A New Kind of Ice That Bends Like a Noodle Without Breaking
Sharks Almost Went the Way of the Dinosaurs 19 Million Years Ago
Why Aren’t More Moon Craters Named for Women?
Are You Confused by Scientific Jargon? So Are Scientists
Million-Year-Old DNA Rewrites the Mammoth Family Tree
Hear the Sound of a Seashell Horn Found in an Ancient French Cave
Pythons Slithered Through Europe Before Coiling Around the World
NASA Launched a Rocket 54 Years Ago. Has It Finally Come Home?
A Record of Horseback Riding, Written in Bone and Teeth
Footprints Mark a Toddler’s Perilous Prehistoric Journey
The Dire Wolf Might Have Prowled Asia, Fossil Suggests
The Hidden History Baked Into a Cooking Pot
Melting Glaciers Are Filling Unstable Lakes. And They’re Growing.
…and 25+ others
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
Colorful Asteroids Near Neptune Reveal a Solar System Conundrum
Antarctic Glacier’s Breakup Is Controlled by Seafloor Topography
Tiny Worms Survive Forces 400,000 Times Stronger Than Gravity on Earth
Gunshot Sensors Pinpoint Destructive “Fish Bombs”
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?
Spacecraft spots asteroid debris responsible for spectacular meteor shower
What’s creating thousands of craters off the California coast?
…and 45+ others
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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Thousands of Stars View Earth as a Transiting Exoplanet
A Remarkably Constant History of Meteorite Strikes
Gap in Exoplanet Size Shifts with Age
Species of Feces Help Phytoplankton Feed Itself
Record-Setting Flare Spotted on the Nearest Star to the Sun
Laser Flashes Shed Light on a Changing Arctic
The Who, What, When, Where, and Why of the Polar Vortex
Ocean Sensors Record Rare Triple Tsunami near New Zealand
Rare Wintertime Thunderstorms Recorded over the U.S. Gulf Coast
Arctic Lightning Up 300% in One 11-Year Study
A Dip in Atmospheric Carbon May Have Facilitated Dinosaur Dispersal
Vicuña Poop Nourishes “Dung Gardens” High in the Andes
…and 140+ others
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
