News

  1. Climate

    Cultivation changed monsoon in Asia

    The loss of forests in India, China during the 1700s led to a decline in monsoon precipitation.

    By Sid Perkins
  2. Space

    Astrometry nabs an exoplanet

    long-proposed method of searching for extrasolar planets has finally discovered one — a body six times heavier than Jupiter that orbits a dwarf star 20 light-years from Earth.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Tech

    Earliest known sound recordings revealed

    Researchers unveil imprints made 20 years before Edison invented phonograph.

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Life

    Phony fighters discovered among fig wasps

    A newly discovered species of fig wasp has a fraction of dishonest guys with big mouthparts.