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Storms Reveal Iron Age Skeleton
A series of storms that hit Scotland’s Shetland Islands over the holidays revealed what archaeologists believe could be 2,000-year-old...
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A River Ran Through it (3.5 Billion Years Ago)
New astonishing pictures by the European Space Agency have revealed a 1,500km long and 7km wide river that once...
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Severe Droughts in Amazon Linked to Climate Change
An area in the Amazon twice the size of California is experiencing what scientists call a “megadrought.” The prolonged...
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Time for Science to Seize Political Power
In your wildest dreams, could you imagine a government that builds its policies on carefully gathered scientific evidence? One...
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‘Planetary Parks’ Could Protect Space Wilderness
It’s a wilderness out there in outer space. And as robotic surrogates set the stage for human footprints on...
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Global Warming Is Changing Our Daily Life in the U.S.
A special panel of scientists issued a report detailing the dozens of ways how climate change is already disrupting...
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Japan Plans World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm
Japan is moving away from reliance on nuclear power plants after the Fukushima disaster, and plans to plans to...
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A Supercomputer Fit to Dominate the Cosmos
It may not be self-aware (yet) but this computing monster is ready to take over the world. Well, at...
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Mathematicians Aim to Take Publishers Out of Publishing
Mathematicians plan to launch a series of free open-access journals that will host their peer-reviewed articles on the preprint...
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Quails Demonstrate Mastery of Camouflage to Protect Colorful Eggs
A quail egg is like a protein-filled, free lunch, waiting on the ground to be spotted—and devoured—by a predator....