News

  1. Climate

    Smoke from Australia’s intense fires in 2019 and 2020 damaged the ozone layer

    Massive fires like those that raged in Australia in 2019–2020 can eat away at Earth’s protective ozone layer, researchers find.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  2. Particle Physics

    How light from black holes is narrowing the search for axions

    The orientation of light waves from the region around galaxy M87’s central black hole rules out the existence of axions of a certain mass.

    By Liz Kruesi
  3. Archaeology

    Ancient seafarers built the Mediterranean’s largest known sacred pool

    The Olympic-sized pool, once thought to be an artificial inner harbor, helped Phoenicians track the stars and their gods, excavations reveal.