News

  1. Life

    By leaking light, squid hides in plain sight

    Glass squid camouflage their eyes with wonderfully inefficient bioluminescence.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Earth

    Spy satellites reveal early start to Antarctic ice shelf collapse

    Declassified spy satellite images reveal that Antarctica’s Larsen B ice shelf began destabilizing decades earlier than previously thought.

    By Thomas Sumner
  3. Quantum Physics

    Quantum weirdness survives space travel

    Quantum weirdness travels from Earth to space and back again.

    By Emily Conover
  4. Animals

    Pygmy blue whales deepen their moans

    Sri Lankan pygmy blue whales are tweaking their calls — making one part deeper and keeping another part the same — but scientists can’t say why.