News

  1. Climate

    2015 smashed heat records

    Spurred by global warming and a “super El Niño,” 2015 now ranks as the warmest year since record-keeping began in 1880.

    By Thomas Sumner
  2. Planetary Science

    Time running out on comet lander

    Philae’s days are numbered as temperatures on comet 67P drop and attempts to communicate with the lander fail.

    By Christopher Crockett
  3. Anthropology

    Attack 10,000 years ago is earliest known act of warfare

    Human skeletons unearthed in East Africa show signs of a roughly 10,000-year-old lethal raid.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Humans

    No fairy tale: Origins of some famous stories go back thousands of years

    Pairing folktales with ancient languages shows that at least a few folktales originated thousands of years ago.