Science

Every summer, the “land down under” does a little dance: It slowly shifts 1 millimeter to the northwest and dips down 2 to 3 millimeters on its northwestern side. When […]

No chapter of Arctic history is more mysterious than the disappearance of these Norse settlements sometime in the 15th century. Theories for the colony’s failure have included everything from sinister […]

Imagine spending your whole life seeing the world in black and white, and then seeing a vase of roses in full color for the first time. That’s kind of what […]

Human hunters may be making birds smarter by inadvertently shooting those with smaller brains. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which finds that hunting may be exerting a powerful […]

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens and the shades of evening […]

Run-down cells, known as senescent cells, may make us old. A new study of mice suggests that they also drive another scourge of our advancing years—atherosclerosis, the buildup of fatty […]

In January, astronomers announced evidence for Planet Nine, a new giant planet, based on the way it would shepherd six icy worlds into clustered orbits on the other side of […]

Not only did a separate species appear between 13,000 and 17,000 years ago, but that it was the hybrid offspring of the steppe bison—whose descendants include today’s American bison—and another […]

The 9-month-old patent battle over CRISPR, a novel genome-editing tool that could have immense commercial value, has taken two surprising twists. Last week, attorneys for the Broad Institute in Cambridge, […]