Life
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Paleontology
Fossil sheds light on early primates
Partial skeleton near root of monkey, ape and human line.
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- Paleontology
Lizard king thrived in ancient warm climate
The herbivorous reptile of 40 million years ago was around 2 meters long.
- Animals
Frog long thought extinct rediscovered in Israel
Hula painted frog turns out to be the only surviving member of an extinct genus.
- Life
Genes weakly linked to education level
A search of more than 2 million DNA locations in more than 125,000 people finds a weak, and perhaps dubious, association with schooling.
- Animals
Two books explore the weirdest life on Earth
Zombie Birds, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals by Becky Crew and Weird Life by David Toomey.
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- Paleontology
Fossil muddies the origin of birds
New specimen may be a feathered dinosaur — or the earliest avian yet discovered
- Life
View to a cell
In 2013, Science News published a photo essay highlighting advances in microscopy that illuminate life within us, work that has now earned three researchers the 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
- Life
Response to bacterial infection depends on time of day
Mice that got Salmonella in the evening fared better than those given the microbe in the morning.
- Life
Microbes at home in your gut may also be influencing your brain
When your gut grumbles or growls, it’s speaking to your brain. And it’s a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Evolution favors guts that can tell a brain what they want. So it’s not surprising that the brain and the gut should have a reliable communications connection. But suppose the gut’s messaging system was hacked by […]
