Shigellosis leads to around 242,000 antimicrobial resistant infections in the United States every year. But an oral vaccine has demonstrated great efficacy in reducing infections of the strain most dominant in the country.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oral-vaccine-bacterial-diarrhea

During an eruption, occasional lava fountains aren’t unusual. But it’s rare to see repeated fountains — distinct bursts separated by minutes to weeks — during a single eruption.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/kilauea-why-volcanoes-spew-fountains

What if cells that normally pass along visual signals could detect light? Gene therapy and special goggles helped some blind patients spot objects or find doorways. Reading words and recognizing faces remain out of reach.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gene-therapy-cells-light-blind-vision

Earthquakes frequently trigger rock falls. Now there’s solid evidence marsquakes can send boulders tumbling, too.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mars-quakes-falling-boulders

The idea that caregiving kills has dominated scientific discourse. The reality is more nuanced.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/caregiving-kills-nuance-benefit

The fossil of Herugavialis is missing the tip of its snout, not unlike the Great Sphinx with whom it shares its rocky origins.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/extinct-crocodilian-rocks-great-sphinx

Kagan and Soai’s discoveries have changed how chemicals, particularly drugs, are manufactured. The Nobel Prize in 2021 was also awarded for improvements in enantiomer production — then, for making the process more environmentally friendly.
www.sciencenews.org/article/chem...

Because nature favors one mirror image over the other, manufacturing the wrong kind can ruin the effects of drugs and other chemical products — and sometimes even cause harm. www.sciencenews.org/article/refl...

Organic chemical reactions in the lab often produce what are known as enantiomers: two versions of a single molecule, each the flipped mirror image of the other. This property in molecules is called chirality. www.sciencenews.org/article/alie...

In A Mother’s Brain, neuroscientist Susana Carmona guides readers through matrescence.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mommy-brain-neuroscience-book

To explore how important a voice is, Science News reporter Laura Sanders went a day without talking. She discovered something unexpected. Hear about it in Episode 1 of the second season of The Deep End: “Talk to Me.”
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/deep-end-voice-more-sound-identity

If a recent hint of dark matter is real, it would rewrite physics. And scientists are already trying to read the outline of that new story’s plot.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dark-matter-supersymmetry-higgsino

With its large body and wide-gaped bill, the bare-throated bellbird has the anatomical hardware to unleash a record-setting call. Hear it here ⬇️
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/worlds-loudest-bird-jackhammer-volume

A dead star’s wreckage may be the birthplace of a new planet.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/baby-planet-from-dead-star-phoenix

And in 2023, IceCube mapped the Milky Way using neutrinos rather than light. www.sciencenews.org/article/neut...