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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.

Archaeologists have found 188 medieval reliquaries during excavations at a square in Berlin. Some of them still contain human bones of people considered to be saints or holy.

In the 1970s, technological advances let scientists peer through stars’ atmospheres. Now, scientists can measure roiling gas in the stars themselves.

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in extinction.

Officials say they’ve eradicated northern giant hornets, nicknamed “murder hornets,” after years of tracking the invasive giant wasps in Washington state.

COVID-era telehealth laws made health care more accessible for rural patients, but telehealth might not be as easy to access next year.

Scientists investigating the frozen Lake Enigma in Antarctica discovered an ecosystem teeming with strange microbial communities.

Women with Stage 0 breast cancer who got biannual mammograms and delayed surgery for two years fared as well as those who got immediate surgery.

The declaration of a state of emergency in California over avian influenza comes within days of the first severe human case of bird flu in the U.S.

The Denmark Strait cataract is a sloping portion of the seafloor between Iceland and Greenland that funnels cold water from the Nordic Seas into the Irminger Sea, fueling Atlantic Ocean currents.