News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Monkey brains sensitive to others’ flubs

    Some of the brain’s nerve cells are programmed to light up only upon witnessing another’s error.

    By Laura Sanders
  2. Planetary Science

    Curiosity lands safely on Mars

    Lowered by sky crane onto the surface, NASA rover prepares to look for signs that life could have evolved on the Red Planet.

    By Nadia Drake
  3. Earth

    Extreme hot spells rising

    Analyzing six decades of temperature records reveals inexorable warming and increasing episodes of extreme heat.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Earth

    Greenland enters melt mode

    This year’s record-breaking island-wide thaw punctuates an ongoing warming trend.

    By Alexandra Witze
  5. Life

    How the elephant gets its infrasound

    Just blowing air through a pachyderm’s larynx produces fundamental elements of the mysterious rumblings that send messages too low for people to hear.