Plumes From Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Hint That It Could Support ...
By KENNETH CHANG Data from the Cassini spacecraft suggest that hydrothermal vents could provide ingredients for microbes or […]
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Saber-Toothed Cats Paid a Stiff Price for Lunch
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Researchers analyzed tens of thousands of bones retrieved from the La Brea Tar Pits […]
A Lizard With Scales That Behave Like a Computer Simulation
By STEPH YIN Two mathematical models converge to illuminate the process through which an ocellated lizard’s scales repeatedly […]
A Dinosaur Cousin’s Crocodile Ankles Surprise Paleontologists
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR The features of 245-million-year-old Teleocrater fossils may help fill in our understanding of how […]
Valiant in Battle, These Ants Rescue Their Wounded
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR After attacking termites, ants of a species in sub-Saharan Africa retrieve the injured so that […]
Riddle of Why Hitler Didn’t Use Sarin Gas Remains Unsolved
By WILLIAM J. BROAD Theories abound as to why the deadly nerve agent was not used during World […]
A Lizard With Scales That Behave Like a Computer Simulation
By STEPH YIN Two mathematical models converge to illuminate the process through which an ocellated lizard’s scales repeatedly […]
Saber-Toothed Cats Paid a Stiff Price for Lunch
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Researchers analyzed tens of thousands of bones retrieved from the La Brea Tar Pits […]
How Ants Figured Out Farming Millions of Years Before Humans
By JOANNA KLEIN A new study traces the evolutionary history of ants throughout the Americas that cultivate fungus […]
In Ancient Guano, a Record of Penguin Disaster
By JAMES GORMAN Guano in lake sediment showed that an Antarctic penguin colony was devastated three times during […]