo sapiens infants? Neandertal babies were like Homo sapiens babies but then grew more quickly, two new studies suggest. sciencenews.org/article/neande…

Two newfound “superpuff” planets, illustrated orbiting a sunlike star over 1,000 light-years from Earth, are as big as Jupiter and as dense as cotton candy. sciencenews.org/article/puffie…

In the study, the pregnancy rate among people using long-acting methods came out higher, while the rate for people on short-acting methods was lower than past research has suggested. sciencenews.org/article/birth-…

AI technology was supposed to streamline scientific peer review. Instead, it’s proving easy to fool. sciencenews.org/article/ai-too…

The name is point. Tipping point. High-tech even more experimental than seen in spy movies to study climate tipping points in Greenland ice this summer. sciencenews.org/article/robot-…

A genome analysis of Beefalo, a bison-cattle crossbreed, reveals little to no bison DNA. sciencenews.org/article/beefal…

Digital bone reconstructions are illuminating how Neandertal's growth trajectories in infancy differed from ours. sciencenews.org/article/neande…