News

  1. Quantum Physics

    Quantum fragility may help birds navigate

    Birds’ internal compasses may rely on the delicate nature of the quantum world.

    By Emily Conover
  2. Astronomy

    Possible perp found in mystery of Milky Way’s missing galaxy pals

    Billions of years of supernovas could explain why galaxies like the Milky Way have so few tiny companions and why those companions have so little mass.

    By Christopher Crockett
  3. Life

    Cities create accidental experiments in plant, animal evolution

    To look for evolution in human-scale time, pick a city and watch a lizard. Or some clover.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Animals

    Reptile scales share evolutionary origin with hair, feathers

    Hair, scales and feathers arose from same ancestral appendage.