6,745 results
- Life
Archaeopteryx wore black
Microscopic structures in an iconic fossil feather suggest that it was the color of a crow.
- Humans
Neandertals’ mammoth building project
Stone Age people’s evolutionary cousins may have constructed earliest bone structures.
- Life
Giant beavers had hidden vocal talents
With air passageways in its skull like no other animal known, an extinct outsized rodent may have made sound all its own.
- Health & Medicine
Catching a Cancer
The official figure for the percentage of human cancers caused by viruses is around 20 percent — but most experts concede that number is largely an educated guess
- Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
Sticky graphene, dried-up coffee, a panda pregnancy test and more in this week’s news.
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Venus Unveiled
Spacecraft finds Earthy features on sister planet.
- Neuroscience
Hurt Blocker
The next big pain drug may soothe sensory firestorms without side effects.
- Life
Dinosaur-era feathers sealed in amber
The richest collection yet of primordial plumage preserves pigment and fine details found modern birds.
- Humans
Humans’ entry into Europe pushed earlier
Homo sapiens fossils from Italy and England point to an early arrival and a longer time living alongside Neandertals.
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- Psychology
Same face, different person
Photos of a stranger’s mug can look like many unfamiliar people to an observer, complicating facial recognition research.
- Chemistry
Unusual crystal patterns win chemistry Nobel
First rejected as impossible, the discovery that atoms can pack in subtly varied patterns forced revisions of fundamental concepts.
