Millennia of a rodentlike animal’s urine preserve crucial data that could help scientists understand early humans’ leap forward
By Elise Cutts in Scientific American
March 21, 2023
Extreme fires in the western United States and Southeast Asia influenced the local weather in ways that make fires and smoke pollution worse.
By Elise Cutts in Eos
March 8, 2023
New research shows diamonds might condense out of Neptune’s mantle, but not Uranus’, explaining a decades-old discrepancy.
By Elise Cutts in Sky and Telescope
March 8, 2023
The observation could offer an indirect look at large-scale magnetic fields in the universe
By Elise Cutts in Science News
March 6, 2023
How a humble meteorite redefined the future of astrobiology.
By Elise Cutts in Discover
February 23, 2023
Researchers say the dwarf planet’s strange and “clumpy” ring should be a moon instead.
By Elise Cutts in Astronomy
February 15, 2023
The finding could help explain why some massive algal blooms end
By Elise Cutts in Science News
February 8, 2023
Manganese oxides are thought to be a signature of atmospheric oxygen. But on the Red Planet, recent results suggest they might be more of a red herring.
By Elise Cutts in Eos
January 30, 2023
The finding reveals how echidnas survive in temperatures that should kill them
By Elise Cutts in Science News
January 18, 2023
To protect from deadly drought and make it on land, plants developed complicated inner plumbing
By Elise Cutts in Scientific American
January 18, 2023
A tiny binary system is not only small but also ancient, billions of years older than other such systems, which raises questions about its origins.
By Elise Cutts in Sky and Telescope
January 13, 2023
The extreme pressure in the deep sea stifles microbes’ appetite for organic carbon. This finding could have important implications for carbon budgets and geoengineering.
By Elise Cutts in Eos
January 11, 2023