News

  1. Paleontology

    Dinosaurs shrank continually into birds

    Steady miniaturization and rapidly changing skeletons transformed massive animals into today’s fliers.

    By Meghan Rosen
  2. Astronomy

    When looking for aliens, try finding their pollution

    Future telescopes may discover civilized aliens by detecting the industrial pollutants called fluorinated gases in exoplanet atmospheres.

    By Christopher Crockett
  3. Quantum Physics

    Birds’ turns match math of quantum matter

    Equations that describe superfluidity may explain how information about which way and when to turn spreads in a starling flock.

    By Ashley Yeager
  4. Earth

    Early life probably fell victim to massive space rocks

    Planet-sterilizing impacts probably snuffed out early life on Earth until around 4.3