Polluted air is bad for your lungs. That dirty air might also be why many kids need glasses, new data show.  This observation comes from a study of vision in…

In the classic story The Little Engine That Could, a small blue locomotive laboriously chugs up a hill. She’s hauling cars stuffed full of toys and food for children on…

Hidden beneath all their rum-pum-pumming, woodpeckers are quietly grunt-grunt-grunting. The birds exhale each time they strike their beaks against tree bark. The sound is similar to a tennis player’s grunt…

Tenebrescence (noun, “Ten-eh-BREH-sənse”) Tenebrescence is a property of some minerals that change color under certain lights, such as ultraviolet (UV) or bright sunlight. These color shifts last even after light…

A ribbon of red splotches peppered with blue dots offers a new view of our Milky Way. It’s the largest, most detailed image of our galaxy in radio wavelengths ever…

The University of Nebraska women’s volleyball team spent the 2025 season ranked number one. That wasn’t by chance. The Cornhusker players trained hard all season. They won game after game,…

River Piracy (noun, “RIV-er PY-ruh-see”) River piracy, or stream capture, is when one river steals water from another. River piracy can happen when one river cuts across another, diverting its…

Artificial intelligence can dash off more than emails and essays. It has now written entire genetic instruction manuals, or genomes.  Two AI models designed complete sets of DNA for 16…

Flavor isn’t just on your tongue — it’s also in your brain. New scans identify a part of the brain that fuses taste and smell into flavor. Smell and taste…

Imagine a tree. Moving up from the ground, the trunk splits into branches. Follow each of those branches, and they divide into smaller and smaller branches. Each of those in…