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  1. Life

    A more fearsome saber-toothed cat

    Analyses of fossils reveal that a third, newly recognized type of saber-toothed cat — one that killed by biting large chunks of flesh from its victim instead of biting its neck and slashing the major blood vessels there —roamed the Americas about a million years ago.

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  2. Paleontology

    How pterosaurs took flight

    Extinct flying reptiles known as pterosaurs may have taken to the air with a technique akin to leapfrogging, new research suggests.

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  3. Space

    More problems with Hubble

    Hubble’s resurrection is suspended while engineers examine two anomalies.

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  4. Math

    Counting how votes count

    A rational person will vote, economists show, as an act of altruism.