News

  1. Animals

    China trumps Near East for signs of most ancient farm cats

    Earliest evidence found for grain as a force in feline domestication.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Health & Medicine

    Dog dust may benefit infant immune systems

    Microbes from pet-owning houses protected mice against allergy, infection.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Archaeology

    Easter Island’s farmers cultivated social resilience, not collapse

    A Polynesian society often presumed to have self-destructed shows signs of having carried on instead.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Climate

    Tornado intensity climbs in the United States

    Larger paths of destruction may be tied to climate change.

    By Meghan Rosen
  5. Life

    Animal origins shift to comb jellies

    Genetic data confirm the marine predators have more ancient origin than simpler sponges.