‘Rust’ recounts humanity’s unending battle against corrosion, which each year costs the United States an estimated $437 billion — more than all natural disasters combined.
3-D designer reconstructs portraits of ancestors for the human family album.
The champagne-like fizz produced when a raindrop hits the ground may be responsible for the earthy aroma after a rainstorm.
Existing stone tool categories may hide more than they reveal. New methods for analyzing stone artifacts aim to better reconstruct how hominids interacted and moved across Africa, Asia and Europe.
Rogue planets may form as stars do, but on a smaller scale, or they may go forced out of orbit during planetary ping-pong. Researchers are scanning the skies for them.
A black hole weighing the same as 12 billion suns is the most massive one known in the early universe.
Rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase the amount of thermal radiation striking Earth’s surface.
Additives called emulsifiers that are used in ice cream and other foods weaken the intestines’ defenses against bacteria, causing inflammation in mice.
When beetles munch plants bearing their RNA, genes the bugs need to survive are turned off.
Newly discovered brain cells help monkeys predict whether a companion will cooperate.
A 2.8-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia raises questions about the origins and evolution of the human genus, Homo.
Taking the lead on salmon hunts may be postmenopausal killer whales’ way of sharing their ecological knowledge.
The Dawn spacecraft arrives at Ceres to begin a 14-month investigation of the dwarf planet.
Even if photons pass you by, you can still snatch a signal from their electromagnetic wake, physicists propose.
A hydrogen-sulfur compound under pressure may transport electrical current with no resistance at a record high temperature.
Mounting evidence suggests that BPS, a common chemical in plastics, may cause the same health effects as BPA.
The shrinking of the Tethys Ocean may have broken up the Pangaea supercontinent.
An exquisitely preserved 600-million-year-old fossil from China has cell types and a shape resembling sponges, thought to be among the first multicellular animals to evolve.
Not just a subspecies: A flashy, squeaky hummingbird should become its own species, ornithologists argue.
A bevy of newly discovered satellite galaxies around the Milky Way could help astronomers study how galaxies form and the nature of dark matter.
Limiting eating times improves heart function in fruit flies.
New observations confirm the presence of a liquid saltwater ocean beneath the surface of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede.
Busts on display in an Italian exhibit flesh out hominid skulls using the latest in 3-D reconstruction.
We don’t know the playful side of crocodiles perhaps only because we haven’t looked.
In 1965, researchers saw a nuclear-powered heart in the future.
Neandertals went extinct when Homo sapiens transformed wolves into hunting aids, author proposes.
