News

  1. Psychology

    Babies’ flexible squeals may enable them to talk later

    Language evolution might have fed off infants’ ability to use certain sounds to express various emotions.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Earth

    In Antarctica, melting may beget ice

    Disintegration of floating glaciers could be responsible for freezing of seawater.

    By Erin Wayman
  3. Physics

    Sound cloaks enter the third dimension

    Concept could lead to sonar-defeating submarines or noise-cancelling highway barriers.

    By Andrew Grant
  4. Earth

    Fungi pull carbon into northern forest soils

    Organisms living on tree roots do the lion’s share of sequestering carbon.

    By Meghan Rosen
  5. Earth

    Kansas was unbearably hot 270 million years ago

    Temperatures soared to nearly 74 degrees Celsius, which no plants or animals could endure.