Hunting Mushrooms, and What Makes Some Glow in the Dark
By JOANNA KLEIN Scientists may have had more luck tracking down how some fungi glow than you may […]
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Ancient Horse DNA Shows Scythian Warriors Were Adept Domesticators
By KENNETH CHANG Modern genetic tools have provided new details of how domestication changes animals as they become […]
Neanderthals in California? Maybe So, Provocative Study Says
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A startling new report asserts that the first known Americans arrived much, much earlier […]
No Bones About It: Scientists Recover Ancient DNA From Cave ...
By GINA KOLATA With a new technique, German researchers isolated Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA from sediment alone, opening […]
A Very Hungry Caterpillar Eats Plastic Bags, Researchers Say
By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH Wax worms are able to break down the bonds in a popular synthetic polymer, […]
Lyrids in Southern Skies
Earth’s annual Lyrid meteor shower peaked before dawn on April 22nd, as our fair planet plowed through dust […]
Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims
By CARL ZIMMER If early humans smashed mastodon bones found in California in 1992, scientists will have to […]
Mt. Etna Lava Plume
Mt. Etna has been erupting for hundreds of thousands of years. Located in Sicily, Italy, the volcano produces […]
Some Surprising Dog Breeds Have Ancient American Heritage
By JAMES GORMAN A new study of 161 breeds traces some ancestry back to the Americas of 10,000 […]
That Ghostly, Glowing Light Above Canada? It’s Just Steve
By JACEY FORTIN Scientists are investigating a stream of hot, bright gas visible not far from the northern […]