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Two children wearing rainboots playing in a muddy field

Soil bacteria and fungi emerge as a top predictor of childhood allergic disease

AGU Newsroom
Dec 2025

rows of elevated solar panels cast strips of shade over rows of low-growing crops on a sunny farm

Solar panels over crops may boost farmworkers’ comfort

AGU Newsroom
Dec 2025

A triangular sign on a wooden stake in front of the ocean, designating a marine sanctuary

For Australia’s marine life, “safe zones” from climate change may disappear within 15 years

AGU Newsroom
Nov 2025

A lone hiker in a desert landscape

Parched soils can spark hot drought a nation away

AGU Newsroom
Oct 2025

A man in Kashmir, India, cooks on a traditional biomass-burning stove, while a gas burner rests on the floor to the right

Gas Versus Biomass Cooking—Landmark Trial Yields Unexpected Results

Engineering
Sep 2025

A pile of food waste in the Earthflow industrial composting machine

Closing the Loop: From waste to food security

Ka Pili Kai
Aug. 2025

Cover of the English translation of The Ethical Framework Principles for
Climate Intervention Research.

AGU Posts Principles to Guide—and Foster—Geoengineering Research

Engineering
June 2025

A silhouette of an adult male deer standing beneath an oak tree

During a baby oak’s first summer drought, a little leaf munching may help it survive

Science
Dec. 2024

two adult sperm whales swimming side by side

Why are whales eating plastic bags? They may 'sound' like dinner.

National Geographic
Nov. 2024

The research platform FLIP in vertical orientation, with its top 55 ft protruding vertically above the ocean's surface

(Audio) Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship’

Science Magazine Podcast
Nov. 2024

the research platform known as FLIP in vertical orientation, with its stern submerged and its top 55 feet protruding above the ocean surface

Saved from the scrapyard, this famed ‘flipping ship’ gets a second shot at ocean research

Science
Nov. 2024

a water anole lizard underwater, breathing and re-inhaling a bubble over its snout

These lizards blow bubbles underwater and use them like scuba tanks

Science
Sep. 2024

a pile of ashwagandha roots on a white surface

Can taking ashwagandha supplements improve health?

Science News
Sep. 2024

The Tara Polar Station under construction in a shipyard in Cherbourg, France

Arctic ecosystems get long-term look with drifting research station

Science
Sep. 2024

An artist’s reconstruction shows what Pegasus volans — or, at least, the front half of it preserved in the fossil record — might have looked like in life, complete with guts that hang externally from the main body.

Despite new clues, this ancient fish has stumped scientists for centuries

Science News
Sep. 2024

a collage of five species of deep-sea comb jellyfish on a dark background

How jellyfish survive pressures that would crush you into oblivion

Science
June 2024

a leech attached to a leaf in a forest in Madagascar

Meet the world’s first known jumping leech … if you dare

Science
June 2024

a Cretaceous-period ant preserved in amber

Early ants’ antennae may have let them ‘talk’ using pheromones

Science
June 2024

dead sea urchins washed ashore on Réunion Island in the western Indian Ocean

Mysterious sea urchin plague is spreading through the world’s oceans

Science
May 2024

The brown alga Sporochnus dotyi reflects shimmering green and blue light when illuminated from above. CREDIT: Hiroshi Kawai

Why does this alga shimmer like peacock feathers?

Science
May 2024

On a flower, a cinnabar moth caterpillar (Tyria jacobaeae) demonstrates its defensive behavior: coiling into a tight ball

These caterpillars may anticipate wasp attacks using electric fields

Science
May 2024

a red squirrel on a city park bench

In medieval England, leprosy bounced between humans and squirrels

Science
May 2024

an adult Heliconius elevatus butterfly perches on a leaf in a forest

Striking Amazonian butterfly is result of ancient hybrid event

Science
Apr. 2024

misty Ozark mountains in Missouri

Satellite signals can measure a forest’s moisture—and its ability to survive

Science
Apr. 2024

a protestor against banning TikTok holds a sign outside the US capitol

Possible TikTok ban has U.S. science communicators on edge

Science
March 2024

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