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We’re probably undervaluing healthy lakes and rivers

Clean water legislation often doesn’t seem like a good deal on paper. Here’s why that may be misleading.

By Laurel Hamers | 8:00am, October 14, 2018

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Ancestry

News in Brief | Ancestry

Meet the first known child of a Neandertal and a Denisovan

By Tina Hesman Saey | 1:00pm, August 22, 2018

News | Ancestry

The ‘language gene’ didn’t give humans a big leg up in evolution

By Tina Hesman Saey | 7:00am, August 03, 2018

Experiences | Ancestry

What I actually learned about my family after trying 5 DNA ancestry tests

By Tina Hesman Saey | 2:41pm, June 13, 2018
Anthropology

News | Anthropology

The way hunter-gatherers share food shows how cooperation evolved

By Bruce Bower | 1:31pm, September 21, 2018

News in Brief | Anthropology

Butchered bird bones put humans in Madagascar 10,500 years ago

By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, September 12, 2018

News in Brief | Anthropology

German skeletons hint that medieval warrior groups recruited from afar

By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, September 05, 2018
Archaeology

50 Years Ago | Archaeology

50 years ago, a 550-year-old seed sprouted

By Tina Hesman Saey | 7:00am, October 10, 2018

News | Archaeology

Laser mapping shows the surprising complexity of the Maya civilization

By Bruce Bower | 2:22pm, September 27, 2018

News | Archaeology

This South African cave stone may bear the world’s oldest drawing

By Bruce Bower | 1:00pm, September 12, 2018
History of Science

Film | History of Science

The Neil Armstrong biopic ‘First Man’ captures early spaceflight's terror

By Lisa Grossman | 3:45pm, October 12, 2018

Reviews & Previews | History of Science

‘Sawbones’ invites readers to laugh at the bizarre history of medicine

By Mike Denison | 7:00am, October 09, 2018

Context | History of Science

Before his early death, Riemann freed geometry from Euclidean prejudices

By Tom Siegfried | 7:00am, September 28, 2018
Human Evolution

News in Brief | Human Evolution

A 90,000-year-old bone knife hints special tools appeared early in Africa

By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, October 03, 2018

News | Human Evolution

Stone tools put early hominids in China 2.1 million years ago

By Bruce Bower | 1:33pm, July 11, 2018

News | Human Evolution

Foot fossil pegs hominid kids as upright walkers 3.3 million years ago

By Bruce Bower | 2:50pm, July 04, 2018
Language

News | Language

Huge ‘word gap’ holding back low-income children may not exist after all

By Bruce Bower | 5:30am, September 04, 2018

News | Language

The window for learning a language may stay open surprisingly long

By Bruce Bower | 11:02am, May 11, 2018

News in Brief | Language

The southern drawl gets deconstructed

By Rachel Ehrenberg | 3:14pm, June 30, 2017
Networks

The List | Networks

Ask AI: How not to kill online conversations

By Maria Temming | 9:00am, January 03, 2018

The Science Life | Networks

Balloons will broadcast the 2017 solar eclipse live from on high

By Lisa Grossman | 1:30pm, July 26, 2017

Feature | Networks

Big biological datasets map life's networks

By Laurel Hamers | 10:00am, October 19, 2016
Psychology

Feature | Psychology

Shahzeen Attari explores the psychology of saving the planet

By Bruce Bower | 8:35am, September 26, 2018

Science & the Public | Psychology

‘Replication crisis’ spurs reforms in how science studies are done

By Bruce Bower | 11:00am, August 27, 2018

News | Psychology

Children may be especially vulnerable to peer pressure from robots

By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, August 15, 2018
Science & Society

News | Science & Society

Genealogy databases could reveal the identity of most Americans

By Tina Hesman Saey | 4:12pm, October 12, 2018

News in Brief | Science & Society

The economics of climate change and tech innovation win U.S. pair a Nobel

By Bruce Bower | 12:09pm, October 08, 2018

Science Ticker | Science & Society

Physicist Leon Lederman, renowned for his subatomic particle work, has died

By Emily Conover | 5:17pm, October 03, 2018

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