News

  1. Anthropology

    Fossil teeth push the human-Neandertal split back to about 1 million years ago

    A study of fossilized teeth shifts the age of the last common ancestor between Neandertals and humans.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Planetary Science

    China’s lunar rover may have found minerals from the moon’s mantle

    The Chang’e-4 mission spotted material on the lunar surface that appears to contain bits originating from the moon’s interior.

    By Maria Temming
  3. Genetics

    Tweaking one gene with CRISPR switched the way a snail shell spirals

    The first gene-edited snails confirm which gene is responsible for the direction of the shell’s spiral.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  4. Planetary Science

    Apollo-era moonquakes reveal that the moon may be tectonically active

    Moonquakes recorded decades ago suggest the moon is tectonically active.