News

  1. Physics

    Probe bares heart of X-ray inferno

    Physicists have snapped the first real-time pictures of the exploding core of the world's most powerful X-ray source other than a nuclear bomb.

    By Peter Weiss
  2. Earth

    Climate Storm: Kyoto pact is confirmed, but conflict continues

    Controversy flared over the link between climate change and increasing storm activity at the first international climate change meeting since the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol was assured.

    By David Shiga
  3. Ecosystems

    Fallout Feast: Vent crabs survive on victims of plume

    Researchers in Taiwan propose an explanation for how so many crabs can survive at shallow-water hydrothermal vents.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Anthropology

    Suddenly Civilized: New finds push back Americas’ first society

    The earliest known civilization in the Americas appears to have emerged about 5,000 years ago in what's now Peru.