Great AdaptationsKenneth CataniaPrinceton Univ., $27.95 Neurobiologist Kenneth Catania’s passion for scrutinizing odd animal adaptations all started with a creature with a 22-point star on its…
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Sound has a speed limit. Under normal circumstances, its waves can travel no faster than about 36 kilometers per second, physicists propose October 9 in…
Warnings from the wells — Science News, October 10, 1970 Seismologists are studying ways to predict the occurrence of earthquakes…. One possibility … is to…
Imagine a police officer charging a man with disorderly conduct and issuing a citation for him to appear in court. The man stuffs the slip…
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx arrived at near-Earth asteroid Bennu, scientists were dismayed to find a surface covered with hazardous-looking boulders. But new research suggests that those…
The retreat of North America’s ice sheets in the latter years of the last ice age may have begun with “catastrophic” losses of ice into…
Neandertal babies had chests shaped like short, deep barrels and spines that curved inward more than those of humans, a build that until now was…
Turning a bacterial defense mechanism into one of the most powerful tools in genetics has earned Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier the Nobel Prize in…
Attacked from behind and at times dismembered, the fallen residents of an ancient Iberian village add to evidence that prehistoric Europe was a violent place.…
Research that unveiled the most mysterious objects in the cosmos has garnered science’s highest honor. Three scientists who cemented the reality of black holes have…