Scientists Have a New Explanation for Mysterious Sand Spikes
Vikings Were in the Americas Exactly 1,000 Years Ago
How Maori Arrival in New Zealand Was Frozen in Antarctic Ice
Deflecting an Asteroid Before It Hits Earth May Take Multiple Bumps
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
…and 30+ others
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
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
‘
Soil Texture Affects How Carbon Is Stored Underground
Invasive Plants and Climate Change Will Alter Desert Landscapes
Earthquakes Ripple Through 3D Printed Models of Los Angeles
A Global Map of Human Sewage in Coastal Ecosystems
Ocean Terrain and the Engineering Challenges for Offshore Wind Farms
Inland Mangroves Are Relics of the Past’s Higher Sea Levels
Academic Citations Evolve to Include Indigenous Oral Teachings
An Explanation, at Last, for Mysterious “Zen Stones”
Thirsty Plants Pull Water from Bedrock
Chinese Architecture Evolved with Changes in Snowfall
Ejecta Discovered Near Site of Ancient Meteorite Impact
…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
Katherine Kornei, Ph.D. 