Meet Luca, the Ancestor of All Living Things
By NICHOLAS WADE A single-cell, bacterium-like organism clinging to volcanic sea vents may have been the forebear of […]
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A Fish Outlived the Dinosaurs. Can It Outlast a Dam?
By JOANNA KLEIN The pallid sturgeon is threatened because it can no longer travel far enough on the […]
M2 9: Wings of a Butterfly Nebula
Are stars better appreciated for their art after they die? Actually, stars usually create their most artistic displays […]
Summer Planets and Milky Way
Lights sprawl toward the horizon in this night skyscape from Uludag National Park, Bursa Province, Turkey, planet Earth. […]
Galaxy Cluster Abell S1063 and Beyond
Some 4 billion light-years away, galaxies of massive Abell S1063 cluster near the center of this sharp Hubble […]
In Africa, Birds and Humans Form a Unique Honey Hunting ...
By NATALIE ANGIER Tribesmen and honeyguides share an ancient pact and communicate in trills and grunts, scientists report. […]
Continents Split Up at the Same Speed Finger Nails Grow. ...
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR As the supercontinent Pangea broke apart, its pieces entered phases where they accelerated to […]
Falcon 9: Launch and Landing
Shortly after midnight on July 18 a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at […]
Two’s Company, Three’s a Lichen?
By STEPH YIN New research challenges the one fungus-one alga paradigm of how lichens form. Published: July 22, […]
Facebook Moves One Step Closer to Light-Based Wireless Communication
By STEPH YIN Researchers from Facebook’s Connectivity Lab have created a new light detector for receiving communication signals […]