Science News drew millions of visitors to our website this year. Here’s a recap of the most-read and most-watched news stories of 2024.

Explorers, astronauts and filmmakers described life in space and on Earth in an epic livestream from the Drake Passage.

Tiffany Taylor, professor of microbial ecology and evolution at the University of Bath in the U.K., recommends the books that ...

The end of 2024 seems a particularly uncertain time in history, and theoretical computer science is no exception. Amid several breakthroughs and new findings, the field also confronted its own doubts ...

The publisher of a high-profile, now-corrected study on black plastics has been removed from a critical index of academic ...

From a total solar eclipse that captivated our continent to record temperatures that scorched the planet, these were the ...

Reaction to a recent Pew survey on the public’s trust in science shows that the scientific community is not ready to address ...

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Day 19 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a beacon in the clouds. This image from the James Webb Space Telescope features a bright H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite ...

The agency recommended that the maker of Librela update its label to reflect the possibility of more serious adverse reactions. By Emily Anthes A popular drug for dogs with arthritis may be ...

The J particle; a nitroglycerin engine ...

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