The Hidden History Baked Into a Cooking Pot
Melting Glaciers Are Filling Unstable Lakes. And They’re Growing.
Did Something Burp? It Was an Earthquake
How Do You Solve a Moon Mystery? Fire a Laser at It
The Romans Called it ‘Alexandrian Glass.’ Where Was It Really From?
Ancient Rome Was Teetering. Then a Volcano Erupted 6,000 Miles Away.
Long Limbs Helped Propel T. Rex Up the Dinosaur Food Chain
The Invasion of Antarctica Begins With Mussels
Microbes Point the Way to Shipwrecks
They’re Stealthy at Sea, but They Can’t Hide From the Albatross
…and 10+ others
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”
A Glacier in Pakistan Surges with Clocklike Regularity
A Megaflood-Powered Mile-High Waterfall Refilled the Mediterranean
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?
A massive experiment in Taiwan aims to reveal landslides’ surprising effect on the climate
‘Mystery’ volcano that cooled the ancient world traced to El Salvador
…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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Tropical Cyclones Suppress Rainfall in Their Wakes
Decrease in Lightning Recorded over the Lower 48
Wildfires Trigger Long-Term Permafrost Thawing
Storms Interact but Rarely Merge into Bigger Tempests
Experiments Reveal How Permafrost Carbon Becomes Carbon Dioxide
Asteroid Impact, Not Volcanism, Likely Spelled Dinosaurs’ End
Ghostly Particles from the Sun Confirm Nuclear Fusion
Larger Waves in Store as the Planet Warms
Chicxulub Impact Crater Hosted a Long-Lived Hydrothermal System
Water Ice Lurks in Young—but Not Too Young—Lunar Craters
Geology and Chemistry Drive Animal Migration in the Serengeti
As the Planet Warms, Intense Storms Become More Common
…and 100+ 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
