Science Quickly

Cape Cod’s water is turning “pea-soup green”—and after decades of scientific detective work, we know why.

New research into weed reveals how a lemon-scented terpene can ease anxiety without reducing the high.

Deepfake images, a delayed spaceflight, the troubles with space junk and a blast from our past for your Monday review of science news.

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Doctors are starting to prescribe vegetables or entire meals to ward off disease.

Amid Earth’s fourth global coral bleaching event, a leading expert says tackling climate change is the key to fighting back.

Ahead of a project to spray carbon dioxide into jungle plots, researchers contemplate what its results might signal about the forest’s future.

After years of delay, researchers are ready to inject carbon dioxide into jungle plots.

Years in the making, a project in the Amazon rain forest is finally set to determine whether a rise in carbon dioxide could save one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.

Cows and at least one person in the U.S. have been sickened by avian influenza. We asked experts about the risk to humans.

Volcano detectives use artificial intelligence to sleuth out ancient secrets in Alaska. 

As hard as it is to study these denizens of the deep, researchers have found some intriguing evidence to support the idea that “sperm whale culture” exists.