A 3.2 Million-Year-Old Mystery: Did Lucy Fall From a Tree?
By CARL ZIMMER A team of scientists recently concluded that Lucy, a hominid whose skeleton was discovered in […]
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The Big Search to Find Out Where Dogs Come From
By JAMES GORMAN With a major study of ancient bones and DNA, scientists hope to determine where and […]
Abell 370: Galaxy Cluster Gravitational Lens
What is that strange arc? While imaging the cluster of galaxies Abell 370, astronomers had noted an unusual […]
A Summer Evening in Texas Isn’t Complete Without a Bat ...
By JOANNA KLEIN Every night, millions of bats emerge in the middle of the state, including more than […]
The Accidental Plagiarist in All of Us
By STEPH YIN To differing degrees, we’ve all been guilty of cryptomnesia, the process of claiming an original […]
A ‘Skylight’ Made From Two Mirrors
By JOANNA KLEIN The periscope, commonly found in submarines and spy novels, was an innovative solution to a […]
Meet Octobot: Squishy, Adorable and Revolutionary
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR The world’s first soft-bodied fully autonomous robot, created by Harvard researchers, has eight arms […]
No Escape From Black Holes? Stephen Hawking Points to a ...
By DENNIS OVERBYE New calculations by Dr. Hawking and other researchers suggest that essential properties of whatever falls […]
Life Expectancy Falls by 5 Years for Syrian Men, New ...
By SABRINA TAVERNISE Mortality rates had improved in recent decades, but years of war knocked the life expectancy […]
Closest Star has Potentially Habitable Planet
The star closest to the Sun has a planet similar to the Earth. As announced yesterday, recent observations […]