News

  1. Animals

    Living Fossil: DNA puts rodent in family that’s not extinct after all

    The Laotian rock rat, which is very much alive, belongs to a rodent family that supposedly vanished 11 million years ago.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Health & Medicine

    Inherited Burden? Early menarche in moms tied to obesity in kids

    Women who reach puberty at an early age are more likely to have children who are overweight.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Planetary Science

    In the Zone: Extrasolar planet with the potential for life

    Astronomers this week announced that they had found Earth's closest known analog outside the solar system, an object with an average temperature that may allow water to be liquid on its surface.