News

  1. Space

    Supernova’s death throes revealed

    In archival images, astronomers see giant star’s activity in weeks before supernova.

    By Andrew Grant
  2. Earth

    Magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes Solomon Islands

    Temblor is the largest in a month of seismic activity on Australian-Pacific plate boundary.

    By Erin Wayman
  3. Health & Medicine

    Link between obesity and vitamin D clarified

    People carrying gene variants tied to weight are also prone to deficiency of the sun-derived nutrient, but not vice versa.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Animals

    Mole sniffs the world in stereo

    Nostrils of the common mole recognize slight differences in smells to steer it toward its food.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  5. Humans

    Earlier Neandertal demise suggested by redating

    Using an improved radiocarbon method, researchers challenge the notion that the species hung on in Iberia for millennia after modern humans arrived in Europe.