When it comes to finding fossils of very ancient microbial life — whether on Earth or on other worlds, such as Mars — the odds…
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Under a White SkyElizabeth KolbertCrown, $28 In 1900, the city of Chicago completed a 45-kilometer-long canal that altered the hydrology of two-thirds of the United…
A new slow-motion video offers the best view yet of the split-second collision of electric currents that creates a flash of lightning. The video captures…
Toad talk Guttural toads on islands in the Indian Ocean have shrunken limbs and bodies that may be evidence that “island dwarfism” can evolve quickly,…
When the news broke in April 2019 that scientists had restored neurological functions in the brains of dead pigs, I was fascinated — and troubled.…
Vaccine rollout in the United States has been undeniably slow. And while we wait, worrisome new coronavirus variants are emerging, heightening the urgency to control…
The paucity of Lyme disease cases in the southern United States may be partly due to what black-legged ticks in southern locales bite. Although black-legged…
Two tightly packed families of exoplanets are pushing the boundaries of what a planetary system can look like. New studies of the makeup of worlds…
Close to a half million U.S. children didn’t get tested for lead in the first half of 2020. Nearly 10,000 of those children may have…
Hidden beneath the leaf litter of a northern Malagasy forest lives a chameleon so slight that it could tumble off the tip of your finger.…