News

  1. Humans

    Shelters date to Stone Age

    Middle Eastern foragers inhabited dwellings for months at a time around 20,000 years ago.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Life

    Old-fashioned fish regrow fins

    Fish on an ancient line can regenerate lost limbs with newt-like flair, suggesting that ability was shared among ancient ancestors.

    By Susan Milius

  3. Science News at the 2012 AAAS meeting

    A round-up of Science News coverage of the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held February 16–20, 2012 in Vancouver, Canada.

    By Science News
  4. Life

    The bloom isn’t off this ancient plant

    Using fruit found in Siberia’s permafrost, scientists grow oldest flowering specimen ever produced from preserved tissue.