News

  1. Earth

    Earth’s mantle is cooling faster than expected

    The thinning of newly formed oceanic crust suggests that Earth’s mantle is cooling much faster than previously thought.

    By Thomas Sumner
  2. Ecosystems

    Oyster deaths linked to ‘atmospheric rivers’

    Atmospheric rivers bring strong storms that could have been behind a 2011 California oyster die-off.

    By Laurel Hamers
  3. Health & Medicine

    Number of teens who report doing drugs falls in 2016

    Drug use is down among teens, survey finds.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Earth

    Fossil microbes show how some life bounced back after dino-killing impact

    Pioneering microbes colonized the waters above the Chicxulub crater within hundreds of years following the impact, new research shows.