News in Brief

  1. Earth

    Crack in Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf forks

    An 180-kilometer-long rift in Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf has forked into two branches, new satellite observations show.

    By Thomas Sumner
  2. Planetary Science

    Cassini’s ring dive offers first close-up of Saturn’s cloud tops

    Cassini has completed its first dive between Saturn and its rings. Along the way, it snapped stunning pics of the planet’s atmosphere.

    By Ashley Yeager
  3. Life

    How a mushroom gets its glow

    For the first time, biologists have pinpointed the compound that lights up in fungal bioluminescence.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Physics

    Gamma-ray evidence for dark matter weakens

    Excess gamma rays are still unexplained, but they might not come from dark matter.