News

  1. Planetary Science

    Different moon rocks tell different tales about a long-ago bombardment

    Prior moon rock samples, including from Apollo, seem heavily influenced by one impact. The farside samples tweak the story.

    By Lisa Grossman
  2. Science & Society

    The golden age of language was a few thousand years ago

    A few millennia ago, people worldwide may have spoken or signed up to 10 times as many languages as they do today.

    By Sujata Gupta
  3. Animals

    Watch an orca ram into a sunfish so hard it explodes

    This strategy expands orcas’ already broad repertoire for dispatching different types of prey.

    By Maria Temming
  4. Paleontology

    A rare 3-D snake fossil is ssspilling sssecrets of its unusual lifestyle

    A new snake’s unique head anatomy suggests early snakes were even more diverse than thought.