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Historic Shipwreck Keeps Moving, Revealing Dangerous Underwater Mudflows

Made-Up Sounds Convey Meaning across Cultures

Giant Mud Volcano Reveals Its Powerful Explosive Secrets

A Tsunami Likely Hurled Huge Rocks onto a Tiny Island

Towering Sequoias Are Even Bigger Than Thought, Laser Scans Suggest

Faraway Magma Reservoirs Complicate Volcano Monitoring

Red Stalagmites Reveal Glimpses of the Past

Volcanic Eruptions Detected from Space

Antarctica’s Ice Shelves Get a Bounce from Ephemeral Lakes

Humpback Whale Calls Remain Constant over Decades

Plants That Lived on Mount Everest Rediscovered in Forgotten Lab Collection

Signs of Pinochet’s coup spotted in Chilean tree rings

‘False’ tree rings could provide a new record of long-ago hurricanes

Scientists determine the age of one of Africa’s most famous trees

The Maya built the Western Hemisphere’s first water filtration system

After an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, ocean microbes helped life rebound

Giant waves of sand are moving on Mars

Earthquakes trigger landslides. Can landslides also trigger earthquakes?

World’s loudest bands create seismic waves

‘Dark’ lunar eclipse points to medieval volcanic eruptions

No star, no problem: Radioactivity could make otherwise frozen planets habitable

Minke whales are struggling to communicate over the din of ocean noise

What’s it like to install a weather station at the top of the world?

…and 45+ others

On Blueprinting Earth’s Ecosystems

A Commuter Ferry Built Like a Racing Boat

Mangrove forests expand and contract with a lunar cycle

Passing through the Milky Way’s arms may have helped form Earth’s solid ground

The discovery of the Kuiper Belt revamped our view of the solar system

Asteroid impacts might have created some of Mars’ sand

Only Two States Have Passed ‘Right to Garden’ Laws. Will Others Follow?

This Antioxidant May Provide a Key Link Between Regenerative Agriculture and Human Health

Volcano Patrol

The Massive Work That Goes Into Remodeling an Old Aircraft Carrier

New Aluminum ‘Foam’ Makes Trains Stronger, Lighter, and Safer

The French School Where Panama Canal Pilots Train in Cute Little Ships

Life After War

A Professor’s DIY Spacesuit

Spark of Life

Supernovas Close to Home

Banking on Hope

To Eat, or Not to Eat, Science Has an Answer

A DNA Analyzer that Fits in Your Pocket

Random Acts of Transaction

Hubble’s Greatest Hits

Beneath the Moon’s Two Faces

20 Things You Didn’t Know About Galaxies

Killer Apertures

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Impact Crater off the African Coast May Be Linked to Chicxulub

Alaskan Glaciers Advance and Retreat in Satellite Imagery

Volcanic Winters Ushered in the Jurassic Reign of the Dinosaurs

Community Scientists Recover Micrometeorites from Lake Michigan

Precession Helped Drive Glacial Cycles in the Pleistocene

Zhurong Rover Spots Evidence of Recent Liquid Water on Mars

Chinese-Led Solar Research Is Looking Bright

Pluto’s Surface Was Recently Sculpted by Icy Volcanism

Impact Structure Hidden Under Arctic Ice Dates to the Paleocene

Magma Lingers at Different Depths on the Basis of Its Water Content

Saturn’s Powerful Winds Explain Changes in the Length of Its Day

…and 175+ others

Telescope Operators

Our Galactic Neighborhood

Big Island Astronomy

Mobius Strips Made of Light for the First Time

Quantum Cryptography Goes a Long Way

Proteins as Shock Absorbers

Emptiness Constrains the Universe

…and 30+ others

Physicists get a surprise when watching quasicrystals grow

Carbon nanotubes bring aircraft manufacturing out of the oven

Physicists generate electrical currents from noise

Acoustic topological insulator could hide submarines

Virus mapped in 3D using X-ray pulses

Fractal-like honeycombs take the strain

Nuclear spins control electrical currents

Carbonaceous ‘cosmic barometer’ reveals universe’s history

Optical tweezers grab nanometre-sized objects